Hi Greg, I'd use VirtualBox in a flash if I could get the darned serial emulation to work. I haven't been able to. I always get errors about being unable to set the host port mode because the device path is empty or null. I don't know why I get these errors either, but it's beyond frustrating. It doesn't seem to make a difference whether I use Windows XP Pro or Home as a host operating system, it just always happens. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks much, Zack. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:09 PM Subject: Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I know this doesn't answer your question, but I just thought I'd throw > out there the fact that virtualbox's guest additions for gnu/linux can > be installed entirely from the text console, without requiring x. Yes, > you could install them using x as well, if you wanted to go that > route. The point is that you get a choice. > > Greg > >