Category: Geeks r Us
Yesterday, I went to the Sonar website and discovered that they have a new version, 14.1. I downloaded it, burned the iso to cd, and loaded it into my Elitebook. It worked perfectly, and I was able to set up and use my wireless connection and try out Firefox, which, I was surprised to learn, worked almost exactly as it does in Windows. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to get my settings to save, and when I am away from the computer for a short amount of time, it starts asking me for a password, which I cannot create or edit, presumably because I am running a live session.
I don't want to install Sonar on this machine, but wanted to do so on an XP machine that Lee gave me for experimenting. But the bios is not set to boot from cd. So I decided to try Virtual Box. I downloaded the file and then read Chapter 1 of the manual.
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.html#intro-installing
But does it work with NVDA and how can I quickly get started. They talked about all sorts of different things, and right now, all I want to do is to create this Sonar machine and run it. Is there anything that I should know before doing this? How easy is it to get to the menus for saving the machine and working with it, etc? Since I won't be usin the host system, should I try full screen mode, so that I don't accidentally alt tab out of the virtual machine? If so, how do I do this? Finally, is it safe to install this on XP? I do not have anything on that laptop, so don't care if it's hacked, but I would still like to avoid it. I just don't want to try this in my Elitebook and harm my Windows 7 installation in some way. Also, if I wanted to do the reverse, and install XP on a native Linux machine, would I be able to do so, or would it be like installing from scratch, with no speech? Thanks.
I posted this to the NVDA list and was told that, while Virtual Box can work graphically with NVDA, it works far better under the commandline. If it's like DOS, I should be okay, though I still need to learn the commands. I hope that this won't prove to be too difficult, as I would like to learn how to use Sonar, which will be a project in itself! If anyone knows of another accessible program for making and working with virtual machines, please let me know.
I just received a message from another member of the list who offered to help me offlist. He is very well-versed in using this program, and says it's the most accessible one out there, and that the commands are, indeed, like MSDOS, so I should be fine. This is a very good thing.
VMWare Player is also another option. It's not as fully functional as their workstation product, but it's free, and will do everything you need, with an accessible GUI.
--Al
are you saying I could use VMWare Player and install j windows 10 tech preview with jaws16 beta as a demo mode in that version of windows 10?
You should be able to do that with both Virtual Box and VMplayer.