[opensuse] XEN Help Please
Hi ! I am in desperate need of Asterisk 1.4 and freePBX 2.3. Unfortunately, freePBX requires Apache to be run as user/group asterisk, what makes current server incompatible with any other web applications. The simplest solution seems to be to run Trixbox (preinstalled appliance of Asterisk, freePBX, CentOS 5, and some other utilities), straight on my SuSE 10.2 box under XEN. Trixbox comes as CentOS 5 based bootable CD to be installed on hard drive. I have Core2 Duo and low server load so virtualization penalty is really small. The question is - how to "virtualize" Trixbox under SuSE 10.2/XEN? Of course, I could install another PC dedicated exclusively for Trixbox, but there are already too much of this stuff, too combersome to manage. Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s). AV -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Not sure about Xen, but you could try KVM or VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 02 September 2007 00:30:26 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Not sure about Xen, but you could try KVM or VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org
Thanks for the excellent idea of using KVM, the only question I have, how reliable it really is? Server should run 27/7, especially taking into account that I am going to use Trixbox telephony server under virtualization. If KVM crashes, someone of my impatient colleagues may crash something heavy on me, you know what does it mean "phone system does not work at all" in a busy company. Its a joke of course, but I must be 99.99% sure that it will work reliably. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 9/1/07, Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru)
On Sunday 02 September 2007 00:30:26 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Not sure about Xen, but you could try KVM or VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org
Thanks for the excellent idea of using KVM, the only question I have, how reliable it really is? Server should run 27/7, especially taking into account that I am going to use Trixbox telephony server under virtualization.
If KVM crashes, someone of my impatient colleagues may crash something heavy on me, you know what does it mean "phone system does not work at all" in a busy company. Its a joke of course, but I must be 99.99% sure that it will work reliably.
Well, KVM has several issues with *booting* certain guests, but after boot it works very reliably. The issues: graphical GRUB menu is the main one. Disable it - make it text GRUB, and some guest Linux kernels also need nmi_watchdog=0 to boot. Guest OSs, that work reliably with KVM are: RedHat/Fedora and Debian Etch. (needs no workarounds) Ubuntu, SUSE and Mandriva need workarounds described above to boot. Just try it. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ahh, and one more thing: the "problematic" guests need to be installed with "-no-kvm" parameter. -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) wrote:
On Sunday 02 September 2007 00:30:26 Alexey Eremenko wrote:
Not sure about Xen, but you could try KVM or VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org
Thanks for the excellent idea of using KVM, the only question I have, how reliable it really is? Server should run 27/7, especially taking into account that I am going to use Trixbox telephony server under virtualization.
If KVM crashes, someone of my impatient colleagues may crash something heavy on me, you know what does it mean "phone system does not work at all" in a
busy company. Its a joke of course, but I must be 99.99% sure that it will work reliably. /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\ /\
If this is your problem, imho your best bet is to use a separate machine. After all, this is your telephony system in a busy company. ;-) Furthermore, if 99,99 % is what you want to achieve, you better look for linux on iSeries (there is a telephony solution available, indeed!) and a good high availability concept on top of it. According to http://www.eventhelix.com/RealtimeMantra/FaultHandling/system_reliability_av... you are planning for a downtime of 52minutes per year. ;-);-). regards Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi,
I am in desperate need of Asterisk 1.4 and freePBX 2.3. Unfortunately, freePBX requires Apache to be run as user/group asterisk, what makes current server incompatible with any other web applications.
I'm wondering: where is the problem in running as user/group asterik? After all it's only a name. Other distributions use other usernames. I probably don't see something obvious but I think that you only have to find all files owned by www and wwwrun, chown them to asterisk, change apache's configuration directives, and your other web applications should work? Anyway better use a dedicated, physical server for a voip system. Kind regards, Gael -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Alexey Eremenko -
Andrei Verovski (aka MacGuru) -
Eberhard Roloff -
Gaël Lams