Hi everyone, Thanks for your replies, they have been of great help. I still havenøt solved the basic problem of redirecting the output to a console, mostly because -nographic does not work on Windows ports of Qemu...
There already are Linux operating systems that ship with screen readers that read the graphic desktops built in, so I would only want to run text-based operating systems (FreeBSD, for example - I've heard that is almost pure command line and I'd like to check it out if possible. I know tha Debian is) Sadly, I couldn't get the -serial option to work either - here's the command line that I used to start qemu with: qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -hda linux.img -soundhw all -localtime -M isapc - serial tcp:127.0.0.1:5555,server -nographic that should, in theory, allow me to get the output into a telnet client? I hadn't thought about piping Festival on a Windows box - but I'd like to see if I can get this to work first before I try that. Any other suggestions or anything else I could try? I look forward to hearing from you and thank you very much for your help. Best regards, Peter. > Hi Peter, > > there already exists a QEMU command line option -nographic which > disables graphical output and redirects the first serial port > of the emulated machine to the console. > > With QEMU running Linux in text mode, this works fine - you will > "see" the boot messages and can run a shell or any text application > from the console, so it should be possible to analyse this output > with a screen reader. > > QEMU can also redirect any serial port to pipes, so some > speech synthesizer like "festival" could be connected directly. > > This URL describes the command line options -serial and -nographic: > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#TOC10 > > I have no idea how you can access graphical interfaces like MS Windows. > > Stefan > > Peter Laursen schrieb: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I have downloaded the 0.9.0 version of the Qemu source code and managed > > to compile it using MinGW and MSYS. But I face a problem with the > > compiled binary. > > > > I am blind and therefore need to redirect the output from the guest OS > > to a standard Windows console or a software speech synthesizer so that > > a screen reader will be able to read the output produced. What > > functions will I eventually need to modify? A text console would of > > course be preferred. > > My main reason for hoping to getting this to work is to allow blind > > people to experiment safely with other operating systems - it would > > also minimize the learning curve. > > > > I hope that you will be able to point me in the right directions as to > > which source files and functions I would need to change. I have > > searched through the source files and googled for documentation for the > > source code, but I didn't find any. I also searched to see if there > > were any patches that might accomplish the work - I was unable to find > > any. > > > > I look forward to hearing from you. > > > > Peter. > > > > > --