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limpan
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by limpan » 24 Feb 2007, 13:50
Hello!
Is anyone out there running Ventrilo-server on their Bubba?
Can you please post a quick how-to, would be very happy!

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bjorn
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by bjorn » 24 Feb 2007, 18:28
I doubt that you will be able to run Ventrilo Server on bubba at all!
First of all Ventrilo is proprietary, closed source software and is only distributed as binaries for i386, PowerPC and Sparc.
Bubba uses an ARM-processor and would need the source to be compiled for this platform.
I might be wrong about this, so i do encourage you to look around and see if you can find the source, then it might be possible!
/Bjorn
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bjorn
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by bjorn » 25 Feb 2007, 04:44
Hi!
Software emulation of i386 on 200mhz ARM-processor will be very slow, and will most likely not perform well as a realtime audio-conferencing server. The only way to find out weather or not it'll work is to try it! You'll always learn something
/Bjorn
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limpan
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by limpan » 25 Feb 2007, 06:09
Thanks alot for your answers Bjorn!
Maybe i'll try it out anyways, just to learn!

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osa
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by osa » 25 Feb 2007, 15:42
Bjorn, according to
Jarno, when run on an Athlon 64 3800+, it can perform 20 percent faster than the ARM-based LinkSys NSLU2 (266MHz??) .. so it's worth trying
Have you tried any benchmarks on Bubba?
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bjorn
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by bjorn » 25 Feb 2007, 16:27
Hi Osa,
Outperforming an ARM-processor(@266mhz) by 20% on an Athlon 64 3800+ is one thing, emulating a x86 on ARM(@200mhz) would probably not deliver any satisfactory results.
But no, i don't have any benchmarks though...

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osa
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by osa » 25 Feb 2007, 16:56
mea culpa
i've read all again and i see my mistake.
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bjorn
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by bjorn » 05 May 2007, 04:52
If you didn't try to install ventrilo server maybe this will be of interest!
the person who wrote this article:
http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/S ... riloServer
has used a ventrilo server through emulated x86 with qemu-x86. Only thing is that that person used a NSLU2 which features a 266mhz processor.
But try it out! it might work well for you on bubba even at 160mhz!
never give up.
/Bjorn
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Gurriz
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by Gurriz » 30 May 2007, 16:10
Does anyone know how to install qemu on bubba?
The link above is for NSLU2 using the ipkg command which I don't find on bubba. Is it possible to download qemu as source-code and compile it?
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linhely
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by linhely » 26 May 2011, 05:30
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nnevatie
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by nnevatie » 26 May 2011, 05:47
linhely wrote:Software emulation of i386 on 200mhz ARM-processor will be very slow, and will most likely not perform well as a realtime audio-conferencing server.
It works fine, to be honest. Typical VOIP servers (Ventrilo, TeamSpeak) are not actually touching the audio streams in the server-side, but rather working as packet routers between clients - i.e. all the CPU-intensive work is done by the clients (encoding/decoding audio).
I have been running Ventrilo on B2 via qemu for months now, without any issues - this is with moderately low number of users (2-10), your mileage may vary.