virtual machines

[Monty Lilburn]

Thanks guys, I'll see if I can get something going with vmware then!

Monty

On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Tyler Spivey wrote:

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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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