Hello All, Recently I have been toying with the idea of running a virtual machine on my Linux/Debian box. Ultimately my aim would be to have Windows XP running as a guest O/S on my Debian host machine. I would hope to be able to run Jaws on the Windows XP guest O/S too. As a trial, I have been attempting to use Qemu. Before attempting to get the Windows XP going, I thought I would try something relatively simple like loading a Speakup/softsynth equipped Knoppix ISO. Although the this kind of works in that I do get to a Knoppix prompt, I normally don't seam to have any joy with the speakup part. It did work once but I don't know what qemu switches/configuration I used that time and it is proving to be difficult to duplicate. Since this is turning out to be somewhat futile, I wonder if anyone has any better suggestions on how to successfully get a VM going? I've heard that VMPlayer works quite well but I understand that I would need to have X-windows installed on my Debian box. In order to do this (unless I am wrong) I would need to first install Gnoppornicus or Orca to make the X-windows/Gnome environment accessible to even install the VMPlayer. Maybe there is a way around this? The last time I attempted to install Gnoppornicus on my Debian box it failed miserably in that the packages didn't go in smoothly and I think all that spoke was the initial welcome message. I digress!!! So if anyone has any thoughts they would be much appreciated. Best regards, Monty
