Re: [orca-list] Virtualisation software that works well with Orca

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

All the complexity with sound on Linux has kept me away from graphical
vms hosted on Linux. I had very few issues with sound on my Mac Airbook
using VMware.

So, I'm very interested to hear Mike propose qemu. I know that's very
reliable for console clients. But, Mike, are you actually getting sound,
including TTS, from qemu guest vms? Can you run NVDA in a Windows guest
on a Linux qemu host, for instance?

Janina

John G Heim writes:
> Sorry for the late reply but I was out of town last week. I use virtualbox
> all the time. But I do almost everything via the command line. The GUI for
> virtualbox has some problems but it's not totally unusable. I think you can
> do everything via the command line though. I'm not sure how virtualbox's
> support for sound compares to other hypervisors. Sound can be tricky in
> virtualbox virtual machines. I have never been able to finx an incantation
> that works every time. It always seems to me that one configuration works on
> one virtual machine and does not work the next time I try it. There are a
> lot of different combinations of parameters to set so it can be a difficult
> process to find the right one depending on the host and guest operating
> system. I suspect that is something you just have to live with on virtual
> machines in general. I haven't used vmware in a long time but it was the
> same thing then. I used to have a heck of a time getting sound working in a
> vmware virtual machine.       
>
> done.
>
>
> On 11/17/2017 04:41 AM, Nick Wood wrote:
> > Thanks both - I'll try Virt-Manager and VirtualBox - it's been a long
> > time since I've tried VirtualBox so maybe it works better these days
> > with Orca.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Nick
> >
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