[BRLTTY] qemu
Samuel Thibault
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Sun Apr 5 09:45:28 EDT 2009
Mario Lang, le Sun 05 Apr 2009 15:38:19 +0200, a écrit :
> Daniel Dalton <d.dalton at iinet.net.au> writes:
> > could a blind person load windows this way and run a windows
> > screenreader and use the guest os (windows)?
>
> I do this occasionally, but I do use VirtualBox instead of qemu. I
> think performance is way better in VirtualBox.
You can also use the kvm version of qemu to get the same kind of
performance.
> Additionally, VirtualBox supports USB pass-through which you can use
> to natively run a braille display (or a USB dongle) in the guest OS.
Qemu also suports that through -usbdevice host:0458:004c
> P.S.: It would be way cooler to have a BrlAPI driver for JAWS though :-).
> Since NVDA uses BRLTTY, I wonder if this is already possible, haven't tried.
It should. Actually I even thought about defining a virtual USB braille
device that just talks BrlAPI, to make that automatic.
Samuel
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