The issue with vboxheadless is to interact at all with your OS (unless you're doing it over ssh or something) you need to connect with an rdp client, which raises its own accessibility issues. I've successfully ran virtualbox started from a gnome session, and it worked well from what I remember, other then all the GUI stuff being inaccessible which really isn't a big deal. Qemu with the curses patch is another option, and would most likely outperform bochs. On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 04:22:32PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 06:00:04PM -0500, Chris Brannon wrote: > > I haven't had any luck with qemu or virtual box. > > I don't run any sort of X environment over here, and they want it. > > Virtualbox doesn't strictly require X, since it can be used using the > vboxheadless interface. There was a bug report a while back in the > virtualbox bug tracking system, and the dependency for X when building > from source was removed as far as I know. I do see that debian's > virtualbox-ose package depends on X, and my guess is that it strictly > shouldn't, though I could see why it does, since most people probably > don't want to run using vboxheadless, in which case you do need X. If > you find that your distribution's virtualbox package depends on X, try > grabbing the tarball from virtualbox.org, and building from > source. Note though that I haven't yet used virtualbox on a GNU/Linux > host as of now, so this is based only on what I read on the vbox-users > list, and I do stand to be corrected. > > > Bochs can run Linux, but it takes a long time to boot with the average live CD. > > This emulator is a good fit for people who are experimenting with small > > operating systems. Want to hack on your very own toy kernel? Bochs is > > definitely the ticket. > > It's also good for people who want to run x86 software, (including M$ > windows), on a non-x86 architecture, such as the old M68K macs > (assuming they're powerful enough to run bochs), or a Sun spark > machine, to name a couple, since bochs is a true emulator, and not a hypervisor. > > 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 v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAknmbDgACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyArHQCbBb4a39xkLofOmi4Ui5as4G4e > zOIAn2ifYlT0sIhw0Bdfmajy/bieOkQG > =rgum > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- lp1 on fire -- One of the more obfuscated kernel messages
