[orca-list] Resp.: Orca in VMWare

["Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt lists gmail com>]

Hello Chrois,
Two observations:
First is that the original question, from my understanding, was about
booting a ubuntu in vmware, but with vmware being hosted by another
linux machine. I never tried that and suspect that problems might
arise if you're using orca in the host and in the virtual machine at
same time, because of the problem of the sound card being multi chanel
on this senarius. While I do think there are chanses of success, I
tend to find that bootting and using an accessible linux in vmware
might not be as easy if the host machine is a linux than it currently
is if the host is a windows based one.
Second is the following: the ubuntu installation through the desktop
icon is not currently accessible. If you could achieve the
installation through that icon in ubuntu 7.04 then you could do what
nobody else could, and it's not even possible because orca can not
comunicate through acounts and, I suspect, this is the problem or one
of them with this installation method. If it worked for you I have to
ask how you did this, as I am prety interested on it. But, for must
part of the users, it is highly recomended to follow the steps below,
which are also prety well documented in the orca wiki part under the
installation on ubuntu topic.
1- Set orca, after this press ctrl+alt+backspace.
2- When you hear the musical tone, type alt+f2 and type orca.
3- Type alt+f2 and type gnome-terminal.
4- Type sudo su.
5- Tipe ins+q and confirm you want to quit orca.
6- Type orca --no-setup --disable main-window &
7- You will hear orca speaking but after this speech will stop. Type
ubiquity and the speech will back, with the installer.
8- The installation process is standard, with the only exception that
you have to press ctrl+tab to exit the city combobox.
9- Wait orca speak first, before typing anything in every install
page. If you press keys before orca starts speaking my xp show that
orca will crash.
10- I still couldn't figure out how to use the partition step, but
letting it in automatic is generally what one wants when setting up a
system on a virtual mmachine.

Other than this the process will go well.

Some tutorials about how to set the virtual machine on a vmware hosted
in windows will be available soon.
Marlon

2007/8/24, Chris Hofstader <cdh hofstader com>:
> Hi,
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Ubuntu on a Vista PC with VMWare.  It's really pretty straight
> forward.  First, download VMWare Server (it has no cost) and install it.
> Then, decide whether you want to install from an ISO CD image or an image of
> a fully built hard disk version of Ubuntu.
>
> Next, if you chose CD, start up VMWare and add a new VM.  In the hardware
> page of the dialogue, add a sound card (using the default works well), make
> a virtual hard disk, a virtual CD ROM which should point to your ISo image
> and, once the set up is complete, turn on your VM.  After a little while,
> you will hear the Ubuntu tune play.  Hit ALT-F2 and type orca and, after a
> minute or two, it will start talking and you can enter your default options
> for orca.  After that, go to the Ubuntu desktop and hit ENTER on the
> Installation icon.
>
> If you choose to install from a full Ubuntu image, find one to your liking
> with the VMWare web site search.  Download it and unpack it into the folder
> where you want it (it requires something that can unpack tar files).  When
> complete with the copying, go into the folder where you put it and hit ENTER
> on the Ubuntu VM configuration file.  This will start VMWare with your newly
> installed VM.  Make sure you read the instructions for the appliance as it
> may have users and passwords set up.
>
> Enjoy,
> cdh
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: orca-list-bounces gnome org [mailto:orca-list-bounces gnome org] On
> Behalf Of Chris Norman
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 3:06 PM
> To: orca-list gnome org
> Subject: [orca-list] Orca in VMWare
>
> Hi all,
> Has anyone managed to boot a linux virtual machine, from a linux host
> and get speech? Or even any sound at all?
>
> If so, what distros were you using?
>
> Cheers.
>
>
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>
>
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>
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