[Novalug] Virtual opinions wanted

John Holland jbholland@gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 18:01:32 EST 2010


VirtualBox requires little changes to the host system. It's worked well 
for me.  Does Asterisk need to access communications hardware of some 
sort? If that is the case virtualization may not work out for you.  I 
would avoid OpenVZ. Vmware also worked well for some time ago but when 
VirtualBox came out it was such a difference in cost. I think Vmware has 
responded to that but I don't know for sure.


On 12/12/2010 05:34 PM, Nick Danger wrote:
> I have a happily running Ubuntu server. It does NFS, some web, Samba and
> a few other internal type tasks. I'd like to start messing around with
> Asterisk. I'd rather not install it directly as I probably want to try
> different distros / configs and I really don't want to mess with the
> 'core' function of my server at the moment. In fact I just recently
> reinstalled it (a few months back) because of a botched install of a
> bunch of services, so I'd rather separate the base function (now working
> great) from my messing around.
>
> So, which VZ tech should I work with? VirtualBox? VMWare? OpenVZ? I've
> worked with the first two, and I know they are easy enough but not sure
> if its overkill if all I want is a sandbox for a separate apache, mysql
> and asterisk binaries.
>
> Looking for thoughts and suggestions and things you have tried.
>
> Thanks
> Nick
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