On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:00 PM, John Heim <jheim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I guess my original question was kind of dumb. What I am trying to do is > install the vmware infrastructure, esx. It boots from a CD like a debian or > redhat installation. So that's not going to be accessible via speakup. > Unless the vmware engineers thought to build speakup into their kernel. Not > too likely. This may be wide of the mark because I managed to miss the beginning of this conversation. But here goes anyway. :-) Have you tried using VirtualBox rather than VMware? <http://www.virtualbox.org/>. It is far easier to create virtual machines with VB. Audio works, although it requires a setting selection in VB to use it. You could run any version of Linux that works with speak-up as a virtual machine under VB. I don't know how accessible VB is itself, but I have four variants of Linux plus Solaris available running as guests on my Windows XP host, with sound working on all of them. You'd have to comprehend just how ignorant of virtual machines I was to appreciate the fact that these are all virtual machines I created myself using VB. On the other hand, I never succeeded in building a custom virtual machine using VMware. I am now aiming at completely redoing my system, running a very small Linux system as the host rather than WinXP, and virtualizing WinXP plus a Linux distribution as guests, doing all of my work in virtual machines rather than on the host system. (It seems to me that the most stable system should be the host, so I plan not to install any software to it other than VB.) For what it is worth, VB is cross-platform and is licensed under the GPL. My only real criticism of VB so far is that the documentation needs improvement. The documentation assumes more knowledge of virtual machines than I had. But the VB community forums have proved to be very helpful. It takes an engineer to create a virtual machine with VMware. Joe Sixpack can do it with VB. Best regards, Paul E. Merrell, J.D. (Marbux) -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list