Re: [orca-list] How you can help

[trev saunders gmail com]

Hi,

One question would be how to go about creating such an environment? 
OpenSolaris has that nice feature of boot environments which I imagine 
really fit well. However as I mentioned in the past I have a problem 
with the hardware support in the latest builds (on the laptop X refuses 
to start, on my desktop my better soundcard isn't supported (that's a 
must) although I believe some extrra drivers may come but they are still 
limited compared to options for Linux). Hardware support is possibly one 
of the biggest barriers for opensolaris, compared to Linux opensolaris 
has a long way to go for supporting most computers. 

You might be able to make freeBSD and xfs work the same you would for solarus.

An alternative may 
be virtual machines, but I have to say I never got them working well, 
they seem to run so slow on my systems I can't see them being practical. 
Has anyone tips for using VMs?

I've found kvm using hardware virtualization to be usably fast for this sort of work.  one thing you might 
want to fiddle with is allowing the vm more than kvm's default of 128M of ram which is probably to little for 
gnome.

Any other suggestions I have missed?

It might be possible to run gnome and orca in a chroot that has a different version from the default, but 
I've never tried.

HTH
Trev