On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Ezzie Buenito wrote:
After viewing many of your discussions, I've decided to try running Windows
on my Macbook Pro with Fusion. The questions I have are as follows:
1. When I select VMWARE Fusion on the finder, can I install JAWS at that
point?
No. You need to configure the VM and install Windows in it before you can
install JAWS. VMWare Fusion is not Windows, it is only a program for
running other operating systems under your main one. You will need a
legitimate Windows installation CD.
2. Which key will be the Windows key?
On a mac keyboard, the command key will be the Windows key, and the Option
key will be the Alt key. Yes, that means they're backwards in comparison
to a Windows keyboard.
3. How do I switch back to the Mac operating system?
This is one of the tricky things about using Fusion. Visually, Windows
is just another window on your computer. When the mouse is in that
window, it's interacting with Windows, and when it's not, it's interacting
with Mac OS.
Now for us, it's a little more complicated. If you can see the mouse
pointer, I believe you can click within or outside of the Windows window
in order to change where the keyboard is focused. If you can't, moving to
the Fusion window and pressing (I think) command-g is supposed to switch
to Windows and control-command to switch it back. However, it's very
difficult to make this work reliably. A thread a week or two back on this
list discussed a number of ways to try and help make this more reliable,
such as running VMWare in full-screen mode. But none of these remedies
seemed to work for everyone.
4. When I start up the computer, which operating system will start up by
default?
Mac OS has to start, as VMWare and Windows will be running as a program on
your mac, not as a stand-alone operating system. If you want to run
Windows as a stand-alone operating system which you run *instead* of Mac
OS, you need to use Boot Camp.
Geoff.
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