Hey Fonzie
The accessibility of Virtualbox 2.1.0 is about the same as 2.0.6 was.
Not surprising, as Virtualbox uses QT for its interface, so improved
accessibility is dependent on QT's accessibility itself being
improved. To use sliders, use the tab key to get to the slider and use
the standard arrow keys. The percentage won't be announced, however
you can tab to the text field right after the slider to read the
value, then tab back to adjust it some more. Not optimal, but doable.
This is due to a bug in QT's accessibility at the moment. Some of the
lists aren't accessible, they're just reported as "unknown."
Fortunately, everything in Virtualbox can also be done through the
command-line, so for those few aspects that just aren't accessible
enough in the GUI there is a way to set these options.
Whether it will give Fusion a run for its money depends on what you
are doing with it. If you don't need hardware acceleration (a.k.a 3d
DirectX Video in Windows) it actually performs much faster than fusion
in most cases and with less resource usage. Additionally, it's
configuration options are much more advanced than Fusions, the
downside however is that you're expected to know what the options do,
and if you're unfamiliar with some of the more technical aspects of
virtualization some of these can be a bit daunting at first.
Additionally, there are no "easy install" wizards as there are in
Fusion. All operating systems have to be installed manually through
their standard setup procedures, i.e. for Windows you'd need an
unattended installation cd prepared.
Once set up however I find it performs very well, in most cases much
better than Fusion. However, as you noted, certain hardware
accelerations aren't as good, this particularly affects DirectX gaming.
My advice, for those who are wondering which one to use, is to try
them both out and see which fits your situation the best.
On Dec 24, 2008, at 06:52, Fonzie wrote:
Hey all, how is it going?
Whoah, it's super early here in texas, and I am up looking up news?
Oh well eh?
Anyhow, back to what I wanted to posted about.
I noticed that on December 17, Virtual Box 2.1.0 was released.
Has anyone tried it out with VoiceOver? I know several of you keep
track of virtualization software, so thought I would post it out
there to see what you guys thought.
Currently using Fusion myself. Perhaps Virtual Box 2.1.0 would give
VMWare Fusion a run for it's money? Only time will tell, and maybe
in later versions this could happen.
Take care all.
Best,
Fonzie
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