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golden_au
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February 12, 2008
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Flash media server 3 on VMWare virtual machine

  • February 12, 2008
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Do any one know can a FMS 3 run smoothly on a vmware virtual machine? if yes, is there any requirement need to be aware? thanks for any adivse.
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    Correct answer KevinStreeter
    We don't "officially" support running the FMS under a VM, and I would not recommend using a VM for a production server. The developers here do routinely use VMWare for testing purposes, so you may have some success using a VM for testing your applications.

    The biggest problem we have encountered (so far!) using VMWare is that the clock of the VM tends to be very jittery compared to a dedicated machine. This jitter can lead to variations in the various clock-based operations performed by the FMS, particularly buffering and transmitting media data.

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    Ransom Weaver
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    February 14, 2008
    Rather than VMWare you may want to consider a operating system-level virtualization. I recommend OpenVZ. This has excellent native speed performance for the guest OS. I have This system with the host and guests all CentOS4.5, running variously FMS2, FMS3, Red5 etc in the guests. Its super easy to start, stop, clone, distroy the guests. the guests can be firewalled from the host. You can set guaranteed min and max memory allocations for the guests.

    You can run Linux distros as guests that differ from the host, but you can't run non-linux guests, unlike in VMWare.

    Also, the default resource allocations for the newly created OpenVZ guests are insufficient to run FMS in, so the config file for the guest needs to be changed.
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    golden_auAuthor
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    February 14, 2008
    Thanks KevinStreeter, your reply is very important for us.

    now I am assigned to evaluate the FMS 3 and work out the recommended hardware. are there aspects I should be aware or consider when we choose hardware? or how can I perform a test after I install FMS3? It seems that the system requirement of FMS3 is high.
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    KevinStreeterCorrect answer
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    February 13, 2008
    We don't "officially" support running the FMS under a VM, and I would not recommend using a VM for a production server. The developers here do routinely use VMWare for testing purposes, so you may have some success using a VM for testing your applications.

    The biggest problem we have encountered (so far!) using VMWare is that the clock of the VM tends to be very jittery compared to a dedicated machine. This jitter can lead to variations in the various clock-based operations performed by the FMS, particularly buffering and transmitting media data.
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