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.. so anyone did that before??
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.... 73 Stephen K1LNX On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Pierre Martel <petem001@hotmail.com>wrote:
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..
so anyone did that before??
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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.. JIM WB6NIL Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 06:54:37 -0400 From: k1lnx@k1lnx.net To: App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] virtual machine. 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.... 73 Stephen K1LNX On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Pierre Martel <petem001@hotmail.com> wrote: 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.. so anyone did that before?? _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users -- **************************************** Stephen Brown - ARS K1LNX Johnson City, TN EM86 http://www.k1lnx.net Allstar Link: 2335 IRLP: 4829 PSTN: 423-665-9367 SIP: k1lnx@k1lnx.net **************************************** _______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@ohnosec.org http://ohnosec.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users
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..
<-- 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.
At 09:51 PM 5/28/2011, you 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. 73 de VK3JED / VK3IRL http://vkradio.com
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