Hi Lars and all, I have been running the latest version of VirtualBox on my Ubuntu hardy isntallation with Windows XP and Window-Eyes as my screen reader and so far it has been working fine, even though I have had some crashes. You can create your virtual machine through the command line so it's very easy to do. Best regards, Christian On 2008-10-22 at 01:45 marbux wrote: >On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Lars Bjørndal ><lars.bjorndal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hello, list! >> >> At work, I sometimes need to run Windows, although I'm using console >> based Linux (Fedora 9) for my daily basis work. As I'm making set >> files for Window-Eyes as part of my work, I sometimes needs Windows >> with Office 2000 and other times Office 2007, for instance. I thought >> therefore that using virtual machines, could be a good idea. So what I >> would like to ask you, is if this is a good idea, and whether I should >> use virtual machines under Linux, using Qemu, or should I use virtual >> machines under Windows, such as VMware? Does any one have some >> experience to share? > >I tried running Kubuntu atop WinXP using Virtual Box but the longer I >went, the less sense it made to me to have the least stable OS as the >host and the more stable OS as the guest. Now I run Kunbuntu 8.04 as >the host and try not to use it more than I absolutely have to, with >another instance of Kubuntu 8,04 and WinXP running as virtual guests. > >I try to avoid using the host OS as much as possible so it remains as >stable as possible. So it's been stripped of most apps. > >It is very easy to create virtual machines with VirtualBox, far easier >thanw with VMWare. Setting up the network shares and clipboard >sharuing is a bit more troublesome because the documentation for that >is less than outstanding. But folks are very helpful on the forums. ><http://forums.virtualbox.org/>. > ><http://www.virtualbox.org/>. > >But a caveat; I am sighted, so there may be pitfalls there I am unaware of. > >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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list