Success! JAWS 10 is installed and working on a Macintosh virtual environment using VMWare Fusion 2.0.2 and a Windows XP, Service Pack 3 guest OS.
--Susan On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Susan Baur wrote:
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 runare ones with XP as its guest Operating System. -- Chris Hallsworth e-mail: christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: ch9675@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype: chrishallsworth7266 ----- 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 MacintoshSo 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 eitherthat particular VM software or mac OS? James, List Admin -----Original Message-----From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On BehalfOf Susan Baur Sent: February 20, 2009 6:42 PM To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: JAWS 10 and Parallels 3 for MacintoshThank 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 setup you're talking about, but the syptoms sound like a video interceptproblem. -----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 beenhelpful, though I did find one blog entry from 2007 that said they hadgotten it to work, but no specific versions or steps were mentioned. Thank you for any information you can provide, --Susan
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