Re: VMware/JFW issues

[brent harding <bharding greenbaynet com>]

Does vmware run under x or the console prompt? If under x, how do you boot
up with it? Can windows be on a different partition? I kind of want to do
this because others in my family use windows, and I want to run stuff that
needs to always stay on which runs in linux, and a laptop for the main
linux machine won't work too good, I've never even tried linux on that yet,
I don't know what brands of hardware and what type of disk connections are
used. It's a dell inspiron 3500, they make servers and stuff, but I don't
need those huge 100 gb disk systems just to run a moo, a couple of email
lists, and a small ftp system for friends to give me files I want.
I couldn't imagine how many thousands of dollars those machines might cost.
At 03:01 PM 6/27/00 -0500, you wrote:
>>>>>> "Watson," == Watson, Keith <kwatson grtk com> writes:
>
>    Watson,> This said, think about what VMware is doing. It's
>    Watson,> emulating an OS. When JFW installs in the emulation what
>    Watson,> is being fed to the video chain is not being fed directly
>    Watson,> back through to the hardware. Its being routed back
>    Watson,> through the original OS and then to the hardware. This
>    Watson,> would tend to make me believe that JFW would give you
>    Watson,> partial to no response.
>
>Hrm. IIRC, VMWare emulates an X86, not an OS. If I understand your
>above explanation correctly, then JFW intercepts the stream before it
>reaches the video card. (I'm thinking it has to do more, since simply
>intercepting a stream isn't enough.) I'm not sure how VMWare's X86
>emulation would factor into this. Furthermore, I don't know how the
>fact that VMWare reflects the data to Linux would effect this either,
>since then I would have received no response instead of partial
>response.
>
>Anyhow, just a quick update. HJ has responded and refused to support
>running JFW under VMWare. So, I went to a competitor. :) So far the
>WindowEyes 3.1 demo exhibits none of the symptoms which the JFW demo
>did. My only problem is that internet explorer doesn't speak, but I
>have an older version which I'll try upgrading later today and,
>according to the documentation, that should resolve the issues which
>I'm having. I'll send a message here if I manage to get everything
>working. So far everything is running smoothly however; I have VMWare
>and WindowEyes running on TTY12 using my SBLive for speech synthesis
>and Emacspeak for everything else. I can even play MP3's under Linux
>while windows/VMWare uses the soundcard for synthesis. :)
>
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