VirtualBox

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Fernando:

Thank you for the very kind review of my posts. Regretably, I can't live
up to that standard this time around, because I'm very much a VirtualBox
newbie myself, and unlikely to seriously roll up my sleeves for a couple
more months with the product.

To date my experience with vms has been some text consoles running
another release of Linux in a kvm. On the gui side it's all been VMware
on a Mac. I'm sufficiently disappointed with my Mac experience to want
to move on from that environment. I do need to host a foreign OS, namely
Windows 10, and VirtualBox seems the correct way to go about that on
Linux when one is constrained by accessibility concerns. However, my
experience to date with VirtualBox is very limited. I'm very much the
student in this particular computer lab.

So, I'm also eager to see what others say on the topic here.

Janina

Fernando Botelho writes:
> Janina, I swear I am not stocking you across email lists. :)
> 
> I just find your posts useful.
> 
> I liked the idea of using VirtualBox. For example, one can have a VM
> specifically for banking, which should prevent many security problems. it
> could even be setup to start from a snapshot, so anything done in one
> session is forgotten, next time the VM is activated.
> 
> I do have a simple question:
> 
> When I last tried to get my non-technical spouse to use VirtualBox,
> something that was very annoying to her, was the keyboard capture shortcuts.
> 
> Now, if I have two consoles, one with command line or even Mate, and the
> second with VirtualBox running Mate and Firefox, can I Control+Alt into the
> VirtualBox one and start using it normally?  Or will there be a process of
> keyboard capture before one can use it?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Fernando
> 
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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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