Anyone here ever used a virtual machine engine like virtualbox to run a node or many node from a computer?
I ask cause at my club repeater we have a computer that is pretty good (dual 2.8 ghz cpu with 4 gig ram running windows 7
and we have some software running on it.
And i really cant switch this computer to linux.
so if I run the acid distro from a virtual machine and link the USB uri to that machine (wich is not too simple but doable) I think I would be able to run the app_rpt software while keeping the win 7 machine running smooth…
I’ve attempted it using the ACID distro under KVM, but it failed miserably. I couldn’t get the URI to communicate to the virtual machine, but it may have been my own error, so YMMV
If you try it out and it works let us know as I would still like to consider virtualizing mine as well…
Anyone here ever used a virtual machine engine like virtualbox to run a node or many node from a computer?
I ask cause at my club repeater we have a computer that is pretty good (dual 2.8 ghz cpu with 4 gig ram running windows 7
and we have some software running on it.
And i really cant switch this computer to linux.
so if I run the acid distro from a virtual machine and link the USB uri to that machine (wich is not too simple but doable) I think I would be able to run the app_rpt software while keeping the win 7 machine running smooth…
I’ve attempted it using the ACID distro under KVM, but it failed miserably. I couldn’t get the URI to communicate to the virtual machine, but it may have been my own error, so YMMV
If you try it out and it works let us know as I would still like to consider virtualizing mine as well…
Anyone here ever used a virtual machine engine like virtualbox to run a node or many node from a computer?
I ask cause at my club repeater we have a computer that is pretty good (dual 2.8 ghz cpu with 4 gig ram running windows 7
and we have some software running on it.
And i really cant switch this computer to linux.
so if I run the acid distro from a virtual machine and link the USB uri to that machine (wich is not too simple but doable) I think I would be able to run the app_rpt software while keeping the win 7 machine running smooth…
<-- Hi Jim and all; I have a VM on top of an old Asterisk box (host O/S is running CENTOS 5.3; Sun Virtual Box as the VM Engine and then XP as a guest). I am running a D-STAR client in the XP VM, where I pass a USB sound fob from the host machine to the VM.
That works.... but.... I do hear some clicking in the audio, which I have not bothered to investigate - it could be a resource issue or something else - but the fact that I was able to pass a USB device from the host machine to the guest VM should provide you with some confidence to experiment further!
Cheers,
Ramesh.
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On 28/05/2011 7:51 AM, Jim Duuuude wrote:
Wow... *actually* expecting USB to work on a VM??
As Im sure you found... NFL (Not Likely... the 'F' is silent ).
There just are some things that virtualization is virutally useless for..
But for some applications, it does have some virtue..
I haven't tried it with Asterisk or on a URI, but I have had VMs running USB devices before, the most demanding example I can think of is a Funcube Dongle (SDR front end at 96 kHz sample rate) running inside a VM, and that worked perfectly. I can't see why a URI wouldn't work on the right VM platform. For the record, I was using VMware Fusion on a Mac as the VM host.
