Hello everyone. I'm having an issue with VMWare Fusion. I'm trying to connect mhy Victor Reader. I used to connect it and when I did, VMWare Fusion gave me a choice. Now it doesn't. The Stream connects to the Mac and I cann't get VMWare to take control of it even from the usb menu. I suspect that I inadvertently told VMWare to connect it to the Mac and inadvertently checked the box telling VMWare not to give me a choice. Can anyone tell me how to fix this? I want to download an Audible book and store it on the stream.
Thanks so much. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sean Murphy Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2012 4:18 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: VMWare Fusion questions Hello to all. I wish to clear up some possible misunderstandings that people have with the virtualisation route. Depending on available resources on your Mac will determine how to configure the VMWare. If you have a Mac with 8gb of physical memory. VMWare states only to use a maximum of 50% of the physical memory for the guess OS. This is more then enough memory for a 64 bit OS which would be 4gb for the guess. If you are planning to use a 32 bit OS, then I wouldn't allocate more then 3 gb of physical memory for a 8 gb PC. If you have 4gb physical RAM, then I would use the rule of thumb of no more then 50% and allocate accordingly. In relation to the virtual hard drive that you set up for the guess OS. This is really up to you how much you allocate. The rule of thumb I use is around 40 to 50 gb. I generally find this is more then enough. I also configure the VMWare to share the documents, desktop, music, etc between Windows and the Mac. Again, I am reducing the amount of disk spaced used by the Guess windows OS by doing this. So the virtual disk is allocated for programs and those files needed by the app. The other tip is that I set up my Mac user directory as a VMWare shared drive under windows. So it is really easy to copy between both environments. Also you can launch your window app from within the Mac environment. For example, I can open the word document within windows by opening it from the Mac. This is the true power and flexibility of having windows in a virtual environment. If you are having performance issues. It is a good starting point to find out how much memory is being shared between the Mac and guess OS. How many cores are being used. I find a max of 50% of the cores available is a good guideline. EG: a duel core I would only allocate one. On my Mac Book Pro, I have 4 cores, so I allocate 2. When allocating the virtual disks, I have read somewhere that the 2gb files allocation reduces performance. When you do allocate virtual disks, they will grow as you use it to the maximum allocated. In relation to authorisation of Jaws. This is a known problem with virtual environments. It is one of those bugs that sit with the company who FS uses to set up the authentication and VMWare. It isn't a FS issues per say, rather it is their vendors problem who they use for the authentication. The pro's and cons of having FS authentication is not a discussion for this list. I haven't had any problems with the authentication of Jaws. I even back up the whole virtual directory on a periodic bases. So if the virtual guess breaks, I can replace it with a known working version. The other issues you have to be aware of is keyboard conflicts with Windows and the Mac. Voice Over is very aggressive and doesn't like anyone else using the Capslock key, control option together and any arrow key with the function key. . The Mac does not have any Insert key. So under windows, you have to remap a Mac keyboard key to an insert. This is done by an program called sharp keys. Another thing I am currently playing with is remapping the Mac keys. I am planning to remap the right option key to a right control key. Under windows, I am going to remap the right control key to a insert or caps lock. This will give me more flexibility with using Jaws commands. This is a real pain and Apple needs to address the keyboard conflict issue. Since if you use VMWare under windows. Once the control is passed to the guess OS. Windows doesn't interfere with the keys at all. One final point, if you turn off Voice Over, the cap lock issue doesn't occur. Sean -- 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.
