virtual machines

[Tyler Spivey]

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I just finished doing something like this as an experiment. I ended up
going
with orca and vmware workstation - orca won't read the buttons, but
everything else reads fine. I ultimately created an unattended xp cd
that installed everything (jaws, winrar, 7zip, etc), set some options,
and worked - for the most part. When something didn't work, I just
posted a screenshot that vmware generates (on linux in png, windows in
bmp), and someone on irc was able to read it to me. vmware play is a
spiky, many-facited thing that sometimes works - I couldn't get it going
at all on my last try. Qeu works, but even with the accelerator it took
5 seconds upon each press of the tab key for narrator to respond. With
vmware, I was able to call someone on skype and have a conversation, but
sound quality improved when I plugged in a USB headset.
Hope this helps,
Tyler

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:41:24PM +0000, Monty Lilburn wrote:
> Hello All,
> 
> Recently I have been toying with the idea of running a virtual machine on 
> my Linux/Debian box.  Ultimately my aim would be to have Windows XP 
> running as a guest O/S on my Debian host machine.  I would hope to be able 
> to run Jaws  on the Windows XP guest O/S too.
> 
> As a trial, I have been attempting to use Qemu.  Before attempting to 
> get the Windows XP going, I thought I would try something relatively 
> simple like loading a Speakup/softsynth equipped Knoppix ISO.  Although 
> the this kind of works in that I do get to a Knoppix prompt, I normally 
> don't seam to have any joy with the speakup part.  It did work once but I 
> don't know what qemu switches/configuration I used that time and it is 
> proving  to be difficult to duplicate.
> 
> Since this is turning out to be somewhat futile, I wonder if anyone has 
> any  better suggestions on how to successfully get a VM going?  I've heard 
> that  VMPlayer works quite well but I understand that I would need to have 
> X-windows installed on my Debian box.  In order to do this (unless I am 
> wrong) I would need to first install Gnoppornicus or Orca to make the 
> X-windows/Gnome  environment accessible to even install the VMPlayer. 
> Maybe there is a way around this?  The last time I attempted to install 
> Gnoppornicus on my Debian box it failed miserably in that the packages 
> didn't go in smoothly and I think all that spoke was the initial welcome 
> message.  I digress!!!
> 
> So if anyone has any thoughts they would be much appreciated.
> 
> Best regards,
>    Monty
> 
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