Jennifer wrote: > I use virtual box at work. I created my virtual machine using Debian lenny, > then upgraded to Debian Unstable. I use windows with Virtual box, and find > NVDA reads better than jaws, but it doesn't read everything. Apparently you > can also access and control virtual box from the command line. > If you want to simply open virtual box and start a virtual machine that is > already set up could you or someone else not write a script to do that? This topic was batted around on the Speakup list last spring. Here's a link to the final message in the thread: http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/pipermail/speakup/2009-April/048793.html I don't believe that anyone really presented a solid method for interacting with a guest OS via the command line. Here are the options for communicating with a guest running under vbox-headless. * RDP. This one is probably not workable from the console. AFAIK, there are no command-line RDP clients. * ssh. Requires that sshd is running and properly configured in the guest. * Serial console. You might be able to use a modem program like c-kermit or minicom to communicate with the emulated serial port. I've done this in bochs. You have to tell the emulator to redirect the emulated serial port to a pseudo-terminal device. Then, connect to the pseudo-terminal with your comm program. These days, I've been using qemu with the -curses option. It works well from the console. Older versions (prior to 0.10?) didn't support the curses interface. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list