Oh. I was confused when you said
"you can't set up vertual machines with parilells"
when it seemed like that's what I was doing.
CB
hank smith wrote:
vurtual machines is what you are running in fusion or pairilells
Hank
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X
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Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:11 AM
Subject: Re: Questions about Parallels
What do you mean by virtual machines? I currently run two instances
or virtual machines. One with XP and IE6 and one with XP and IE7.
Works ncie for testing web development stuff. I hadn't really hit any
issues with Jaws under parallels but I mostly use it to test web
accessibility so there may be problems outside the web browser. My
understanding is that the video intercept was some kind of screen
scraping system for old ill-behaved windows apps, so it may not
really be needed for web browsers.
CB
hank smith wrote:
not only that but you can't set up vertual machines with parilells
and I have ran in to jaws reading issues with fusion as well
----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Blouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS
X by theblind" <discuss@macvisionaries.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:24 AM
Subject: Re: Questions about Parallels
I was attempting to install Jaws on my Parallels instance of
Windows XP and couldn't seem to get the video intercept thing to
work. First time I would start Jaws it complained that video
intercept was not installed so I let it install. After that
Parallels had startup issues and wouldn't work again until I
reinstalled the Parallels Tools, which installs their video driver
again. Anyone else run into this? How important is the video
intercept thingy? My initial playing around seemed to work as far
as Jaws reading web pages in IE and such. I had similar issues with
VMWare on Windows. Yes, I was running an instance of Windows in a
VM on Windows. I was doing that so I could install IE7 without
wiping out my IE6. Anyway, it appears that all these virtual
machines have their own custom video driver and don't play well
with the Jaws one.
CB
Josh de Lioncourt wrote:
Parallels Desktop for Mac is a program that creates a virtual
second computer when it is run. It is on this virtual computer
that you install another operating system, like Windows. So, yes,
you install Parallels first. As has already been pointed out,
Fusion is another option from VMWare which does essentially the
same thing with better accessibility, although Parallels is usable
once you have your OS installed.
Josh de Lioncourt
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On Sep 10, 2007, at 5:21 PM, John Moore wrote:
I am aiming to get a MacBook with Parallels so I can run XP Pro. I
have a few questions. First, how accessible is it? Will I be able to
use it effectively and independently? Second, I'd like to know how I
can switch back and forth between Windows and Mac as I am in a
program
where I need to study Windows, but I still want to do Mac on the
side.
And finally, do I need to install Parallels before Windows? If I do,
how can I install Windows after that? Thanks for the help.
--
John Moore
