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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Asterisk@Home Virtual Machine Updated - v2.8 Beta1


There's a new version of the popular Free VoIP PBX coming around the corner and it is going to have some pretty exciting changes. AMP (Asterisk Management Portal) has become FreePBX and is in this 2.8 Beta 1.. There are some pretty cool new features that you can read about here: http://www.freepbx.org. Also, the CentOS unerlying operating system has been updated to 4.3, SugarCRM has been updated, The core Asterisk code is up to 1.2.6 and there are some Zaptel updates too.

If you want to see some of these updates and don't want to upgrade your working AAH box, you can check out this article at NerdVittles.

If you just want to play with it, I've created a virtual machine that you can just download and turn on. It will boot up, get an IP address from your DHCP server and you can go to town. Click here to download it. The file is about 478MB... so be patient. Try downloading it at off-peak times if things are slow. I've got a dedicated 5Mb pipe just for these downloads and it seems to get saturated everytime I put out a new vm. Be sure to feel free to donate to cover some of the expenses... but only if you enjoy this site. :)

Once you've downloaded and unziped this file, you can run it in VMware Player, Server or Workstation. I created it in VMware Workstation 5.5.

The first time you run it, you will see this window or one just like it:

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Here you want to click Create and then OK. Then the OS will continue to load... before long you'll see this screen:

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Kudzu will see that, since you're running this VM from a new location, the MAC address of your NIC has changed and so it thinks you have new hardware. The easiest thing to do is to play along. Press any key to continue.

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Now you will have to choose to remove your existing config so that Kudzu can find the new NIC. Click "Remove Configuration" and let's move on.

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Now you'll click configure.

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and then set the NIC to use DHCP and click OK. At this point, the OS will finish booting and you'll be ready to go.

One last thing that you may notice is that there is one service that fails on boot...

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It is the S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive monitor daemon. Don't worry about it... you don't have a smart hard drive while in VM land. If seeing it fail bothers you, you can disable the smart daemon. If you're like me and don't know how to do that, you could install webmin using the instructions at NerdVittles.

Enjoy :)

Posted By: Jim on Tuesday, April 04, 2006
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12 Comments:

  • Hi, i just noticed that you have a typo in the download link of Asterisk. The "W" is missing.(vmarez) See below.

    http://dl.vmarez.com/virtual-machines/vmwarez.com-asteriskathome2.8b1.zip

    greetings
    neppoz

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 04, 2006 2:46 PM  

  • Thanks neppoz! I fixed it now.

    Jim

    By Blogger Jim, at April 04, 2006 4:07 PM  

  • "To log onto this virtual asterisk at home box, the console user is root and pw is vmwarez. the web username is maint and the pw is vmwarez."

    root pass doesnt seem to work

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 05, 2006 2:25 PM  

  • all passwords are standard-out-of-the-box passwords. usually "password" or "passw0rd"

    I stopped using vmwarez as a password after my first vm.

    HTH

    Jim

    By Blogger Jim, at April 05, 2006 3:28 PM  

  • thanks now im logged in :)
    iv been playing with these vm images from 2.5 and this one 2.8 is giving me some grief it boot fine the new nic is in place iv updated the os to test the nic but the default web page doesnt want to connect any ideas where to look next ?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 05, 2006 4:02 PM  

  • i restarted the httpd and ping test from the aah image and now all seems well

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 05, 2006 4:07 PM  

  • I had to manually run kudzu for it to recognize the nic for some reason. Everything is working fine now, I'm using vmware's virtual server beta 2 on FC5 x86_64. Thanks for all your hard work on these images.

    By Anonymous Glen, at April 15, 2006 9:10 PM  

  • I tried many times to download this, but failed. Can anyone please make sure that link is ok?

    http://dl.vmwarez.com/virtual-machines/vmwarez.com-asteriskathome2.8b1.zip

    Appreciate for help in advance.

    Thanks
    Nahid

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 23, 2006 6:14 AM  

  • 2.8 is out of beta and the new vm can be seen here.

    HTH

    Jim

    By Blogger Jim, at April 23, 2006 7:01 AM  

  • Thanks for the info so far, really helpful. May i please ask if there any special traps in getting this to boot on GSX 2.5.2? I must be missing something really simple!

    Thanks if you can give any pointers.

    Brett :)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at April 29, 2006 9:05 PM  

  • How do you manually run kudzu? it is not recognizing my NIC, help please.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 05, 2006 1:22 PM  

  • How do you run the page http://ip address in order in VMPLaYER to get the web page to showup I am new to linux and VMWARE

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at July 06, 2006 12:12 PM  

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