Hi guys, I am glad that this feature request is taken very seriously. This is one reason I don't use VirtualBox all that often. As I am blind I am unable to watch what is happening on the virtual machine console during guest operating system installation. So, not only is it for beginners and QA efforts, as well as saving time for advanced users, consider that it's handy for visually impaired users. Until a guest operating system is installed, one cannot install assistive software like NVDA for Windows and Orca for Ubuntu. I know Orca comes with Ubuntu, but that's not the point. It would be the same if a visually impaired person wants to install a host operating system from scratch. Sorry for the long post, but I wish to emphasize my points.
Signed by Chris Hallsworth E-mail and Facebook: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] Skype: chrishallsworth7266 Twitter: http://twitter.com/christopherh40 On 01/07/2010 9:29, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Alexey Eremenko<[email protected]> wrote: >> On 7/1/10, chris hallsworth<[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear all, including VirtualBox developers, >>> I wish to make a suggestion to your product. I would like to see it >>> automate a Windows or Linux guest operating system installation, >>> including automatically installing the VirtualBox guest additions >>> appropriate to the guest operating system. I primarily use VMware, and >>> it's an excellent feature, not only for blind or visually impaired >>> users, but also users who are novices to this area. I feel this feature >>> will also save time in following the instructions to complete guest >>> operating system installation, as well as the installation of VirtualBox >>> Guest Additions. >>> I urge you to please take my thoughts into consideration. >>> Many thanks, and keep up the good works! >>> -- >> >> Yes, I agree that this is a very important feature to have. >> >> See: >> Feature Request: (Automatic) Unattended Guest OS Install (aka Easy Install) >> http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/5810 >> >> a BIG problem is that there is no way to loop-mount floppy/CD/HDD >> images on Windows host. This would require writing drivers. > > Alexey, > > Maybe it´s a matter of getting in touch with these guys? > > http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html#ImDisk > > "You can use and redistribute the utilities and source code as you > like, but remember to link back to this site or my e-mail adress and > always attach any following text file when you redistribute the > utilities" > > "ImDisk is a virtual disk driver for Windows > NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008. It can create virtual hard disk, floppy or > CD/DVD drives using image files or system memory. The install package > installs a console-mode control program called imdisk.exe and a > Control Panel applet." > > ---------------- > Source code > Source code for all of ImDisk, including a server-part for *nix like > systems, is available as a 7-zip compressed file here (94 KB). The > Windows parts of the source code can be built in the Windows 2000 > build environemt in the latest WDK and the *nix parts can be built > with gcc. If you want to call functions for creating/removing/querying > virtual disks from your own program you can #include the file > inc\imdisk.h in your C/C++ source files and link the > cpl\i386\imdisk.lib library. If you would like information about how > to write compatible server-end software you can take a look at the I/O > packet structures in inc\imdproxy.h. > > License > I have received some e-mails with questions wether or not it is okay > to include this driver in a commercial product. The answer is yes, > just like all other tools I publish here. However, note that a few > lines of code are under the GNU GPL license, this is basically the > parts related to floppy emulation. Some of the driver code is also > ported to Windows NT from the FreeBSD 'md' driver. > ---------------- > > > FC > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint > What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? > Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
