-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:25:09PM -0000, alex wallis wrote: > So does it look like using vmware might be the only option I have? No, vmware isn't the only virtual machine emulator out there. I can think of at least 2 more, and there might even be more that I'm not aware of. The first one is qemu http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ which I myself didn't like that much, but others on here have reportedly had great success using it to run gnu/linux under windows. Another product which I personally use, and am for the most part happy with is virtualbox: http://www.virtualbox.org Its major drawback is that the gui is for the most part inaccessible. However, if you don't mind using the vboxmanage.exe command-line management program, you can do everything from creating to running to managing virtual machines. Also note that as of now, though virtualbox supports presenting physical serial ports to the guest there is a handshake problem which others including myself have reported, but which innotek hasn't acknowledged so far. What this means to you is that you can install a distribution of gnu/linux inside virtualbox using speakup and a hardware speech synth, but for long-term use, you'll want to setup software speech. I'm running virtualbox on a system with a 1.1 GHz cpu with 512Mb of RAM, and it's running nicely. The virtual machine I have configured in virtualbox is a debian gnu/linux distribution running in text mode (no gui via gnome/orca) which has 128Mb of RAM assigned to it, and it runs very nicely for me using software speech pretty much all of the time, as opposed to using a hardware synth. Hth somewhat at least. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHy14P7s9z/XlyUyARAnmVAKC8DR/AY++CnE/G3oqwH0VIPHRlWwCeJ5Ia nQm+Wtou7JorwgEzZCNTDxc= =EmEn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
