Good afternoon,
One good reason to run Windows using bootcamp is so that you can
decide which OS to load when the computer starts. Perhaps you don't
have a lot of memory and you want to run a memory intensive program in
Windows, using bootcamp will not load OS X, saving you some memory.
But, if you want access to that same installation of Windows while OS
X is running you can still get to it with Fusion.
Another reason is that even if you never load Windows alone at
startup, it is still there incase something happens to your OS X
install to make it unusable.
HTH,
Everett
On 21-Jan-09, at 5:29 PM, Tiffany D wrote:
I'm confused. why would you run Fusion with Bootcamp? I thought you
only needed Fusion to run Windows? Also, how well does NVDA or Hal
work under Fusion?
On 21/01/2009, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote:
Simon,
I would strongly suggest that you download a newer version of Jaws
and install it on your bootcamp partition. I used version 9 with no
problem. After you get this working under bootcamp, then restart
under fusion. This will allow you to experiment with windows and
your
version 7 of jaws. I have installed jaws 10 this afternoon and it is
working fine. When you install the vmware tools a windo is soposto
pop up like a drive is discovered. Windows asks you what you would
like to do. You have the option to look at the files in windows
explorer or run the setup. You choose the setup and the tools
install
just like any other windows application. Good luck Have a great day.
Scott
On Jan 21, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Simon Cavendish wrote:
Well, Listers, if I ever thought running fusion was going to be
plain sailing, I should eat my words.
So, I now have Fusion installed and I try to run my Windows choosing
bootcamp partition. I go to vmware menu and choose "power on".
Windows starts booting and I hear my Jaws 7.1 introducing itself.
Then nothing. I command tab and all I hear is either fusion or
finder. I don't know where my windows is In vmware menu it seems
that it should be running because "shut" option is available and
indeed when I choose it, I can hear a lot of familiar noise in the
machine so windows is shutting down. Why can't I get to it? Or is
that Jaws crashes or doesn't speak? Is this because I run version
7.1?
Secondly, when I try to run bootcamp partition in Fusion, I get a
message to install vmware tools but only after windows has booted. I
choose install vmware tools. But I wait and wait and nothing happens
apart from the fact that there is now a "cancel" button in vmware
menu where "install vmware tools" was. But nothing happens. Do I
need to wait longer than two mintues? Would the tools have been a
part of my Fusion .dmg? Or is fusion trying to get the tools from
the internet?
I feel I'm nearly there, but not quite. Any observations would be
very helpful.
With best wishes
Simon
