[BRLTTY] an accessible VM to run Linux on

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Thu Sep 21 09:51:45 EDT 2006


Jason White, le Thu 21 Sep 2006 16:40:51 +1000, a écrit :
> Another virtualization solution that has received much attention on Linux
> Weekly News over the last year or two, is Xen.
> 
> As I understand it, the guest OS runs natively on the machine, under a
> modified host kernel. I don't know how access to the underlying hardware is
> managed or how BRLTTY would be granted permission to control devices connected
> via USB or serial ports.

No issues at all: Xen just runs above a usual Linux kernel (though a bit
patched). Other "virtual machines" (called guests) can be run and
managed via text tools, so there is really absolutely no accessibility
problem here :)

Samuel


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