thank you, that keyboard setting does seem to help. I have noticed my VM running at quite a lag, half a second to a second, which really messes up gameplay. It doesn't always happen, but it is enough that audio games are nearly unusable. I gave Windows one core and 3gb of ram, so it should be quite happy. How odd! If anyone has seen this, I'd greatly appreciate a fix. To be honest, the whole point of this setup on my personal machine is gaming, so if I can't use it for that, then I'm stuck with Bootcamp again. On Nov 26, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Caitlyn furness <caitlyn.furn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi alex, > I’m going to take a crack at some of your questions. > > For your problem with vo taking over, and also for some of the key strokes > not being recognized, you can either turn off vo while in the virtual machine > or go into the vm prefs and then find the tab called keyboard, I think. In > there, there is a check box which tells the vm to ignore all mac osx > commands. For myself, once I checked that little box, the guest operating > system acted better! > > The volume issue is probably windows volume and you can either turn up your > mac or go into control panel and turn up the volume in the other OS. > > hth, > Caitlyn > > On Nov 25, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I finally got VMWare Fusion running! I guess I complained enough, because >> they called me back within an hour, had me set up a remote access program, >> and did everything for me. <grin> I'm still not overly impressed with their >> support, but at least they fixed this. >> >> Now, though, I have some questions. This is on a Macbook Air with 4gb of ram >> (total, not for the vm only). I will set up Windows on my Mini soon, but >> want to iron everything out on the Macbook first since my Mini is my primary >> machine. >> >> 1. According to Fusion's preferences, ctrl-cmd should toggle keyboard/mouse >> control between Windows and Mac, but that does not always seem to be the >> case. Voiceover usually grabs keystrokes, almost randomly at times, and the >> caps lock modifier does not work at all. In addition, keyboard commander >> keystrokes are grabbed, so windows-b executes my battery script instead of >> jumping to the Task Bar. This, of course, means I cannot reliably control >> Windows, and cannot access the NVDA menus. >> >> 2. The default behavior for closing Fusion is to suspend open VMs. Is that >> okay, or is it recommended that I shut them down instead? >> >> 3. Windows seems quiet relative to OS10. Is there a way to turn it up? It >> may well be Windows' volume, I haven't managed to check yet (see #1). >> >> Thank you in advance, and I am sure I will have more questions as time goes >> on. As I said, I really want to nail down any possible problems before >> trying this out on my main machine. However, I am demoing Windows to a >> client tomorrow, using the Macbook, so it would be nice to have better >> control over Windows before then. (Yeah, I put this one off, but in my >> defense I never expected so much trouble with VMWare). >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> mehg...@gmail.com >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
