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Friday, June 02, 2006

New Asterisk@Home / TrixBox 1.0 Virtual Machine

UPDATE (6/6/2006): I've released a new version of this VM that should address problems found on the first release with the NIC configuration... Please re-download this if you had problems with the first one.

Andrew has done it again! The guy who has been feeding us nerds with AAH all along has gone and changed the name of our favorite toy. Asterisk@Home is dead. TrixBox is alive! Besides a new name and look, it has a few other features that will make all of us very happy. For one, it is being built such that it can now be updated without having to start all over each time. After that, not much else is important :).

To get right to it, you can download the VM here:

http://dl.vmwarez.com/virtual-machines/vmwarez.com-trixbox1.0a.zip

It is about 550MB. This one has VMware Tools installed (from Workstation 5.5), so it will hopefully run better. I've also installed webmin for us non-linux heads... To recap, this is basically the next version of Asterisk@Home, just with a new name and new features. AAH2.8 was the end of AAH. From now on it is TrixBox.

To access the console, the username is "root" and the pw is "password". To access the web stuff, the username is "maint" and the pw is also "password"

If you have trouble starting it up, read this post for info on what buttons to push along the way... Even though the screen caps are from AAH 2.8b1, it should still work just fine.

Please let me know if you have any questions or comments... Suggestions are always welcome. And if you like this stuff (and use it) please do contribute over at trixbox.org. They work very hard on this stuff to make it easy for us to use such awesome technology.

Posted By: Jim on Friday, June 02, 2006
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31 Comments:

  • While I've run previous versions of VMWarez AAH before and had it detect a "new" network card on bootup... this version doesn't seem to be doing it. Only interface I have is loopback. Help!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 03, 2006 8:51 PM  

  • While I've run previous versions of VMWarez AAH before and had it detect a "new" network card on bootup... this version doesn't seem to be doing it. Only interface I have is loopback. Help!

    By Anonymous Dave W., at June 03, 2006 8:52 PM  

  • Sorry about that. This new version of the virtual machine will work. There was an issue with the first one because of the VMware tools. You'll have to re-download it, though.

    By Blogger Jim, at June 06, 2006 7:45 AM  

  • Will it be possible to get Flite into your VM?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 07, 2006 2:23 AM  

  • I'm pretty sure Flite is in TrixBox 1.0. I'll double check and report back.

    Jim

    By Blogger Jim, at June 07, 2006 6:09 AM  

  • Flite is now part of TrixBox. See the Nerd Vittles tutorials for details.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 11, 2006 4:44 AM  

  • Flite is now part of TrixBox. See the Nerd Vittles tutorials for details.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 11, 2006 4:44 AM  

  • Jim,

    I have downloaded the 1.0a version three times and I cannot unzip it. Each time I am faced with an "invalid archive" message.

    Am I the only one?

    Thank you.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 12, 2006 3:07 AM  

  • I just double checked it. You might try downloading it with a different browser or maybe with a download manager. Lately I've noticed IE7 Beta has host several downloads for me. Not sure what you're using but I would not be surprised to find out it is IE7b's fault. If anything, IE7 is turning me into a FireFox fan :)

    By Blogger Jim, at June 12, 2006 6:42 AM  

  • Will you include A2billing version 1.2 (just updated) on your next VM?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 13, 2006 5:10 PM  

  • I'll see what I can do...

    Jim

    By Blogger Jim, at June 13, 2006 5:29 PM  

  • Does anyone else have the problem where clicking 'Setup' in FreePBX only returns the header and footer with no page content or links on the left? It did it when I created my own virtual machine from the ISO so I downloaded this one and it still does it...

    I must admit, i'm confused.

    Andy

    By Blogger Andy, at June 15, 2006 5:17 PM  

  • Hi,

    I'd be sure that you have a statically assigned IP address. I've found all kinds of problems when using DHCP. Let me know if that helps.

    Thanks,

    Jim

    By Blogger Jim, at June 15, 2006 6:19 PM  

  • Andy,

    You needs to add some modules such as Core via Tools- Module Admin. before the Setup option shows anything

    Trevor

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 16, 2006 7:30 AM  

  • I don't know how necessary it is to verify a zip file download, but I get an MD5 checksum of the following for this download:

    467878f316060e7a6ab079284c0d088c

    Can anyone verify if they got the same for this zip file.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 18, 2006 5:36 PM  

  • From AAH 2.8 to Trixbox 1.0a, (and even updating the modules) there still seems to be a problem with recording IVR messages. I enter the extension like it says and dial *77, but it just returns a dialtone. I've tried it on three different hardware platforms. Could this be fixed in the next update?

