Re: [orca-list] Accessible virtualization

[John G Heim <jheim math wisc edu>]

I like VirtualBox because you can do everything at the command line. I 
haven't found anything in VirtualBox that you cannot do at the command 
line although  sometimes you have to do a lot of googling to find it. A 
good example is changing the shortcut key. The default is Right-Alt I 
think. I changed it to scroll lock so long ago I'm not really sure. Its 
really nice having the VirtualBox key be scroll lock. Its not used for 
anything and its right next to the default orca key.

I wrote a bash script to allow me to quickly create a Windows 10 virtual 
machine. All I have to do is run this script and in about 10 minutes I 
have a brand new Win 10 virtual machine. It needs a Win 10 installation 
ISO and an answer file. I use it primarily to test the Win 10 answer 
file but I think it can serve as a good source for examples of how to 
use the VirtualBox command line programs.

https://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/pub/win10-64

As I said, I am providing the script as a source for examples of using 
the VirtualBox command line. But if you use it for real, it will prompt 
you for the virtual machine name, location of your Win 10 iso and answer 
file. You can force it to skip the prompts by setting environmental 
variables before running the script.  For example:

export VMNAME=win10-64
export BootImage=~/Downloads/Windows10_398402.iso
export AnswerFile=~/Documents/autounattend.xml

If you don't supply an answer file, it will still boot from your Win 10 
iso allowing you to do an install via Narrator. If you don't supply a 
Windows installation iso, it will try to PXE boot. If you do supply a 
Win 10 anser file, you'll need sudo access to run the script. That's 
because it creates a diskette image, mounts the diskette, writes the 
answer file to it, unmounts the image, and puts it into the virtual 
diskette drive in your virtual machine. Pretty slick but it does require 
sudo to mount and unmount the diskette image.

On 2/8/20 2:57 PM, Pavel Vlček via orca-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to try virtualize some systems. My selected distribution Fedora 
> doesn't support Vmware installation and Virtualbox supports really a lot 
> of systems. Is some new situation about accessibility? Someone who uses 
> virtualbox, can you give me some tips and tricks, how to use with Orca?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pavel
>
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