From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ns.pcdesk.net ([65.100.173.137] helo=pcdesk.net) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1HBeVi-0004FA-00 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:57:58 -0500 Received: from localhost ([70.68.38.175]) (AUTH: LOGIN tspivey@pcdesk.net) by pcdesk.net with esmtp; Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:57:13 -0700 id 0341492A.45BE6DB9.00001196 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:57:25 -0800 From: Tyler Spivey To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: virtual machines Message-ID: <20070129215725.GA38699@fajrero> References: <20070129125128.GA24520@cq.ftml.net> <45BE1D96.40703@brailcom.org> <20070129182330.GA13142@cq.ftml.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 21:57:59 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just finished doing something like this as an experiment. I ended up going with orca and vmware workstation - orca won't read the buttons, but everything else reads fine. I ultimately created an unattended xp cd that installed everything (jaws, winrar, 7zip, etc), set some options, and worked - for the most part. When something didn't work, I just posted a screenshot that vmware generates (on linux in png, windows in bmp), and someone on irc was able to read it to me. vmware play is a spiky, many-facited thing that sometimes works - I couldn't get it going at all on my last try. Qeu works, but even with the accelerator it took 5 seconds upon each press of the tab key for narrator to respond. With vmware, I was able to call someone on skype and have a conversation, but sound quality improved when I plugged in a USB headset. Hope this helps, Tyler On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:41:24PM +0000, Monty Lilburn wrote: > Hello All, > > Recently I have been toying with the idea of running a virtual machine on > my Linux/Debian box. Ultimately my aim would be to have Windows XP > running as a guest O/S on my Debian host machine. I would hope to be able > to run Jaws on the Windows XP guest O/S too. > > As a trial, I have been attempting to use Qemu. Before attempting to > get the Windows XP going, I thought I would try something relatively > simple like loading a Speakup/softsynth equipped Knoppix ISO. Although > the this kind of works in that I do get to a Knoppix prompt, I normally > don't seam to have any joy with the speakup part. It did work once but I > don't know what qemu switches/configuration I used that time and it is > proving to be difficult to duplicate. > > Since this is turning out to be somewhat futile, I wonder if anyone has > any better suggestions on how to successfully get a VM going? I've heard > that VMPlayer works quite well but I understand that I would need to have > X-windows installed on my Debian box. In order to do this (unless I am > wrong) I would need to first install Gnoppornicus or Orca to make the > X-windows/Gnome environment accessible to even install the VMPlayer. > Maybe there is a way around this? The last time I attempted to install > Gnoppornicus on my Debian box it failed miserably in that the packages > didn't go in smoothly and I think all that spoke was the initial welcome > message. I digress!!! > > So if anyone has any thoughts they would be much appreciated. > > Best regards, > Monty > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFvm3ETsjaYASMWKQRAq3gAKCmgmtO2frSAgy2gfPScBnO4Q36cwCfalYO fYc7XTpVeTjI3k/SbXICYO8= =yIzG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----