I finally put together a xen image for trixbox 2.8.0.4 This is fully updated and is current as of today, 5-24-2010. The xen image for trixbox and others can be downloaded from XenForge.org here I have not tested this image that thoroughly.

Thank you,
Engineer Tim

Engineer Tim

I wanted to share this info on how to install the KalturaCE media server on CentOS. I saw that a lot of people were having issues getting it to work. Follow along, it is pretty easy to do. This should be a cut and paste article. I did this install in Xen with 32bit. I have not tried this in a 64bit environment yet. It should work the same, except the part where you have to get some php rpms below.

Ensure that your system is currently up to date.

I like always do my installing from /home/install/ Feel free to choose any directory you want to store your software in.

We need to install the EPEL and rem repos.

Now we need to install some needed software, we also enable the remi repo.

We need to grab the older php-5.2.10 rpms from remi with wget. These are the i386 rpms. The path for x86_64 is going to be different. This path might work if you are wanting 64bit.

http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/5/olds/x86_64/

Now we need to install the rpms we just grabbed. Don’t install the php-pecl-memcache* ones yet. These will be done at a later step.

We need to install some more pre-reqs for memcache stuff.

Now we get to install the last 2 rpms for php-pecl-memcache

Need to double check that short_open_tag is enabled for PHP. This is done in the /etc/php.ini

short_open_tag = On

Edit /etc/httpd/con/httpd.conf

Find AllowOverride for the directory /var/www/html/
Change it from
AllowOverride None
to
AllowOverride All

Now lets start up the services.

Now comes the MySQL stuff. We need to setup the database we want to use for kaltura. You can change the following two lines to match what you want to use. I use kaltura as the database and the name, and katura123 as the password. Again, these can be set to whatever you want to use. These will need to be known when you go into the kalturaCE installer.

It is recommended that you create a user for the kaltura database. Below is a simple create, please adjust to your liking.

Now we need to get the current kalturaCE code. The URL below will more than likely change, so make sure to goto the kaltura download site and copy the most current download URL.

Now we need to uncompress it and put it in the /var/www/html/ folder. The -C tells tar to uncompress into that folder.

Now open a browser and point it to

http://IP_OF_YOUR_SERVER/kalturaCE/install/

Where IP_OF_YOUR_SERVER is the actual IP address of your kalturaCE server.

Click begin installation

Should be all green check boxes.

Click on Continue

Database connections.
You will need to have the database, database user, and password. You should know this from a previous step.

Click Save and Continue.

Set the server url, if it is not already done so.

Set the Administrator Account with the info it asks for as well as email…

You should be done.

You can then goto

http://IP_OF_YOUR_SERVER/kalturaCE

You can get to the management interface using,

http://IP_OF_YOUR_SERVER/kalturaCE/index.php/kmc

Start adding your own media.

If there is enough interest in this, I can put up a Xen image on XenForge.org. I would also be willing to create a distribution that would install everything, again if enough interest is shown.

****update to libmemcached issue*****
If you get this
error: Failed dependencies:
libmemcached.so.2()(64bit) is needed by php-pecl-memcached-0.2.0-1.el5.remi.x86_64
libmemcached.so.2(libmemcached_2)(64bit) is needed by php-pecl-memcached-0.2.0-1.el5.remi.x86_64

or this
error: Failed dependencies:
libmemcached.so.2 is needed by php-pecl-memcached-0.2.0-1.el5.remi.i386
libmemcached.so.2(libmemcached_2) is needed by php-pecl-memcached-0.2.0-1.el5.remi.i386

For those of you having issues finding the libmemcached rpm, I think I found them. Damn remi removing rpms!! Try this link to a mirror of his rpms.
32-bit
wget http://cobbler.int-evry.fr/cblr/repo_mirror/el5-i386-remi/libmemcached-0.31-1.el5.remi.i386.rpm
file location http://cobbler.int-evry.fr/cblr/repo_mirror/el5-i386-remi/

64-bit
wget http://cobbler.int-evry.fr/cblr/repo_mirror/el5-x86_64-remi/libmemcached-0.31-1.el5.remi.x86_64.rpm
file location http://cobbler.int-evry.fr/cblr/repo_mirror/el5-x86_64-remi/

Hopefully this helps!!
Thank you,
Engineer Tim

I would like to know if there is a top 10 or top 20 SIP providers list out there with reviews. Does anyone have links to something like that. I would like to see where Teliax stacks up on such a list.

Engineer Tim

Just got back from the Rainforest Run. What a ride. I also wanted to thank Bob and his crew at Cycle Camp for allowing the “New Canadians” or “Canoregons” to stay. If you are ever in the area and on a bike, you have to stop in at Cycle Camp. The atmosphere is friendly, we truly felt at home. You also have to check out the Hoh Rain Forest and hit some of the trails. We took the Hall of Moss trail and it was amazing to see all the colors and shapes hanging from the trees. A trip up there would not be complete without a stop in to Forks, home of the Twilight books, so I am told by my 15 year old daughter who planned the trip. You will see signs everywhere for Twilight in the town as well as vampire boundaries and treaty lines.

Here are some pics for your pleasure.

Engineer Tim

Thank you to a couple users who pointed out that my bfd rules were a little less than perfect. They worked great for me on a older version of bfd, but I believe a update to the bfd application caused them to stop working. Either way, new rules have been created.

