Regarding running Linux with Speakup under a virtual machine with Windows XP

[Michael Whapples]

To add another option, it is possible to set up dual boot on the
computer and make windows the default. If you think the lilo, grub or
other boot loader screen would be off-putting to the rest of your
family, you can install lilo (I don't know about grub) to a floppy disk,
and leave the windows boot loader on the HD, so when you want linux
stick the lilo disk in. I guess you could actually install lilo to any
disk that you could boot from, eg. USB storage devices, etc. NOTE: with
this it is only the boot loader on the removable media, the OS is still
on the HD and so will behave as you would want and expect. I don't know
if other distros offer installing the boot loader to other places like
floppy, but I know slackware allows lilo on a floppy from the installer
(any distro should be able to install lilo to a floppy but you may need
to do it once it is installed).

From
Michael Whapples
On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 12:01 -0700, Shane wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 11:41:00AM -0700, Keith Hinton wrote:
> > I have a Windows XP Media Center Edition box that I mainly use for Skype 
> > reasons and other voice over IP things that Linux sadly does not seem to 
> > help me with.
> 
> A number of options here.  There is a Linux skype client
> and chan_skype which can gate it to Asterisk and therefore
> SIP.  I haven't tried this method myself and use a Windows
> skype/sip gateway but no reason why it wouldn't work.
> 
> > not.Now, would it be possible to use VMWare worksation and run Linux and 
> > isntall it, and use software speech with Speakup? Any considerations that I 
> > should take into account first? Will this work? Let me know. Regards,--Keith 
> 
> Should work.  I use a similar setup on a laptop and is
> quite stable.
> 
> Shane