I have had success with VirtualBox previously and still do as long as I don't
update to the 1809 release of Windows. There is an open ticket with Oracle for
audio issues with VirtualBox and that version of Windows.
Kelly
On 11/30/18, 4:20 PM, "Mike Arrigo" <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com on behalf
of n0...@charter.net> wrote:
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...
> ancient.ali...@icloud.com
> 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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