That's what I understand from the advice I've received from the list.
Jaws 7.1 seems to be crashing as soon as I launch the guest operating
system in Fusion.
Best wisehs
kSimon
On 24 Jan 2009, at 04:05, Niklas Petersson wrote:
I have been monitoring this thred for a while and am I correct in
that in order to run Jaws on Windows XP with VM ware I should be
using version 8 or higher of Jaws?
Nik
On 21-Jan-09, at 3:53 PM, Scott Ford 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
