Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 20/11/2014 23:22, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'll be able to run some tests in about 2 to 3 hours after I finish this document. Let me know what I should look at? on a side note, a pointer to an automated install process would be wonderful. GNOME Boxes can pretty much automate the install

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/21/2014 09:06 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 20/11/2014 23:22, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'll be able to run some tests in about 2 to 3 hours after I finish this document. Let me know what I should look at? on a side note, a pointer to an automated install process would be wonderful.

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-21 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 21/11/2014 17:52, Eric S. Johansson wrote: 4384 libvirt+ 20 0 2825112 2.058g 9960 R 109.1 26.6 12:47.73 qemu-system-x86 next report after updates install btw, would you like a better UI design for a management tool? I have some ideas but would need someone with hands to put

next puzzle: Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/21/2014 11:52 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: 4384 libvirt+ 20 0 2825112 2.058g 9960 R 109.1 26.6 12:47.73 qemu-system-x86 next report after updates install next puzzle. updates are not working using bridged to eth0 using virt io driver (checked install on windows) browser works

Re: next puzzle: Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-21 Thread Eric S. Johansson
a little more info On 11/21/2014 01:24 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: next puzzle. updates are not working using bridged to eth0 using virt io driver (checked install on windows) browser works in vm (quite well in fact) watching output of tcpdump and there is no apparent traffic for updates.

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-20 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/18/2014 9:57 AM, Eric S. Johansson wrote: That's great to know. I will spin up a version of Windows 7 and give it a try given that I'm not looking at it, I can strip it down to the barest user interface elements and improve performance significantly. I tried it and it took me

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-20 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 20/11/2014 17:28, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'm accustomed to lesser performance on virtual machines. That's the hazard of a running on old and slow laptop (dell e6400 (2.2ghz core duo, 8gb ram)[1]) but even virtual box is not this slow. So what am I doing wrong? It would be nice to use

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-20 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/20/2014 4:48 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 20/11/2014 17:28, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'm accustomed to lesser performance on virtual machines. That's the hazard of a running on old and slow laptop (dell e6400 (2.2ghz core duo, 8gb ram)[1]) but even virtual box is not this slow. So what

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-18 Thread Paolo Bonzini
On 18/11/2014 07:48, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'm trying to figure out ways of making it possible to drive Linux from Windows speech recognition (NaturallySpeaking). The goal is a system where Windows runs in a virtual machine (Linux host), audio is passed through from a USB headset to the

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-18 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 11/18/2014 02:50 PM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: On 18/11/2014 07:48, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I'm trying to figure out ways of making it possible to drive Linux from Windows speech recognition (NaturallySpeaking). The goal is a system where Windows runs in a virtual machine (Linux

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-18 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/18/2014 8:50 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: I'm adding two people who might know. Do you have any idea what the magic to pipe data back to the Linux host should look like? Does a normal serial port (COM1 for Windows, /dev/ttyS0 for Linux) work? The fine magic comes in three forms.

Re: can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-18 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 11/18/2014 8:53 AM, Hans de Goede wrote: kvm's usb pass-through should be able to handle this without any issues (other then some latency), it uses special buffering for isochronous usb packets, which should take care of usb audio working. I've never tested audio recording, but audio

can I make this work… (Foundation for accessibility project)

2014-11-17 Thread Eric S. Johansson
this is a rather different use case than what you've been thinking of for KVM. It could mean significant improvement of the quality of life of disabled programs like myself. It's difficult to convey what it's like to try to use computers with speech recognition for something other than writing