Mark, Yes and no. No I have not had any luck getting my original virtual machine to work with Fusion 4. The only way I was able to get it to stay booted was to have my daughter cancel the tools install as soon as the vm booted. This way I was able to get my Favorites off the vm. I never stored any files on the vm, always saved to the share area on my Mac so that everything got backed up.
Now to the success that I have had. I created a new 64 bit Windows 7 vm and have not had any issues so far. Every thing went well with the install of my screen reader and now the only problem I am having is getting Winblows 7 back to Classic view on everything. Keith On Sep 18, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Mark Colman wrote: > Hi guys, > > Just to add to the council of despair: > > I've been having similar problems with a Windows XP virtual machine > and Window Eyes 7.5 after upgrading to Fusion 4. Whether I upgrade the > VM or not (I think this has more to do with the Mac side rather than > within Windows itself, as VMWare Tools upgrades itself regardless of > this choice), I get to the stage of Window Eyes wanting to reboot > having discovered there's been a new graphics driver installed, then > Windows restarts and I get the blue screen of death during the reboot, > it then restarts and sticks on the XP startup splash screen. > > I've now reverted to a backup of the virtual machine a few times, > trying: > - cancel Tools upgrade, remove Window Eyes, reboot, let the Tools > upgrade, reboot and install WE again > - repeat the above, but use my original WE 7.1 installation disk > rather than the upgraded 7.5 one. > In both cases the same thing happens. > > I'm going to try building a new XP VM tomorrow that has never seen > Window Eyes, then install it and see how it goes, maybe will try a > Win7 VM also, but I can't say I'm particularly hopeful. Failing this > will just have to accept I've blown the £40 I spent on the Fusion 4 > upgrade and put version 3 back on. Real shame as I've been a happy > Fusion+WE user for a couple of years and this is literally the first > problem I've had. > > Anyone had any more positive experience? > > Mark > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
