Hello!
Qemu doesn't work for some reason if you're on a scsi disc, like me.
I tried Qemu last week, got the win xp installation to work, but when the
computer should repartition the hard drive, ok, it saw my 60 gb harddrive I
had created, but it refused.
So I don't recomend qemu, but I'll test virtualbox some day in this week and
see fi I will be as pleased as Christian.
/Kristoffer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian" <christian08@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Linux for blind general discussion" <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:24 PM
Subject: Re: Virtual Machine?
Hi,
I have been using VirtualBox under LInux and you can create your VM
through the command line. I was able to install XP on my own with the
unatended install.
I set it to use 512 MB of RAM and 20 GB harddisk space.
It's not as responsive as if you are working directly in Windows, but
from my view it's acceptable.
If you try VirtualBox you need to install the Virtualbox Add-ons. Other
wise you'll not be able to install your screen reader. It will complain
about your video driver.
Window-Eyes worked fine for me.
You start the VM from a command line as well.
I also tried playinging an accessible game and it also worked.
All the best,
Christian
Using Ubuntu Hardy.
lör 2008-03-29 klockan 06:03 -0800 skrev Tony Baechler:
Rob Harris wrote:
> How effective and how accessible is running Windows(I prefer 2k so far)
> in a
> VM. I haven't got a modern version of linux so would like
> recommendations
> on that too. I hear and believe this thing with VMs is a growing
> trend -
> Mac, Linux and even Vista have one... for the moment.
>
Hi,
If you're on Windows XP Pro or better, try Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.
Other options are VMWare, Qemu, Bochs and VirtualBox. On the Mac, you
can buy VMWare Fusion to run Windows but I found the VM completely
inaccessible. Setting up the software wasn't bad but VoiceOver was of
no use at all within Windows as one might expect. I didn't get a chance
to install a Windows screen reader. If you have the resources, VMs have
great potential. I would say that a minimum setup to run a VM
effectively would be 2 GB of RAM, 250 GB of disk space and a very fast
processor. The reason for the large amount of disk is that you're
creating a virtual image with a virtual hard drive. If you want a 100
GB virtual drive, that comes from your main hard drive plus overhead
space for the host OS and VM software.
Another option if you're on Windows XP or better is VMWare Server which
is free. I was able to set up and install a Win98 VM with sighted
help. It was slow but it worked. Beware that some versions of Vista
don't allow installing to a VM in the license agreement. For Linux,
Qemu or Virtualbox have been recommended but I haven't tried them yet.
I would say from my reading that VMWare is the best overall but it is
not free software, even though VMWare Server is free of charge.
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