Re: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh

Thanks for the data point Chris. I am installing XP into a VMWare Fusion VM. Hopefully that will work better than Parallels. 

--Susan


On Feb 21, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Chris Hallsworth wrote:
I have the same problem with VMware Workstation, but only if my Windows Guest is either Vista or 7. It's annoying and the only stable VM I can run 
are ones with XP as its guest Operating System.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "James Homuth" <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 11:50 PM
Subject: RE: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh
So it's definitely something with the video intercept software. Possibly a compatibility issue? I'm just guessing at this point, since I don't own a mac nevermind trying to put JAWS on it. But judging by what you're saying, it looks like it's having trouble hooking into the video subsystem your VM uses. It's a common problem when trying to run video intensive applications for Windows inside of a Windows VM. Unfortunately, I have absolutely no idea how you'd go about working around it. You might try mailing lists for either 
that particular VM software or mac OS?

James,
List Admin

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
Of Susan Baur
Sent: February 20, 2009 6:42 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh
Thank you for the quick response. I downloaded JAWS/MAGic Video Intercept from the JAWS download page and installed it, but unfortunately it crashed my VM in what appears to be the same way after it restarted the system. 

--Susan


On Feb 20, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Blackwell, Clifford wrote:


Did you install the video intercept manager before installing Jaws?
It
sounds as if that might be the problem.  I don't run the kind of set
up you're talking about, but the syptoms sound like a video intercept
problem.

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Susan Baur
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 5:11 PM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for Macintosh

Hi,

I am trying to get JAWS 10 installed on Windows XP running under
Parallels 3 for Macintosh. The installer appears to run successfully
then asks to restart the Virtual Machine. The VM crashes on restart
after the Windows splash screen displays for a few moments. It will
start up successfully in safe mode but running only in safe mode is
not an option. Has anyone had success getting JAWS 10 to work in a
Parallels VM? Does anyone have pointers to resources the might help?
My searches on google and the freedom scientific site have not been
helpful, though I did find one blog entry from 2007 that said they had 
gotten it to work, but no specific versions or steps were mentioned.

Thank you for any information you can provide, --Susan




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