* what vm solutions do people use @ Kelly Prescott ` Jason White 0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Kelly Prescott @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup My question says it all... What virtual machine solutions do you all use with Linux and speakup? I use the amazon cloud for the most part, but I have some machines which I need virtual machines on and I wonder what people find works for them... any ideas would be appreciated. -- Kelly ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: what vm solutions do people use what vm solutions do people use Kelly Prescott @ ` Jason White ` Don Raikes ` Gregory Nowak 0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Jason White @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Kelly Prescott <kprescott@coolip.net> wrote: > My question says it all... What virtual machine solutions do you all > use with Linux and speakup? I haven't tried it with Speakup, but I use KVM here. It supports virtualized audio devices if you specify the appropriate option when you start the VM. It also supports virtual braille displays, which can connect to a real display running on the host system. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* RE: what vm solutions do people use ` Jason White @ ` Don Raikes ` Jason White ` Gregory Nowak 1 sibling, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Don Raikes @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. I need a vm solution as well, so if you could send any info on setup and usage, I would appreciate it. -----Original Message----- From: Jason White [mailto:jason@jasonjgw.net] Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 6:36 PM To: speakup@linux-speakup.org Subject: Re: what vm solutions do people use Kelly Prescott <kprescott@coolip.net> wrote: > My question says it all... What virtual machine solutions do you all > use with Linux and speakup? I haven't tried it with Speakup, but I use KVM here. It supports virtualized audio devices if you specify the appropriate option when you start the VM. It also supports virtual braille displays, which can connect to a real display running on the host system. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@linux-speakup.org http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: what vm solutions do people use ` Don Raikes @ ` Jason White 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Jason White @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: speakup Don Raikes <don.raikes@oracle.com> wrote: > I need a vm solution as well, so if you could send any info on setup and usage, I would appreciate it. It should be easy enough to find "HOWTO" guides on the Web, so instead of duplicating what they document better than I can in a mailing list post, I'll give the highlights here. There are basically two approaches: you can run kvm from the shell, or you can run it via virt-install and virsh, which also have the advantage of supporting other virtualization solutions such as Xen. VirtualBox is from Oracle (a former Sun project) and has an extensive command line interface also, but I haven't used it. If you wish to run Kvm directly (as you may for some of its accessibility features), I would suggest reading the manual page and selecting command line options appropriately. On my system (Debian), the qemu manual page is the place to start - see also qemu-img for creating virtual disk images. If you're booting an ISO 9660 image that supports text mode, you can run Qemu/Kvm so that it provides terminal (curses) output. This can be very helpful during installation; I've booted Grml this way. The audio and braille display support should all be in the manual page. Virtual serial ports can be configured too. I hope this is a helpful starting point. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* Re: what vm solutions do people use ` Jason White ` Don Raikes @ ` Gregory Nowak 1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Gregory Nowak @ UTC (permalink / raw) To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. I use both user-mode linux, and virtualbox. What I like about user-mode linux are two things. First, it doesn't require extra software on the host. You need utilities to get networking going, but the actual virtual machine could be run by any user without getting the admin involved. Second, I like the fact that I can take "physical" consoles from the virtual machine, and attach each one to for example the host's physical console in a screen session. I get the virtual machine's output from start to shutdown via speakup on the host (grin). My server is a user-mode linux machine, which makes it very portable. I could probably run it from a grml live cd on the host if I wanted to. What I like about virtualbox is that I can use the same virtual machine on a gnu/linux, windows, and probably mac host as well. As long as I'm willing to create a new configuration if switching from a windows to a gnu/linux host for example, the virtual hard drive stays the same, and the guest operating system won't know it's running on a different host os. Virtualbox does also support virtual machine extensions as long as the host processor has that capability, and many other features. The workstation I'm writing this on is a virtual machine inside virtualbox. Greg On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 11:36:21AM +1000, Jason White wrote: > I haven't tried it with Speakup, but I use KVM here. It supports virtualized > audio devices if you specify the appropriate option when you start the VM. > > It also supports virtual braille displays, which can connect to a real display > running on the host system. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@linux-speakup.org > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- web site: http://www.gregn..net gpg public key: http://www.gregn..net/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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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