I work in tech support and have gotten some calls from users of our
windows software having issues with a virtual machine both on Fusion
and Parallels. I've pretty much come to the conclusion that if you want
to run Windows, use a separate PC, you will have far less problems.
Original message:
Jonathan,
It is starting to look lihe running a VM is not as good a deal as a
standalone Windows machine. I am also losing faith in the VMware forums.
From E.T.'s Keyboard...
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Many believe that we have been visited
in the past. What if it were true?
On 11/30/2018 7:57 AM, Jonathan Cohn wrote:
This is the second person I have heard having issues with a Focus
display and current versions. ET was unable to get the Focus driver
installed. Does anybody know if these issues have been discussed with
VMWare? I guess the one other major issue we in the Blind community
have experienced with VMWare is that the Caps lock does not get
transferred over to the VM without major hacks. Personally, I would
love to have my Windows USB keyboard hard attached to the VM but I have
no idea if this is possible.
On Nov 28, 2018, at 10:49 AM, Pete De Vasto <pdevasto0...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Kelly,
I’ve struggled with VMWare Fusion lots as well, but do have it going
pretty much all the time now. The one trick I’ve noticed you have to do
is toggle back and forth in and out of your machine’s screen while it’s
starting up. I hope I can explain this correctly, here goes:
When your machine starts, you’ll eventually hear VO say “suspend this
guest operating system”. At that point, press Command+control+f. You’ll
probably hear VO say something like space with applications followed by
whatever is currently running, like finder, Mail, Messages or whatever.
Press Control+command+f again, and you should hear VO say “Space with
the name of your Windows machine full-screen”. At that point, you know
you are in the VMWare window. Press Control+G to give keyboard focus to
the VM machine. Oh yeah, and the keystroke to start Narrator won’t
work, because VO is picking up the Control+Windows combination as its
command. I normally do Windows+R, then type Narrator, and it does come
up. Then, to get out of Narrator, I have to alt-tab to the Narrator
Settings window, and when I press Alt+F4, Narrator does exit. If you
can get to the point where you can in fact install JAWS, it does work
pretty nicely, by the way. I started out with VMWare 10, and my USB
devices, including my Focus 40 Blue, connected just fine. But then I
tried upgrading to VMWare Version 11, and for some reason I couldn't
get any of my USB devices going, so I had to go back to version 10.
I hope this isn’t confusing, and that maybe others can chime in with
clarifications or other thoughts. Good luck and I hope you can get it going.
Pete De Vasto
On Nov 27, 2018, at 5:15 PM, kelly ford <ke...@kellford.com> wrote:
Hi,
These are probably basic questions but if there is a pointer or other
resource, I’d appreciate hearing about it. I am trying to get VMWare
Fusion to run on a MacBook Pro and not having a lot of luck. I launch
the program and it opens but then stops responding. Eventually I force
quit the program.
Does this generally work and if so any thoughts on what might be up?
I’ve used VirtualBox successfully previously on the same machine.
The machine is fully updated to the latest Mac OS.
Thank you,
Kelly
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