From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from linserver.romuald.net.eu.org ([63.228.150.209]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1JXQTE-00068w-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:29:57 -0500 Received: (qmail 14601 invoked by uid 1000); 6 Mar 2008 17:29:27 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:29:27 -0700 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup Message-ID: <20080307002927.GA14527@localhost.localdomain> References: <20080307000919.GA14345@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) 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: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:29:57 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH0Ixn7s9z/XlyUyARAvAAAKCU/rkplOQVfNBL3zJlxD6vyVEW2gCbB1Aj nyOd4VF0h7HzgJaaigE14H8= =cTCR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----