One bit of caution is to not starve RAM on the Mac side. Mavericks doing nothing seems to take up about 1GB RAM. So if you are on a 4GB RAM machine and give 2GB to your virtual machine, and VMWare taks abouther 3-400MB of overhead, that leaves just 1.5GB RAM or so for the mac side. Open Safari and a bunch of tabs and you can start triggering virtual memory swaps. That said, Windows is also very disk intensive, which is why folks with SSDs are so happy with performance. Not sure why MS designed it that way but Windows just beats on the hard drive. So if you're on a laptop with a power sipping but slower 2.5" spinning drive, Windows just isn't going to be as responsive.

CB

On 2/18/14 1:36 AM, Joseph Norton wrote:
Hi:

To increase the memory, first, shut down the VM.  Then, once it's shut down, 
you can press command-e to get into settings or that VM.  You should see 
options for processors and memory in there.  All you do is adjust the memory 
size and close that screen.


Hope this helps.



On Feb 17, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Shannon Gerdts <bambam...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
   Ok so continuing along this thread.  We've now got fusion installed, jaws 
installed and now noticing a bit of a problem.  This problem is when using 
various programs, currently we're using mushclient, it's seemingly running a 
bit slow giving about a half a second to one second lag on every command 
inputted.
   I'm thinking this slow down is due to the fact I couldn't get the customize 
settings button to work when installing windows onto fusion so that I could 
adjust the amount of memory used from 2gb to something like 4gb instead.  Does 
anyone know if there is a way to modify this once windows is installed or is 
the only way to fix this to completely redo the windows installation on fusion 
and try and get that customize button to activate?
   I'll explain what I mean by not getting the customize key to work.  When I 
got beyond the screen where I chose the windows version to install, the user 
name, windows product key, etc. it gave me the confirmation screen and showing 
me how much gb of hard disc space it would allocate, the amount of memory it 
would allocate, etc.  It had it set to 60gb of hard disc space by default and 
2gb of memory set by default so I wanted to try and hit on the customize 
settings button after I hit my right arrow keys beyond those displays of the 
default settings while using the quicknav keystrokes.  I then tried hitting the 
up and down arrow keys together while using quicknav, turned off quicknav keys 
and hit VO spacebar, hit enter, hit space, etc. and every single time it would 
seemingly always hit the finish default button where it would want me to save 
the virtual machine file and start installing windows.
   Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated as I feel we're so 
close to having my wife up and running with everything on her computer except 
for these minor adjustments to make her windows experience much more enjoyable 
and doable in some cases.  If we can get this sorted out the only thing we have 
left to figure out is how to use the jaws cursor, pc cursor, and left/right 
click commands on windows inside fusion without a number pad and for whatever 
reason the standard laptop keys don't work for this.

Take care,
Shannon Gerdts

-----Original Message----- From: Caitlyn and Maggie
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 7:55 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: trying to install fusion

Wow, this is interesting.  So, after you c/p the installation file into the 
folder of choice, onceyou open the vm, or rather, run the vm, you should be 
able to run the installation file and install your screen reader?
That sounds much neater then fiddling around with narrater and going onto the 
web or fooling around with usb drives..
thanks!
Caitlyn

On Feb 17, 2014, at 6:27 AM, Joseph Norton <joseph.nor...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi:

Actually, if you have the installation files (like j14.xxx.exe) on the Mac, you 
can copy and paste to the vm.

Just select the file in Mac OS, press command-c to copy.  Then, go into the VM, 
make sure you are in the desktop or another folder (like Downloads) and press 
command-v.  It will copy the file onto the Desktop or into the folder you have 
open.  This has worked for me in Fusion 5, so I'm assuming it should work in 65 
as well.

Hope this helps.


On Feb 17, 2014, at 12:41 AM, Shannon Gerdts <bambam...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,
I actually never did try that.  However, after a while and still having it say 
fusion busy anytime we went to that window we decided to do a forced quit on 
the application and reopen it.  When we did this it suddenly brought up the 
screen where we could start installing windows allowing us to complete this 
task.
However, now I have a follow up question which I'm not sure how to do just yet. 
 Now that I have windows installed in fusion and I have narrator up and running 
I'm trying to figure out how exactly I can copy say my jaws installation from 
my dropbox on the mac OS to fusion so that I can install it on windows there.  
Any idea how I go about doing this so that I can get windows fully up and 
running with jaws and therefore allow my wife to fully take advantage of having 
windows on her mac?

Take care,
Shannon Gerdts

-----Original Message----- From: Terje Strømberg
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2014 9:08 AM
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Cc: Terje Strømberg
Subject: Re: trying to install fusion

Have you tried to turn off Voice Over and turn it on again?

Take care

16. feb. 2014 kl. 01:01 skrev Shannon Gerdts <bambam...@gmail.com>:

Hello everyone,
So I'm currently in the process of trying to install fusion on my wife's 
laptop.  However, after we told it to continue after putting in our license key 
it just sits there saying fusion busy.  Anyone know why this would be or how we 
can find out what's going on so that we can finish getting it installed and get 
to installing windows?

Take care,
Shannon Gerdts
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