Re: VMWare/JFW issues

[brent harding <bharding greenbaynet com>]

How do you boot linux with vmware, thought it was an x-windows program. If
you do it, can I use the windows that is on my other partition, boot them
both at a time, and run linux for some stuff and windows for other things
without rebooting. I use window-eyes. Windows is on /dev/hda1 and debian is
on /dev/hda2. At 03:56 PM 6/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi. I've recently been attempting to get a working VMWare/win98
>installation using JFW, but I'm encountering quite a few strange
>problems, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced something
>like this before?
>
>I was using an ancient version of JFW 3.0, but this simply refused to
>work on windows; I received the infamous BSOD whenever JFW was
>launched. So I decided to grab the latest 3.5 demo, hoping that the
>problems would be solved.
>
>The demo starts nicely, and the intro speaks. The demo introduction
>sounds as if it's pre-recorded, while the remainder of the
>installation is synthesized speech through the soundcard. For some
>reason, the synthesized speech is pure static, though the occasional
>sound effects play nicely. Additionally, every other sound which
>windows makes works, so I'm sure the card is configured correctly. I
>know that the static is synthesized speech because I can occasionally
>make out fragments of words behind the static; I can't link this
>phenomena to anything, however.
>
>I've emailed HJ tech support, but I haven't received a response
>yet. I'm not sure if this is due to the fact that I'm only running a
>demo and there are paying customers who need help first, whether there
>is normally a few-day delay for support, or whether VMWare either
>isn't supported or isn't well-understood. :) I'm considering going to
>the VMWare folks next, but I don't know quite what to say. "Hey, guys?
>Your SB16 emulation works in 99% of the cases which I've found, but in
>this instance . . . " Plus I'm not even sure which piece of software
>is originating this problem, and I can't reboot to windows to test
>it. Has anyone else experienced this?
>
>This isn't my only problem, however. I'd like to use my soundcard,
>instead of my dectalk, for speech synthesis under VMWare. For some
>reason, when VMWare opens up the serial ports upon startup, it seems
>to bombard the port with a large amount of binary data -- such a large
>amount in fact that I can't seem to cleanly access the serial ports
>after powering down. I've tried killing every Emacspeak session on my
>system and using VMWare, but as soon as I start Emacspeak after
>powering down VMWare the gibberish starts. Restarting Emacspeak or the
>speech server doesn't solve the problem either; I'm forced to reboot
>my system. Ideally I'd like to run Emacspeak and VMWare simultaneously
>(while deactivating the Emacspeak speech server, of course), since I
>usually have dozens of Emacs buffers open, and it's a pain to reload
>all of the files and webpages which I usually have open. Has anyone
>experienced anything like this and, if so, is there a solution?
>
>Thanks.
>
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