This one is for SIP wrong passwords. Save this as asterisksip

This rule is for wrong or non existent extension. Save this as asterisksip2

This rule is for IAX. Save this as asteriskiax.

Special thanks goes to Ioan Indreias and Gonzalo Gonzalez.
If it looks like the code is missing, try to highlight it all and copy/paste it into a text document. Hopefully this will show the entire rule without issue.
Make sure these rules are stored in /usr/local/bfd/rules/ Then rerun bfd with bfd -q and see if the new rules are in place by checking for the files in /usr/local/bfd/tmp/ .

Thank you,
Engineer Tim

Currently XenForge offers the following.
Xen Image downloads via Bittorrent links.
The ability to add your own torrent file to the site for others to download.
Forums to discuss the Xen images and config options.

We hope to be able to offer the means to post torrent files directly to our torrent server from a user. This is something that is currently being looked at. Right now users can submit a image for approval and we will be happy to generate the torrent and seed it directly. This is a manual process right now.

Feel free to join us on XenForge if you have the need for some Xen images.

Thank you,
Engineer Tim

For this to work, you need to have the install media for CentOS, I use the CentOS 5.3 i386 DVD. You should also have a read the trixbox-xen.pdf on this site.

CentOS specific stuff we need to do.

make sure this is browsable in a web browser. You will need to be able to serve the installer these files.

We need to copy off the vmliuz and initrd.img from the images/xen folder for our use during the install. I like to serve all of my xen specific stuff from a nfs mount so that I can access these files from different xen servers without issues. How you do it is up to you. These files MUST be accessible by the computer that is going to boot the Xen DomU for trixbox28. For ease of following this doc, I will user /srv/xen/trixbox28 as my directory for these files.

Trixbox Specific Repo Setup.

We have to create a trixbox folder to serve the rpms from for the installer.

We need to mount the trixbox-2.8.0 iso so we can get the rpms and the comps.xml file off.

Now we need to grab the comps.xml file for making the trixbox repo on our web server.

We need to add a couple of rpms to our new trixbox repo for xen. This will ensure the xen kernel and dahdi kmod files will work right out of the box. Make sure you are in /var/www/html/trixbox when doing the wget. Please also make sure to use your closest mirror by going to http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=30

We also need the kmod-dahdi from the trixbox repo.

Now lets create our repo for our installer.

if the createrepo is not found, install it with yum and try again.

Now we create our install file. I call mine trixbox28.install, the contents are listed below. Yours may differ. Of particular note is the kernel, ramdisk, and ks=http://192.168.1.216/trixbox.ks lines. The file trixbox.ks is our kickstart file, which we will have to make changes to from my original one in my xen guide.

kernel = “/srv/xen/trixbox28/vmlinuz”
ramdisk = “/srv/xen/trixbox28/initrd.img”
extra = “text ks=http://192.168.1.216/trixbox.ks”
name = “trixbox”
memory = “512″
disk = [ 'tap:aio:/srv/xen/trixbox.img,xvda,w', ]
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0', ]
vcpus=1
on_reboot = ‘destroy’
on_crash = ‘destroy’

Save this file in /etc/xen/

Now we need to edit the trixbox.ks file or ks.cfg from my trixbox-xen guide. We need to change the first line for the url to now point to our centos install media.
url –url http://192.168.1.216/centos
please make sure to use the ip address for your web server that is serving the centos install media.

We also need to add one additional repo (trixbox) to the trixbox.ks file. This is done with the repo line. Add this just before the %packages statement in the trixbox.ks file. Be sure to change the IP address and path to reflect the trixbox repo we created from above. We also need to add the kmod-dahdi-linux-xen so it gets installed and not install the kmod-dahdi-linux package.

#Add the repo information
repo –name=trixbox –baseurl=http://192.168.1.216/trixbox/
%packages
@Core
@Trixboxcore
kernel
kernel-xen
#add kmod-dahdi-linux-xen
kmod-dahdi-linux-xen
#remove the one for the other kernel so they don’t conflict possibly
-kmod-dahdi-linux
postfix
-sendmail

Now save your trixbox.ks or ks.cfg file with these changes.

Now start the install process for trixbox28.

Your installer should start and ask you for your local as well as a password for root.

You may, more than likely, see a few error messages fly by when the installer starts going. These are ok to ignore.

Once the install has finished it will shutdown and you will need to start it with your actual trixbox28 xen config. Mine is listed below, again yours might differ.

name = “trixbox28″
memory = “512″
disk = [ 'tap:aio:/srv/xen/trixbox.img,xvda,w', ]
vif = [ 'bridge=xenbr0', ]
bootloader=”/usr/bin/pygrub”
vcpus=1
on_reboot = ‘restart’
on_crash = ‘restart’

You should see no errors with dhadi,
Starting dahdi: Loading DAHDI hardware modules:
wct4xxp: [ OK ]
wcte12xp: [ OK ]
wct1xxp: [ OK ]
wcte11xp: [ OK ]
wctdm24xxp: [ OK ]
opvxa1200: [ OK ]
wcfxo: [ OK ]
wctdm: [ OK ]
wcb4xxp: [ OK ]
wctc4xxp: [ OK ]
xpp_usb: [ OK ]

No hardware timing source found in /proc/dahdi, loading dahdi_dummy
Running dahdi_cfg: [ OK ]

Firstboot scripts will run and you should be good to go.
Let me know any issues, questions or concerns either by email by posting a comment.