Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Linux/Windows virtualization with screen readers and a braille display involved

I would think that a braille display would connect like any other USB device. Sent from Ninehttp://www.9folders.com/ ________________________________ From: Bram Duvigneau Sent: May 28, 2017 10:28 To: Blind sysadmins list; Sean Murphy Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Linux/Windows virtualization with screen readers and a braille display involved Hello, I use a Linux VM for development all the time. I run it in VMWare Workstation and just use VMWare's GUI to connect the braille display. For completeness, Windows is the host operating system. I played around to get BRLTTY running on the Windows side, connect NVDA to BRLTTY and connect BRLTTY in the VM to BRLTTY on the host for easier switching, but couldn't get that to work as of yet. VirtualBOX's GUI on WIndows is also quite accessible and you should be able to get the same setup going in Virtualbox. Don't try Hyper-V, it's not suited for this use case. To connect HID braille displays in VMWare you might need to set an option to show all HID devices, which is off by default. Also, if you have a braille display that uses a USB-serial converter inside, directly connecting the serial port to the VM is also an option. If you prefer Linux as a host, there is another option I didn't try. KVM has an option to connect a braille device to the VM. That emulates a Baum braille display and communicates with BRLTTY on the host system. That should give you seamless access to the braille display in the VM, in theory. Hope this helps, Bram On 25-5-2017 14:24, 'Jason White' via Blind-sysadmins wrote:

Sean Murphy wrote:

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Do you require a pure Linux environment or could you get away with the windows 10 creators developer Linux environment?Jaws or NVDA will work with this environment and so will your braille display. Just an idea. Otherwise you will have to use VMWare.

I think it's an open question at the moment. Microsoft have implemented (as I understand it) some of the Linux system calls, but not everything. As soon as I need something which lies outside the scope of what they've implemented, I'll need a virtual machine.

One option, of course, is to go ahead with the hardware purchase and then experiment on the software side.

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