VmWare Tools and Speakup

Kerry Hoath kerry at gotss.net
Thu Mar 6 19:26:23 EST 2008


vmware tools are not required for the virtual machines to be usable; they 
help with time synchronization.
You can install vmware tools inside a virtual machine from the console; 
however it'l knock
your network connection out when it updates the drivers.
Regards, Kerry.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline at hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup


> Hi Greg,
>    I'd use VirtualBox in a flash if I could get the darned serial 
> emulation
> to work.  I haven't been able to.  I always get errors about being unable 
> to
> set the host port mode because the device path is empty or null.  I don't
> know why I get these errors either, but it's beyond frustrating.
>    It doesn't seem to make a difference whether I use Windows XP Pro or
> Home as a host operating system, it just always happens.
> Any advice would be appreciated.
> Thanks much,
> Zack.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." 
> <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup
>
>
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>> I know this doesn't answer your question, but I just thought I'd throw
>> out there the fact that virtualbox's guest additions for gnu/linux can
>> be installed entirely from the text console, without requiring x. Yes,
>> you could install them using x as well, if you wanted to go that
>> route. The point is that you get a choice.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>>
>
>
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