* VmWare Tools and Speakup
@ Zachary Kline
` Gregory Nowak
` Alex Snow
0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Zachary Kline @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi,
Now that I'm using VmWare for my virtualization needs, I was wondering
how I'd go about enabling things like time synchronization with the host
system. I can't use the regular VmWareToolBox X application, precisely
because it's an X application and hence inaccessible. Any advice about
manually editing something or an alternative would be appreciated.
I remember seeing something earlier on here about VmWare storing
information in text files, but can't seem to find that in the archives at
the moment.
Thanks much,
Zack.
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VmWare Tools and Speakup Zachary Kline
@ ` Gregory Nowak
` Zachary Kline
` Alex Snow
1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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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
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 03:36:35PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi,
> Now that I'm using VmWare for my virtualization needs, I was wondering
> how I'd go about enabling things like time synchronization with the host
> system. I can't use the regular VmWareToolBox X application, precisely
> because it's an X application and hence inaccessible. Any advice about
> manually editing something or an alternative would be appreciated.
> I remember seeing something earlier on here about VmWare storing
> information in text files, but can't seem to find that in the archives at
> the moment.
> Thanks much,
> Zack.
>
>
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` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Zachary Kline
` Kerry Hoath
` Gregory Nowak
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From: Zachary Kline @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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.
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From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@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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` Zachary Kline
@ ` Kerry Hoath
` Zachary Kline
` Gregory Nowak
1 sibling, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Kerry Hoath @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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@hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@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@romuald.net.eu.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup@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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> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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` Kerry Hoath
@ ` Zachary Kline
` Kerry Hoath
0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Zachary Kline @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Hi,
I'm pretty sure I can get the tools installed, the part that concerns me
is how to activate them when I'm done with that. There's an X11 application
I can't use.
Thanks,
Zack.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup
> 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.
>
>
> ----
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` Zachary Kline
@ ` Kerry Hoath
0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Kerry Hoath @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
the tools are started from an initscript in /etc/init.d
and the config files are text files.
Don't pannic.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@hotmail.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 2:02 PM
Subject: Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup
> Hi,
> I'm pretty sure I can get the tools installed, the part that concerns
> me
> is how to activate them when I'm done with that. There's an X11
> application
> I can't use.
> Thanks,
> Zack.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kerry Hoath" <kerry@gotss.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
> <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup
>
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> ----
>
>
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> Speakup mailing list
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> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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* Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup
` Zachary Kline
` Kerry Hoath
@ ` Gregory Nowak
1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
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Zack,
I've found the way to do it is to mouse around the gui interface, and get
the correct port assigned that way. I'm able to do that with
wineyes. I don't always get it right the first time, but I've gotten
it right shortly after the first time several times now. You can
verify with vboxmanage showvminfo vm_name if the port got assigned. This is
something that seems to be broken since 1.5.4, but Innotek haven't
apparently fixed it yet. Virtualbox isn't perfect, and I never said
it was. My personal opinion is that there is currently no
virtualization solution which is perfect in every respect. They all
have their pro and con sides. Virtualbox floats my boat, and so I've
decided to settle on it for the most part.
Greg
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 04:19:05PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> 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.
>
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* Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup
VmWare Tools and Speakup Zachary Kline
` Gregory Nowak
@ ` Alex Snow
1 sibling, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Alex Snow @ UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
Your best bet is to just synchronise the clock to a time server using
ntpdate...do something like ntpdate time-a.nist.gov
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008
at 03:36:35PM -0800, Zachary Kline wrote:
> Hi,
> Now that I'm using VmWare for my virtualization needs, I was wondering
> how I'd go about enabling things like time synchronization with the host
> system. I can't use the regular VmWareToolBox X application, precisely
> because it's an X application and hence inaccessible. Any advice about
> manually editing something or an alternative would be appreciated.
> I remember seeing something earlier on here about VmWare storing
> information in text files, but can't seem to find that in the archives at
> the moment.
> Thanks much,
> Zack.
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Speakup mailing list
> Speakup@braille.uwo.ca
> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
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