Jason, 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. Depending on your model of Braille Display. You might be able to connect by USB and Bluetooth to both OS's at the same time. This is what I do when I want to connect to my Mac and Windows using a FS Focus Blue 40 or 80. Windows is usb and Mac is Bluetooth. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Jason White via Blind-sysadmins Sent: Thursday, 25 May 2017 9:08 AM To: blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Cc: Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Linux/Windows virtualization with screen readers and a braille display involved John G Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:
I've had my braille display connected to a virtual machine but I think it was a lot of work. You have to get the UUID of the USB device before connecting it to a vm. And the UUID is different every time you boot the vm unless you do something fancy -- exactly what that something is escapes me right now. Normally what you have to do is run a virtualbox command to list the UUID of the device and then cut/paste the UUID into another virtualbox command to connect it to the vm.
Thanks for the summary. I can, of course, do what you describe above, but as you are also suggesting, this is exactly the kind of configuring that shouldn't be necessary. Once only would be fine, but having to do it repeatedly wouldn't be. I appreciate that moving a braille device between host and guest operating systems may not be trivial, perhaps requiring it to be reset depending on its state and the nature of the communication protocol. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins