[BRLTTY] qemu/vmware/... virtual braille devices?

[Samuel Thibault]

Hi,

Samuel Thibault, le Sun 08 Apr 2007 01:25:17 +0200, a écrit :
> Dave Mielke, le Sat 07 Apr 2007 09:43:00 -0400, a écrit :
> > [quoted lines by Samuel Thibault on 2007/04/07 at 10:56 +0200]
> > 
> > >The problem is that you can't let both brlttys use the same device at
> > >the same time. You have to turn one of them off and switch back & forth,
> > >which is tedious. Or use another braille device, which is expensive.
> > >With a virtual braille device everything should work smoothly, just like
> > >for other devices (video board, mouse, keyboard, ...)
> > 
> > Rather than a virtual braille driver, why not just use the BrlAPI braille
> > driver?
> 
> That's the solution I proposed on the list where the issue was raised.
> However, this requires some not-so-trivial configuration

Which the user couldn't achieve yet.

> and it doesn't permit to test another screen reader than brltty in the
> emulated system.

Also, this requires working virtual network, which is not necessarily
easy.

Samuel