Memory-wise, that should be fine. Next would be disk performance. Since
you're on a laptop it's going to be laggy. For example, my MacBook Pro
comes with the Apple Hitachi 750GB drive which is 7200 RPM, which isn't
too bad but some machines save power with slower 4800 or 5200 rpm drives.
CB
On 2/18/14 3:32 PM, Shannon Gerdts wrote:
Hello,
Thank you guys for the responses! Our laptop we purchased has 8gb
of ram so I was thinking of giving 4gb instead of 2 to the windows
system for better response times.
Take care,
Shannon Gerdts
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Blouch
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:03 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: trying to install fusion
One bit of caution is to not starve RAM on the Mac side. Mavericks doing
nothing seems to take up about 1GB RAM. So if you are on a 4GB RAM
machine and give 2GB to your virtual machine, and VMWare taks abouther
3-400MB of overhead, that leaves just 1.5GB RAM or so for the mac side.
Open Safari and a bunch of tabs and you can start triggering virtual
memory swaps. That said, Windows is also very disk intensive, which is
why folks with SSDs are so happy with performance. Not sure why MS
designed it that way but Windows just beats on the hard drive. So if
you're on a laptop with a power sipping but slower 2.5" spinning drive,
Windows just isn't going to be as responsive.
CB
On 2/18/14 1:36 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
Hi:
To increase the memory, first, shut down the VM. Then, once it's
shut down, you can press command-e to get into settings or that VM.
You should see options for processors and memory in there. All you
do is adjust the memory size and close that screen.
Hope this helps.
On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Shannon Gerdts <bambam...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
Ok so continuing along this thread. We've now got fusion
installed, jaws installed and now noticing a bit of a problem. This
problem is when using various programs, currently we're using
mushclient, it's seemingly running a bit slow giving about a half a
second to one second lag on every command inputted.
I'm thinking this slow down is due to the fact I couldn't get the
customize settings button to work when installing windows onto
fusion so that I could adjust the amount of memory used from 2gb to
something like 4gb instead. Does anyone know if there is a way to
modify this once windows is installed or is the only way to fix this
to completely redo the windows installation on fusion and try and
get that customize button to activate?
I'll explain what I mean by not getting the customize key to
work. When I got beyond the screen where I chose the windows version
to install, the user name, windows product key, etc. it gave me the
confirmation screen and showing me how much gb of hard disc space it
would allocate, the amount of memory it would allocate, etc. It had
it set to 60gb of hard disc space by default and 2gb of memory set
by default so I wanted to try and hit on the customize settings
button after I hit my right arrow keys beyond those displays of the
default settings while using the quicknav keystrokes. I then tried
hitting the up and down arrow keys together while using quicknav,
turned off quicknav keys and hit VO spacebar, hit enter, hit space,
etc. and every single time it would seemingly always hit the finish
default button where it would want me to save the virtual machine
file and start installing windows.
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated as I feel
we're so close to having my wife up and running with everything on
her computer except for these minor adjustments to make her windows
experience much more enjoyable and doable in some cases. If we can
get this sorted out the only thing we have left to figure out is how
to use the jaws cursor, pc cursor, and left/right click commands on
windows inside fusion without a number pad and for whatever reason
the standard laptop keys don't work for this.
Take care,
Shannon Gerdts
-----Original Message----- From: Caitlyn and Maggie
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 7:55 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: trying to install fusion
Wow, this is interesting. So, after you c/p the installation file
into the folder of choice, onceyou open the vm, or rather, run the
vm, you should be able to run the installation file and install your
screen reader?
That sounds much neater then fiddling around with narrater and going
onto the web or fooling around with usb drives..
thanks!
Caitlyn
On Feb 17, 2014, at 6:27 AM, Joseph Norton <joseph.nor...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hi:
Actually, if you have the installation files (like j14.xxx.exe) on
the Mac, you can copy and paste to the vm.
Just select the file in Mac OS, press command-c to copy. Then, go
into the VM, make sure you are in the desktop or another folder
(like Downloads) and press command-v. It will copy the file onto
the Desktop or into the folder you have open. This has worked for
me in Fusion 5, so I'm assuming it should work in 65 as well.
Hope this helps.
On Feb 17, 2014, at 12:41 AM, Shannon Gerdts <bambam...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
I actually never did try that. However, after a while and still
having it say fusion busy anytime we went to that window we
decided to do a forced quit on the application and reopen it.
When we did this it suddenly brought up the screen where we could
start installing windows allowing us to complete this task.
However, now I have a follow up question which I'm not sure how to
do just yet. Now that I have windows installed in fusion and I
have narrator up and running I'm trying to figure out how exactly
I can copy say my jaws installation from my dropbox on the mac OS
to fusion so that I can install it on windows there. Any idea how
I go about doing this so that I can get windows fully up and
running with jaws and therefore allow my wife to fully take
advantage of having windows on her mac?
Take care,
Shannon Gerdts
-----Original Message----- From: Terje Strømberg
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:08 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Cc: Terje Strømberg
Subject: Re: trying to install fusion
Have you tried to turn off Voice Over and turn it on again?
Take care
16. feb. 2014 kl. 01:01 skrev Shannon Gerdts <bambam...@gmail.com>:
Hello everyone,
So I'm currently in the process of trying to install fusion on my
wife's laptop. However, after we told it to continue after
putting in our license key it just sits there saying fusion busy.
Anyone know why this would be or how we can find out what's going
on so that we can finish getting it installed and get to
installing windows?
Take care,
Shannon Gerdts
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