-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just finished doing something like this as an experiment. I ended up going with orca and vmware workstation - orca won't read the buttons, but everything else reads fine. I ultimately created an unattended xp cd that installed everything (jaws, winrar, 7zip, etc), set some options, and worked - for the most part. When something didn't work, I just posted a screenshot that vmware generates (on linux in png, windows in bmp), and someone on irc was able to read it to me. vmware play is a spiky, many-facited thing that sometimes works - I couldn't get it going at all on my last try. Qeu works, but even with the accelerator it took 5 seconds upon each press of the tab key for narrator to respond. With vmware, I was able to call someone on skype and have a conversation, but sound quality improved when I plugged in a USB headset. Hope this helps, Tyler On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 08:41:24PM +0000, Monty Lilburn wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFvm3ETsjaYASMWKQRAq3gAKCmgmtO2frSAgy2gfPScBnO4Q36cwCfalYO fYc7XTpVeTjI3k/SbXICYO8= =yIzG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
