Re: [orca-list] vm player that works with orca

[Christopher Chaltain <chaltain gmail com>]

VMware Player is free. This is all you need to create and run a virtual
machine. this is what I use with Orca on Ubuntu and in Windows with JAWS
and NVDA, and I've never had to pay for it. VMware offers other
products, such as VMware Workstation, which are not free and obviously
have more features than VMware Player. I'm sure if you Google for
"VMware Player download" you'll find it. VMware does make you register
before you can download it, but although this is a bit tedious, I've
never had a problem with it.

BTW, this is one of the reasons I'm an advocate for using correct names
of programs. The program you want is VMware Player and not VMplayer or
VMware.

On 03/02/12 16:29, Luciano de Souza wrote:
> By the way, is VMWare a free software? I searched it in Internet, but I
> fell in a sea of pages and I couldn't identify a maner to download it.
> If VMWare is not a free software, is there another virtual machine I
> could use with Orca?
>
> Em 03/02/2012 09:15, Christopher Chaltain escreveu:
> > Also, I'm not sure what is meant by VMware Player not being accessible
> > with Orca. I use it daily, and I find it accessible. BTW, I run Orca
> > 3.1.9-xdesktop on Ubuntu 11.04, and I'm using VMware Player 4.1. I run
> > Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10 as guest OS's in VMware Player.
> >
> > On 02/02/12 22:38, Jason White wrote:
> > > Andy Borka<sonfire11 gmail com>  wrote:
> > > > Does anyone know of a vm player that works withh orca? Both
> > > > virtualbox and vmware player are inaccessable.
> > > I'm not sure what you mean by a "player", but if you're just looking
> > > for a
> > > virtualization solution you could also try Kvm or Xen.
> > >
> > > Kvm will let you forward a braille device from the host operating
> > > system to
> > > the guest operating system. I haven't tried it, but it's documented.
> > > It also
> > > supports audio. If the guest system is running in text mode, (i.e., the
> > > console of the guest is text rather than a video frame buffer), you
> > > can access
> > > it directly from the host system - see the -display curses option in
> > > the qemu
> > > manual page.
> > >
> > > Xen has similar functionality for text access.
> > >
> > > With audio forwarding, you might be able to run Orca in the guest and
> > > interact
> > > with it from the host system. However, the graphical display of the
> > > guest
> > > system can't be made accessible directly on the host - you have to
> > > run Orca on
> > > the guest.
> > >
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> > > Visit http://live.gnome.org/Orca for more information on Orca.
> > > The manual is at
> > > http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-access-guide/nightly/ats-2.html
> > > The FAQ is at http://live.gnome.org/Orca/FrequentlyAskedQuestions
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Christopher (CJ)
chaltain gmail com