virtualization, was: Re: an observation, and question

[Gregory Nowak]

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It depends on what guest you want to virtualize on what host. For
virtualizing a GNU/Linux guest on a GNU/Linux host, I personally use
user-mode Linux, though there are/were a few folks with screenreaders
(using orca on GNU/Linux) on the virtualbox-users list, who do the
same under virtualbox. I could get into running windows guests on
windows hosts, for which I use a couple of solutions (virtualbox being
one of them), depending on which version of windows I want to virtualize, but
that's not a topic for this list.

As for your observation regarding virtualbox, though it is handy to
get to use the GUI (NVDA does very well here on a windows host), it is
still possible to make full use of virtualbox via the command line,
once you take the time to learn the various options that need to be
passed to the various virtualbox programs, primarily VBoxManage. Hth.

Greg


On Thu, Apr 08, 2010 at 07:42:22PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
> Hi Greg and all. Regarding virtualization, what is the consensus on the best
> method for getting good output from a textmode installer? I did try Qemu in
> -curses mode, and unless I'm missing some configuration that needs to be done
> beforehand, I found a lot of capability missing, such as cursor tracking. This
> made it fairly difficult to navigate the Centos installer for example. My next
> option I figured was Virtualbox, but so far as I can tell, it doesn't have an
> Ncurses mode at all. Ideas?


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