Finally installed Wine but there are problems

[Alex Snow]

There is no way to use a virtual machine program with a screenreader.  
You have to install the OS either through serial console/speakup in 
the case of *nix or an unattend file in the case of windows.  The 
closest thing to an accessible vm was bochs with the curses output 
module, but it's too slow to be used.
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 10:19:15PM 
-0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> Hi Greg. What Xv hack you mentioned earlier? I looked through this 
> entire thread and didn't see anything. Also, from my experience in 
> playing with it, one is limited to text coming out the virtual serial 
> port when running Qemu from a text console. I ran into this problem when 
> I attempted running a BSD image, only to find out that its console 
> was not set to the virtual port. So unless one can get around using SDL 
> as a display and use Ncurses/similar, I'd say I'm out of luck for a 
> while.
> On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 06:57:09PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
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> > I've briefly looked at the qemu project before, but didn't actually
> > have the time to play with it. From what it looked like, it seems that
> > it's also possible to run qemu from the text console, even without the
> > xv hack in /etc/inittab I mentioned before.
> > 
> > Also, how responsive is qemu? I've run bochs before, and found it was
> > so slow as to be impractical to use in most scenarios, and this is on
> > a 1.1GHz celeron system.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 06:49:13PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> > > you might also want to look at qemu.  It's a free alternative to 
> > > vmware that is pretty accessible, and might give you better results 
> > > then wine.  Qemu uses commandline options to run instead of a gui 
> > > configuration like vmware does, so you could write a shell script to 
> > > start it and launch that from inside an x session.
> > 
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