    By Anonymous John, at June 19, 2006 2:26 PM  

  • Anybody knows what the password is for MySQL? root does not work.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at June 29, 2006 1:52 PM  

  • Use PhpAdmin to change the password, see chapter 3 of Asterisk Handbook: http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Asterisk%40Home+Handbook+Wiki+Chapter+3#310ChangingyourdefaultMySQLPasswordbspan

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at July 07, 2006 10:09 AM  

  • I d/l 1.0a (july1) and setup the VMPlayer. Everything as fine. Then I did trixbox-udpdate.sh update (2x) to get v 1.1. Now my network is hosed.

    First I had an error that the MAC address didn't match. I removed the HWADDR line from the /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. and now get an error about device not found in vmnics.

    On boot, if I select the "old" version (CentOS-4 2.6.9 ) everything is fine.
    Any suggestions?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at July 12, 2006 9:27 AM  

  • I am having TERRIBLE problems with choppy recordings and IVR. The voice quality during a call is fine but the IVR and recordings is bad. I think a lot of people are having the same issue. I have try a "fix" by VMWARE that suggests to edit the .ini file in the VMPLAYER folder in Windows with the processor speed information. This is supposed to take care of the timing problem fotr the virtual machines, but no success. Somebody in a forum actually suggested to remove the .ulaw audio files from the sounds folders in asterisk so that it is forced to use the .gsm audio files. That did not make a difference. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at July 19, 2006 10:04 AM  

  • I am having TERRIBLE problems with choppy recordings and IVR. The voice quality during a call is fine but the IVR and recordings is bad. I think a lot of people are having the same issue. I have tried a "fix" by VMWARE that suggests to edit the .ini file in the VMPLAYER folder in Windows with the processor speed information. This is supposed to take care of the timing problem for the virtual machines, but no success. Somebody in a forum actually suggested to remove the .ulaw audio files from the sounds folders in asterisk so that it is forced to use the .gsm audio files. That did not make a difference. Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at July 19, 2006 10:10 AM  

  • Anybody knows how to resolve the choppy IVR issue?

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at July 25, 2006 10:20 AM  

  • Hi Jim,

    Thanks for the setup on TrixBox. Mostly, got it to work and have updated to 1.1.1. My question to you is after the update the boot menu shows two selections. One is followed by i686. Which should I use and how can I get the boot menu back to a single option?

    Thanks.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 03, 2006 12:52 PM  

  • Hi Jim,

    Thanks for the setup on TrixBox. Mostly, got it to work and have updated to 1.1.1. My question to you is after the update the boot menu shows two selections. One is followed by i686. Which should I use and how can I get the boot menu back to a single option?

    Thanks.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 03, 2006 12:53 PM  

  • Hi Jim

    Regarding maint PW, no way will mine login using password. Tried several times to change it, I get all the right responses but it still won't let me in under main. I've stopped webin and re-run it, rebooted the trixbox nothing I do will let me login to amp under maint. Any ideas

    Bob

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 06, 2006 8:37 AM  

  • well I have tried for over 3 hours to get trixbox 1.0a and the update 1.1.1 to allow me to login to webmin under maint, No way will it accept any of the passwords ie password, passw0rd or vmwarez. If I change it using passwd-maint accepts it, but will not login. I have tried this on 2 differnet PC's and same thing.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 06, 2006 10:56 AM  

  • i got the following error: bringing up interface eth0: vmnics device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

    if i modprobe for eth0 or vmnics, then i get the error: FATAL: module vmxnet not found.

    i am using the file vmwarez.com-trixbox1.0a.zip, and the error happened after i updated it with the instructions from www.kennonsoft.com, steps 4-17 ommitted).

    can you suggest a fix or proper way to update? my email is molnar at gmail dot com.

    thanks Jim!!!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 07, 2006 10:25 AM  

  • HI,

    I have downloaded this VM ware image and successfully configured.Started the Virual machine successfully and was able to login successfully.
    When i click on the Free PBX link below the Asterisk i can see only welcome.except that nothing is there.Please let me know if any config needs to be done.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at September 07, 2006 6:29 AM  

  • Brilliant work.

    Could you please let's know whether running TB2.2 on VMware ESX 2.5 is a good idea?
    It is currently running on dual P4 CPU server with 2GB RAM, but I am having voice quality issues, could that be because of VMWare? are there any tunning we can do on VMWare server? thanks

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at August 20, 2007 5:57 PM  

  • I've heard that running any VIOP application in a virtual machine will cause quality issues... mostly because of timing. I have experienced this with running TrixBox in ESX 2.5 and 3 and in workstation 5 and 6. There is one company who claims to have their VOIP PBX running fine virtualized: www.3cx.com. I've used their stuff on physical machines and it works great. In VMs I've only used it for testing - not running much voice over, so I can't say for sure.

    By Blogger Jim, at August 21, 2007 6:45 AM  

  • We solved the choppy ivr sounds problem in vmware on an HP Pavilion a1450n view our config here

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at January 18, 2008 10:02 AM  

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