virtual machines

[Marcel Oats]

VMWare server is free, though you still have to register and get a 
serial number.  Fairly easy to use, though the buttons are not read under Orca.

Marcel
At 04:12 p.m. 30/01/2007, you wrote:
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>If I'm not mistaken, vmware is a commercial package, right? Is there
>anything free, (either speech or beer), that can do the job fairly
>well?
>
>Greg
>
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>On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:57:25PM -0800, 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
> >
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