Building A Virtual Trixbox

From Asterisk Australia

Overview

Trixbox usually requires its own hardware, an old PC or Server that becomes your phone system. This PC then needs to be left on 24 hours a day to hum away quietly. Chances are you already have a serious server running your office, you have invested in redundant power supplies, huge disks and a processor that only uses 0.0001% serving your office files. Now you can allocate some of that premium hardware to supporting your Trixbox PBX. This guide covers Trixbox, if you have available hardware check Building a Business PBX

Problems

Running Trixbox in a virtual environment has typically not been recommended in the past, telephony uses complex timing and real-time compression that other services can interfere with. Virtual systems have improved and Asterisk has improved to the point where Trixbox is workable in a virtual environment. You cannot use any of the Digium cards or PCI cards for your PSTN lines, and will need a Cisco SPA400,Cisco SPA8800 or separate box.

What You Need

Make sure your server has the capacity to handle the extra load.
Typically 15Gb of Disk Space spare and 500 Mb of RAM.

Getting Started

Download Trixbox
Download Trixbox 2.8.0.1 Approx 600Mb
Download Sun VirtualBox
Click to Download Virtual Box Approx 68Mb

Installing Sun Virtual Box ScreenShots

Run the Setup Wizard.
Select Next, Accept the license agreement.
Use the default settings, click next again
Decide if you want shortcuts, Click Next
Yes, to the network warning. The install is just going to drop the network for a moment.
Click Install to start the installation.
Wait while the setup completes. Click "Continue Anyway" on the unsigned driver popups.
Select Start xVM after installation.

Bridge the network interfaces Screenshots

We will need to bridge the network interface, this is done through the Operating System.
Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Network Connections.
You should see a new "VirtualBox Host-Only Network". This is the virtual box.
Select the 2 network connections (Hold CTRL). Right click and select "Bridge Connections"
You should now have a Network Bridge.

Create a new VirtualBox with Screenshots

You may need to register if this is the first time you have run VirtualBox.
Select New (top left) to create a new virtual box.
Click Next
Enter A Name: Trixbox
Select Operating System : Linux
Select Version : Linux 2.6
Click Next
Base Memory Size, Select 512Mb, if you are tight on memory 256Mb. If you can spare it 1Gb.
Click Next.
Select "Create New Hard Disk" and tick Boot Hard Disk (Default)
Click Next, Virtual Hard Disk Wizard, Click Next Again.
Select Fixed Sized Storage. 15Gb should be plenty, more if you have it.
Click Finish and your Virtual Hard Disk will be created.
Click Finished and you will return to the main screen.

Change the network settings

Click the settings button, Select Network and change from NAT to Bridged.
Screenshot

Installing Trixbox on the Virtual Machine with Screenshots

Click the green start button, this will run the first time wizard.
Click Next to choose installation media.
Click "Image File" and browse.
Click Add and select the trixbox image file.
Click Select and Finish
This is now like booting from the CD on your virtual machine.
Press enter to begin the installation.
This is now like any other Trixbox installation.

Standard Trixbox Installation

Select Keyboard Type [Enter]
Select Timezone [Enter]
Enter Root Password [Enter]
Wait for the install to complete.

Remove the ISO as a boot preference

After you trixbox install, the server will reboot to the ISO.
To stop this from happening :
Select Devices, Unmount CD/DVD ROM.
Select Machine, Reset, then O.K.
Your virtual system will now reboot into the trixbox PBX and complete the install.

Summary

All Done!. Your trixbox system will behave just like any other. You should set a static IP address with system-config-network.

Building_a_Business_PBX#Log_in_and_Configure_Trixbox_Via_the_Web_Interface_Screenshots

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