[JAWSLite] Re: Solution: jaws in virtual machine

Windows will run fine in a vm if you have a good enough computer.
Memory is one key, somewhere north of 2gb on the host helps a lot.  It
also helps if the host is dual processor or at least multi-core.

On 7/20/09, Christopher Chaltain <chaltain@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the information.
>
> I'm curious why you think running VMWare under Windows seems totally
> backwards to you. Given how much room Windows and JAWS like to take up, and
> how finicky Windows is about the HW it runs on, I always thought it made
> more sense to run Windows on the HW itself and run Linux in a virtual
> machine. A few jobs ago, this is how we had our laptops configured. We tried
> it the other way around, but we found Windows was just too slow running in a
> virtual machine.
>
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> Christopher
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> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of John G. Heim
> Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 9:25 AM
> To: jawslite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [JAWSLite] Solution: jaws in virtual machine
>
> FYI:
>
> I asked a few weeks ago if anyone had gotten jaws to work in a linux vmware
> virtual machine.  Well, I got it to work using vmware workstation for linux
> and jaws 10. The combination of vmware server2  (the free product) and jaws
> 9 did not work. Each time I started jaws, it would try to install the video
> intercept manager and fail. This meant the jaws cursor wouldn't work which
> makes jaws practically unusable. However, upgrading to vmware workstation
> and jaws 10 worked.
>
> I don't know a thing about vmware for Windows. Running a virtual machine in
> Windows seems totally backward to me so I never gave that a try.
>
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