Re: [orca-list] OT: I need advice on using windows

[Nolan Darilek <nolan thewordnerd info>]

Check out virt-manager. Mostly accessible, uses Qemu under the hood, and 
IME *much* faster than VirtualBox.


It has a nice USB passthrough feature making using most USB hardware 
easier under Windows. If the VM launches and a device is plugged in, 
Linux uses it normally. If a device is plugged in *after* the VM boots, 
it usually routes directly to Windows (keyboards and a few other devices 
are exceptions.) With this feature, I've found that plugging in a USB 
audio device gives me very little latency, and I can do a bit of light 
real-time MIDI instrument playback without too much grief.


A second machine will always be better. But, if that isn't an option, 
I'd recommend Virt-manager over VirtualBox. I've rarely gotten very good 
vbox performance under GUIs, but Virt-manager is significantly better.

On 4/28/20 9:27 PM, José Vilmar Estácio de Souza wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> First of all forgive me for the off topic message.
>
>
> I need to do a job on a client that apparently only uses windows.
>
> The client uses teams, vpn with digital certificate, mainframe 
> emulator and most of these tools are based on the windows platform.
>
> Because of covid-19 the work will be all remote and therefore I will 
> have to use my machine, on which I only use linux.
>
> The first idea that comes to my mind is to install a windows VM and 
> use NVDA as a screen reader.
>
>
> Does anyone use an environment similar to this?
>
> Which virtual machine provider would you recommend? virtualbox, qemu, 
> vmware? ...
>
> Would anyone have a different suggestion?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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