vmware tools are not required for the virtual machines to be usable; they help with time synchronization. You can install vmware tools inside a virtual machine from the console; however it'l knock your network connection out when it updates the drivers. Regards, Kerry. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zachary Kline" <Z_kline@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 9:19 AM Subject: Re: VmWare Tools and Speakup > 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 at romuald.net.eu.org> > 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 >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
