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I know there are allot of technically proficient users of #Linux #A11y here, so thought I would throw this out there. I've used #Vmware's windows desktop products for years but don't like the direction things are going. I have, for some years now, wanted to jump to running #virtualmachine guests on a Linux host and this looks like the time. My problem is that I'm still not sure which host/manager combination is easily usable by a #blind user. I'm planning on running both Windows and Linux guests. There are a ton of guest managers with web interfaces, which sounds like the way to go given that I don't think #Orca is usable and I would prefer not to use the command line/config files. I've found a list but, of course, nothing is said about how they work with screen readers. Does anyone have any experience with this? Boosts would be very gratefully received and, of course, failures are just as valuable as successes in sorting the field. #blindness
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in reply to Tech Singer

I've only used Linux virtual guests on Linux hosts, and it wasn't recently. KVM worked reliably. There is an ncurses option that lets you access the console of the guest from early in the boot process, provided you configure it to use a text console rather than video frame buffer. Consider whether to use Linux containers rather than virtual machines for some of your applications. I've heard positive comments about Distrobox.
I use Linux with Orca as my main computing environment; MacOS secondary (on a different machine).