Hi Rachel,
This support list is really a big part of why I love using my Mac. I
have become a much more productive user because of the help of many people
here. I've even made some great off list connections.
Your tips here are a good addition to what people have offered. I've
saved many of these messages in a special VM mail box. I think I will follow
your example and eventually start over with a new installation. I'm going to
get a 64 bit version of Windows 7 and see if I notice a difference in
performance.
Your comment about short cuts is helpful. I've saved a a description
from Paul on how to use VM Fusion to change keys but I must admit it seemed
like a real challenge.
VM Fusion seems like it should be so easy but it is pretty complicated. I
suspect these threads will be helpful to many listers.
By the way Parallels is known for not being accessible to blind users. I'm
amazed you had success at all.
Welcome to the list!
Eric Caron
On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Rachel magario wrote:
> Hi Eric, I am new in the list and I see you got lots of tips already. But for
> me, I just had to delete all my virtual machines, reinstall from scratch and
> configured my setting only after I had the full license of jaws running. And
> insure my fusion had the vmware tools installed and running.
> I also have full sharing setting between both systems. Every thing works well
> now. But I also made a shortcut to start jaws in case something goes wrong.
> My only big trouble is the keyboard, because a lot of my jaws short cuts
> conflicts with some of my mac ones. I hardly use jaws any more though.
> It was a freedom support person who helped me decided to finally switch to a
> MAC, but unfortunately every time I have called after, they always tell me
> jaws does not work in the virtual machine, since first I had parallels and I
> had lots of issues until I switch to fusion. It does work well for the most
> part.
> Hope this can be of help
>
> Cheers,
> Rachel
> On Sep 7, 2011, at 7:06 PM, David McLean wrote:
>
>> I've had FS give me more activations to run VMWare. I didn't tell them I
>> was running it on a Mac however, none of their business anyway.
>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:49 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote:
>>
>>> Why didn't he approve? Why would FS even care.
>>>
>>> Ricardo Walker
>>> rwalker...@gmail.com
>>> Twitter & Skype: rwalker296
>>> www.mobileaccess.org
>>>
>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:26 PM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
>>>
>>>> I rang up Freedom Scientific last year as I wanted a reset of my
>>>> activation. I told them that I was running Jaws on my Mac under Fusion
>>>> and as soon as the representative heard that he said he would not support
>>>> me by giving me a new activation unless I wanted it for a native windows
>>>> PC. This year I went to Site Village (an exhibition for all access
>>>> Technology) and Eric Damerie was there and I told him that I was running
>>>> Jaws on a Mac and he simply did not approve.
>>>>
>>>> Kawal.
>>>> ___
>>>> Kawal Gucukoglu
>>>> (E-mail/MSN):
>>>> kawa...@me.com
>>>>
>>>> (Skype ID):
>>>>
>>>> kawalgucukoglu
>>>>
>>>> (Mobile/text):
>>>>
>>>> +447905618396
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 7 Sep 2011, at 21:20, Eric Caron wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Kawal,
>>>>>
>>>>> Freedom Scientific would not be happy to hear this but at least three
>>>>> of the tech reps I talked to were very supportive of my Mac use. Two
>>>>> years ago I was uncertain about buying a mac and mentioned that when
>>>>> working on a unrelated JAWS problem. The Rep told me to get the Mac and
>>>>> I would love it. He was correct! The other day I had another issue and
>>>>> before I knew it the rep was asking me questions as she said she loved
>>>>> her iPhone and was considering getting a Mac. Most recently I called for
>>>>> help with my work PC and Jaws. I mentioned my problem with Jaws not
>>>>> starting in my VM and told him I didn't expect him to answer that
>>>>> question as it was not supported. In fact, he gave me a good idea to try
>>>>> and seemed familiar with the Mac. The Mac seems to, in my experience, be
>>>>> becoming popular with at least some of these reps. It really was one of
>>>>> these reps that was the final straw resulting in my purchase of my Mac.
>>>>> I've never looked back!
>>>>>
>>>>> In all fairness I was dealing with real JAWS issues when I called, but in
>>>>> all these cases the reps were supportive and either all ready
>>>>> knowledgeable about the Mac or curious about them.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Even though I don't have all the bugs worked out of my VM yet I am
>>>>> convinced that the over all experience with Windows on my Mac will be
>>>>> better then my experience on a native PC.
