[ale] Virtualization recommendations

[JD]

Running Asterisk in a VM requires special consideration to avoid
real-time timing issues. I think you'll want to do a little research,
but I've seen presentations about using Proxmox with openvz with success
at AAUG (Asterisk UG). There were some specific settings to make it work
acceptably.  Any HVM solution probably has overhead that should be
avoided.  For running a single instance, this may not matter, but if you
want to run 3-20 per server, you'll want to read more.
http://atlaug.com/drupal/





On 06/09/2011 01:57 PM, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> Greg:
> 
> I would recommend KVM on Ubuntu 10.04LTS.  There is some nice documentation on getting the host system going as well as configuration files in place.  However, I will also warn it is more CLI oriented than GUI unless you use something like virt-manager or similar.
> 
> The Ubuntu documentation can be found at 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/KVM
> 
> which should get you started.  As for FreeNAS and Asterisk, that is another thread for discussion with others. ;-)
> 
> HTH and FWIW.  Also to note I receive the ALE email list in Digest format, so pardon any delays in responding in advance.
> 
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> ----- Greg Clifton <gccfof5 at gmail.com> wrote: -----
>>
>> Along the lines of John Heim's OP, I am also interested in "dipping my
>> toe"
>> into virtualization for the first time. I have a Dell SC440 system
>> with
>> Core2Duo CPU, so I have hardware virt support. What I would like to do
>> is
>> set up a NAS with FreeNAS and a PBXIF Asterisk instances on this
>> machine. My
>> question is should I use KVM, ZEN, ProxMox, etc? What is easiest to
>> set
>> up/administer? What is most reliable? Recommendations appreciated.
>>
>> Greg Clifton
>