VirtualBox

[John G Heim]

The dialog boxes you interact with to do things like start/stop virtual 
machines in virtualbox are somewhat accessible with orca. I have never 
tried to create a virtual machine via the virtualbox gui though. I 
always use bash scripts. Here are links to 2 of my scripts. Keep in mind 
that they were both written for my own use so they are not the most user 
friendly scripts in the world.


First, this script creates a virtual machine with a 32 Gb disk, 2Gb of 
ram, and one cpu. It then boots from a grml iso.

http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/pub/grml


Second, this script creates a vm with a 96Gb disk, 2Gb ram, and 1 cpu. 
It then bootsfrom a Win7 installation iso and installs Win7 via an 
answer file on a virtual floppy.

wget http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/pub/win7-64




I'm not sure how helpful that second script will be without the answer 
file. There are plenty of instructions out there for creating an answer 
file for Win7 but it's a lot of work. I'd share my answer file but it 
has passwords in it. They're encrypted but I don't think I can put them 
out there anyway.





6 10:24 AM, Janina Sajka wrote:
> Hi, Fernando:
>
> I actually know this one! <grin>
>
> If you rely on screen readers you need to rely on VirtualBox from the
> command line, or from a scripted environment. The graphical interface
> isn't accessible to Orca. I believe it's kde, and we still haven't
> really broken through to accessibility on kde.
>
> Janina
>
> Fernando Botelho writes:
>> Thanks anyway Janina,
>>
>> Back in the day, I liked the fact that VirtualBox allowed one to do a lot of
>> things via the command line. I imagine all of that remains available. But I
>> will let more experienced current users comment.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Fernando

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