>>>>>
>>>>> Eric Caron
>>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Kawal Gucukoglu wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Bood job you did not tell the Freedom Scientific representative that you
>>>>>> were planning to install Jaws on a Mac as they do not support this.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kawal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7 Sep 2011, at 12:57 PM, Paul Erkens <paul.erk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>>>>> Last week, a friend of mine bumped into someone who had the same
>>>>>>> problem as you seem to experience, in that settings you make in jaws,
>>>>>>> don't hold from shutdown to next run of jaws. And it is now resolved.
>>>>>>> We, that is my friend and his friend, and I, have all been looking into
>>>>>>> the problem. We have checked the permissions on the mac hd volume. We
>>>>>>> have checked inside windows, to see if somewhere in documents and
>>>>>>> settings, where jaws stores its configuration data, a rights problem
>>>>>>> was sitting. Why, would jaws, on other systems, retain its settings,
>>>>>>> while on the vm it would not. We were starting to think that this was a
>>>>>>> fusion problem. Even one of the Belgian freedom scientific workers
>>>>>>> helped debugging the problem one entire afternoon, but no luck. Until
>>>>>>> my friend's friend, came up with the solution, found by accident.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What you need to do, and this as worked for 2 people already that I
>>>>>>> know of, is that you reset jaws to its factory default, thereby
>>>>>>> destroying all your user settings. But, when you reconfigure jaws
>>>>>>> afterwards, you may find that from then on, jaws will remember its
>>>>>>> settings. Albeit spelling, autostart, and whatever. Please try that and
>>>>>>> report back on it, because it seems that this is a nasty jaws bug, but
>>>>>>> so difficult to trace. To be clear, my friend's friend encountered this
>>>>>>> same problem on a native windows pc. He passed it on, and now it works
>>>>>>> for my friend as well.
>>>>>>> Hth,
>>>>>>> Paul.
>>>>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Eric Caron wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Kawal and Paul,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> thanks for this added info.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> My imported Boot Camp partition seemed to be working ok until I
>>>>>>>> deleted the real Boot Camp. now each time I start the virtual machine
>>>>>>>> I get a strange message that says something like can not connect file
>>>>>>>> User/ecaron/library/application support/VM Fusion/Vertual
>>>>>>>> machine/BootCamp/ Boot Camp.vvmwarevm//auto Detect as a CD rOM image
>>>>>>>> Can not find the file. Vertual Device IDE 1 will start disconnected.
>>>>>>>> I then press OK and things seem to work all right. this error message
>>>>>>>> made me concerned so I decided to create a new virtual machine with my
>>>>>>>> windows 7 disk and instal JAWS directly. That went ok until I decided
>>>>>>>> to set up JAWS, still in 40 minute mode. It seems to work except it
>>>>>>>> won't hold the check box setting to start at log in. This makes me
>>>>>>>> concerned that it won't work correctly. Plus I need it to come up
>>>>>>>> talking.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, I have two machines available at the moment. I only on ant one
>>>>>>>> but I can't get either one to work correctly.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I really appreciate the tips and information. Even just knowing
>>>>>>>> someone else has Lyon working with VM and JAWS is helpful. I'm close
>>>>>>>> to having this working! Perhaps there is just a setting I need to fix
>>>>>>>> in one of the machines.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Tips are greatly appreciated.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Eric Caron
>>>>>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:10 AM, Paul Erkens wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hi Eric,
>>>>>>>>> I'm aware that people sometimes have issues with jaws when importing
>>>>>>>>> their bootcamp partition into fusion but I can't tell you what is
>>>>>>>>> wrong. Can't you remove the authorization from bootcamp, and then
>>>>>>>>> reinstall it into fusion?
>>>>>>>>> Hth,
>>>>>>>>> Paul.
>>>>>>>>> On Sep 7, 2011, at 5:57 AM, Eric Caron wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Listers using VM Fusion,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> By the thime I get this working I'll be able to be a consultant for
>>>>>>>>>> future listers.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I created a new VM not with Boot Camp and after fighting a bit I got
>>>>>>>>>> Jaws 12 to instal. No matter what I do when I restart the virtual
>>>>>>>>>> machine Jaws will not come up talking. I noticed that once I check
>>>>>>>>>> the box for it to start at start up the check box is unchecked the
>>>>>>>>>> next time I look at it.
>>>>>>>>>> I don't want to wast a license on the machine if it will not hold
>>>>>>>>>> the JAWS settings. Anyone have this working and the settings and
>>>>>>>>>> authorization sticking? Any tips? This mac lover has been spending
>>>>>>>>>> way too much time trying to get this VM working!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Eric Caron
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