[arm-allstar] Non RaspberryPi Version

[Danny K5CG]

There are those of us who would like an x86/X64 version purely as a virtual machine. Rather than providing an ISO to build a hamvoip node on an old PC, wouldn't it be easier to provide a unified virtual appliance? 

Create an Arch Linux VM with a generic hamvoip config, export it as a .ova file and make it publicly available. 

Then users could import it (into VMware, Citrix XenServer, XCP-ng and probably others). That reduces the number of types of hardware considerably because really there would be none. 

The caveat being that it would never be deployed on bare metal. 

Danny 
K5CG 

----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ARM Allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> 
> To: "ARM Allstar" <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> 
> Cc: "W4EDP - Emmett Perdue" <w4edp at w4edp.com> 
> Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 3:35:53 PM 
> Subject: Re: [arm-allstar] Non RaspberryPi Version 

> Thanks for the answer. 
> 
> There are many reasons why someone might want to or prefer to do it on other 
> than a Pi. I run machines in the cloud where I already have other software 
> running. I run DVSwitch, Analog_Bridge and md380_emu and bridge to Allstar on 
> one of those. I can’t put a Pi there, I do not want it at my house and I do 
> not want to pay yet another lease fee for a Pi when I already have machines in 
> the cloud that are more than capable of running HAMVoip. 
> 
> I appreciate your position and all your work. 
> 
> 73 
> Emmett Perdue 
> W4EDP 
> 
>> On May 22, 2020, at 3:36 PM, Doug Crompton via ARM-allstar 
>> <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote: 
>> 
>> The short answer is no, not at this time. The longer answer is why would 
>> you want to do that? I can see where it would be necessary for a virtual 
>> server but why on a local PC? The Pi and in particular the Pi4 has more 
>> capability than you would ever need. We have now put as many as 200 direct 
>> connects on a Pi4 in turbo mode load balanced across 4 virtual nodes. At 
>> this point there is really nothing the PC would do that the Pi would not so 
>> why would you want to run a 50+ watt PC when you could run a less than 5W 
>> Pi? I understand you have a 10 year old PC and you want to use it for 
>> something, Instead send it to the recycle and buy a Pi for $35 
>> 
>> Another aspect of a PC version that is often not thought about is the 
>> multitude of hardware it would be used with and the update process that 
>> would be outside of our control. Tis would cause a complete headache trying 
>> to keep up with changes. You can see this problem now in the ASL releases. 
>> 
>> For the virtual market we are now offering Pi4's setup and configured at 
>> our data center for lease. Enquire if you are interested. 
>> 
>> *73 Doug* 
>> 
>> *WA3DSP* 
>> 
>> *http://www.crompton.com/hamradio <http://www.crompton.com/hamradio>* 
>> 
>> On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 2:52 PM "larry via ARM-allstar" < 
>> arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote: 
>> 
>>> Emmett, 
>>> 
>>> Last I saw on here was that it was being worked on... then Later 
>>> something about Hamvoip abandoning that project. 
>>> I'm sure Dave or Doug will enlightens us before long. 
>>> 
>>> Like you I was looking forward to updating old Centos Acid servers. 
>>> 
>>> Larry - N7FM 
>>> 
>>> On 5/22/20 11:29 AM, "Emmett Perdue via ARM-allstar" wrote: 
>>> 
>>>> Is a non RaspberryPi version of HAMVoip available? One that could be 
>>> 
>>> installed on a full blown Debian server as an example. 
>>> 
>>>> Thanks & 73 
>>>> Emmett Perdue 
>>>> W4EDP 
>>>> 
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