Mattias, You can create your vm with the command line interface in less than a minute and its free. i will continue to use VirtualBox. It's working fine for me and meets my needs. To start your vm you can also do that from the command line through gnome-terminal. Best regards, Christian On 2008-10-22 at 23:59 mattias wrote: >install vmware instead >much simpler to create a machine >On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 17:59 +0200, Christian wrote: >> Hi Jon, >> I have had no problems running either WIndow-Eyes or Jaws on VirtualBox. >> You need to install the VirtualBox drivers into Windows after you have >created your virtual machine. >> >> >> On 2008-10-22 at 12:20 Jon wrote: >> >> >Hi, >> > >> >Sadly the virtualbox virtual machine seems to have issues with its >> >display drivers, or at least jaws could not install its video intersept >> >successfully. Using VMware 6.5.0 jaws has no problems installing the >> >video intersept. VMware can also be controlled and configured from the >> >command line, so there should not be any major issues there. >> >VMware workstation 6.5.0 >> > >> >Yes, evaluation version for 30 days, but just create the default >> >machines that you wish to have, and burn them to dvd or suchlike, then >> >for your day to day use, use the VMplayer, which has no restriction on >> >evaluation. >> > >> >by the way, vmware workstation 6.5.0 graphical interface is very >> >accessible with orca in ubuntu. >> > >> >If you still decide to give a go for virtual box and window eyes, >please >> >let us know how it goes, it would be intresting to see if it was just >> >jaws, or if window eyes has the same issue with video intersept. >> > >> >Hope this helps. >> > >> >-Jon >> >On Wed 22/10/2008 at 06:38:42, Lars Bj?rndal 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? >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> Lars >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list