Just my thoughts everyone. Why not get a Jaws Dongle rather than using your ILM counts? Just that if you lose your virtual machine, then you will not lose your activation. I at present run jaws in 40 minute mode but am planning to get another SMA with Dongle in the near future.
Kawal. On 5 Jun 2012, at 14:56, Chris Blouch wrote: > Good summary. A couple tidbits to go along. > > Fusion defaults to 60GB for Win7 disk allocation and 1GB RAM. These might be > minimums but probably work well for most situations. It also defaults to the > 2GB allocations as separate files. Not sure the advantage other than for > backing up maybe. If you do something you might only have a few 2GB files > that have been changed. I know a couple people who share their user folders > (Documents, Music, Photos) from the Mac side to Fusion so there is no user > generated content in the virtual machine. So if the VM blows up nothing is > lost and they only need to backup the Mac side. Another trick is to use the > Snapshots feature. If all your documents are outside the virtual machine you > can create a snapshot at a known good point. If anything goes wonky you can > just restore to the snapshot state. I've even heard of people using the > snapshot to run Jaws in 40-minute mode and then jump back again when time was > up. At least for developers who just run Jaws for testing that might be a > good solution. > > On 6/5/12 5:17 AM, Sean Murphy wrote: >> Hello to all. >> >> I wish to clear up some possible misunderstandings that people have with the >> virtualisation route. >> >> Depending on available resources on your Mac will determine how to configure >> the VMWare. If you have a Mac with 8gb of physical memory. VMWare states >> only to use a maximum of 50% of the physical memory for the guess OS. This >> is more then enough memory for a 64 bit OS which would be 4gb for the guess. >> If you are planning to use a 32 bit OS, then I wouldn't allocate more then 3 >> gb of physical memory for a 8 gb PC. If you have 4gb physical RAM, then I >> would use the rule of thumb of no more then 50% and allocate accordingly. >> >> In relation to the virtual hard drive that you set up for the guess OS. This >> is really up to you how much you allocate. The rule of thumb I use is >> around 40 to 50 gb. I generally find this is more then enough. I also >> configure the VMWare to share the documents, desktop, music, etc between >> Windows and the Mac. Again, I am reducing the amount of disk spaced used by >> the Guess windows OS by doing this. So the virtual disk is allocated for >> programs and those files needed by the app. The other tip is that I set up >> my Mac user directory as a VMWare shared drive under windows. So it is >> really easy to copy between both environments. Also you can launch your >> window app from within the Mac environment. For example, I can open the >> word document within windows by opening it from the Mac. This is the true >> power and flexibility of having windows in a virtual environment. >> >> If you are having performance issues. It is a good starting point to find >> out how much memory is being shared between the Mac and guess OS. How many >> cores are being used. I find a max of 50% of the cores available is a good >> guideline. EG: a duel core I would only allocate one. On my Mac Book Pro, I >> have 4 cores, so I allocate 2. When allocating the virtual disks, I have >> read somewhere that the 2gb files allocation reduces performance. When you >> do allocate virtual disks, they will grow as you use it to the maximum >> allocated. >> >> In relation to authorisation of Jaws. This is a known problem with virtual >> environments. It is one of those bugs that sit with the company who FS uses >> to set up the authentication and VMWare. It isn't a FS issues per say, >> rather it is their vendors problem who they use for the authentication. The >> pro's and cons of having FS authentication is not a discussion for this list. >> >> I haven't had any problems with the authentication of Jaws. I even back up >> the whole virtual directory on a periodic bases. So if the virtual guess >> breaks, I can replace it with a known working version. >> >> The other issues you have to be aware of is keyboard conflicts with Windows >> and the Mac. Voice Over is very aggressive and doesn't like anyone else >> using the Capslock key, control option together and any arrow key with the >> function key. . The Mac does not have any Insert key. So under windows, you >> have to remap a Mac keyboard key to an insert. This is done by an program >> called sharp keys. Another thing I am currently playing with is remapping >> the Mac keys. I am planning to remap the right option key to a right >> control key. Under windows, I am going to remap the right control key to a >> insert or caps lock. This will give me more flexibility with using Jaws >> commands. This is a real pain and Apple needs to address the keyboard >> conflict issue. Since if you use VMWare under windows. Once the control is >> passed to the guess OS. Windows doesn't interfere with the keys at all. >> >> One final point, if you turn off Voice Over, the cap lock issue doesn't >> occur. >> >> >> Sean >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. 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