Re: virtual machines

[Gregory Nowak <greg@romuald.net.eu.org>]

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If I'm not mistaken, vmware is a commercial package, right? Is there
anything free, (either speech or beer), that can do the job fairly
well?

Greg


On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:57:25PM -0800, Tyler Spivey wrote:
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> 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
> 

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