Thanks guys, I'll see if I can get something going with vmware then! Monty On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Tyler Spivey wrote: > -----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----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
