Hello Chris,
Our disc drive is a solid state since it's the new retina versions of
macbooks which only come in the ssd option. They only saved one of the
older versions of macbook pros in the 13 inch version which has the old
style hd's. For whatever reason though even switching it to use 4gb or
4096mb of memory for windows it was still running kind of slow and I'm not
sure why.
Take care,
Shannon Gerdts
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Blouch
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 4:35 PM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: trying to install fusion
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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