virtualbox, was: Re: PCI serial?

[Gregory Nowak]

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You're right, the gui interface is written in qt3, and it sucks in terms of
access, to say the least. I've already written about this on the
vbox-users list, and from the resulting comments I got from someone at
innotek, I plan to write to gw-micro support about it, to let them know
that innotek and virtualbox exists, and vise versa, and see if they're
willing to work together to do something about that. If you're using
window-eyes, you can reclass the custom control in the virtualbox gui
interface as a multidocument window. You still won't get the kind of
access you should by any means, but if you're patient, listen
carefully to what wineyes says, and use the wineyes mouse hotkeys, you
can do the important stuff in the gui, such as creating and starting a
vm. If you're using another screen reader, then you're on your own
there.

The good news is that whatever you can do in the gui, you can also do
in the vboxmanage command-line interface, which is not hard to use,
once you understand how to specify all the options to do what you want
to do, In fact, vboxmanage is the generic interface to interacting
with virtualbox, and there are things that you can't do in the gui,
that you do need to use vboxmanage for. Also, I think the virtualbox
manual is well-written, and there is also an entire chapter, devoted
to describing the usage of vboxmanage in detail. Hth.

Greg



On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 12:37:11PM -0700, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>     I am curious how you use Virtual Box with Window-Eyes or anything?  It 
> doesn't seem overly accessible?
> Thanks,
> Zack.
> 
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