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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