A related question. If I have a quad core Mini can I allocate it to four processors? If I do does Windows share the processers with Lion on a need to use basis? I suspect this must be true because otherwise you could not run VM Fusion with a single core chip.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Erkens Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 10:06 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Running a Mac with Windows on Eric, Bill, list, The way to allocate ram to your virtual machine is an easy one this time. Here's how to allocate ram to your virtual windows machine inside vmware fusion. 1. Fire up fusion. If your virtual windows machine starts up, then shut it down, but don't command w close its window. The virtual machine should be visible, after having it shut down, but not running. 2. Now, hit command plus e, to get into the settings for only this virtual machine. 3. From here, it's easy. Just go to processors and ram, and in there, make sure you type 2048 in the ram field for your virtual machine. Having 4 gigs in your mac will give 2 gigabytes to the virtual machine, and the rest to the mac. That's all. 4. Don't forget to close and save the new setting with command w. Hth, Paul. On Sep 4, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Eric Caron wrote: > Hi Paul and others, > > Paul, your directions worked perfectly! I'm now making progress. Windows 7 is running and JAWS is talking to me. > > The next important thing is getting a insert key as sadly even in laptop mode the caps lock seems to stay a caps lock. I have sharp keys downloaded but don't seem to be able to get it to work. > Is there a way to re map the keys in VM fusion? > > And another tip where do I make sure the ram allocation is split to 2 GB each for my 4 gb machine? > > Thanks so much for this help folks! I'd be lost without this assistance! > > eric Caron > On Sep 4, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Paul Erkens wrote: > >> Hi Eric, >> Don't worry about the version of fusion. You can update any time by going into the menu bar, vo m, then one vo right arrow to the fusion menu, then vo down to check for updates. That should give you the latest and lion compatible version. I'm running it just fine. >> >> Regarding the vmware tools, it will say not installed as long as the tools are really not installed. It will say update vmware tools as soon as the tools have ben successfully installed, but once installed there's nothing to update. >> >> Your next question was how to get into the windows environment. If you are inside fusion, you can check if windows is currently running by going into the menu bar, vo m, then right to virtual machines, then down to windows is off, windows is running, windows is suspended. That's a status item and it is therefore always dimmed. Below it, in the same menu, you will find options to change the status. I.e., if windows is now suspended, you will find resume. If windows is running, you will find restart, shutdown suspend. If windows is off, you will find startup. Make sure windows is running, to begin with. >> >> Now, how to get into windows. First off, windows can be full screen, in which case you only see button button in the entire fusion window, or windows can be in a small, tiny window inside fusion. If windows is minimized this way, you will hear connect apple facetime hd camera, connect hard disk, network, sharing etc. If you encounter these controls in the fusion window, you know that windows is now in a very small portion of the screen, inside the fusion window with all its controls. >> >> To toggle these 2 states, minimized or full screen, use command control enter, and explore the window with voiceover so you familiarize yourself with the 2 states. >> >> Now make sure windows is minimized. With voiceover, find something that says progress bar. This item is not really a progress bar, but it is the tiny window that windows 7 runs in. Now that you set focus to this window, turn voiceover off, command f5, and enlarge windows from here. Control command enter. From now on, you're in the windows environment. >> >> Now, be ware that your command key by default is not your alt key, and that option is not windows logo. Instead, these are swapped. You can restore that behaviour if you want so ask if you want that. To start narrator as a test, hit win plus r to open the windows run dialog, type narrator and press enter. Narrator is a bad thing to use in windows 7, so install nvda jaws window eyes whatever, as soon as you can. Remember: win r is command plus r until you change it. >> >> Hth, and let us know your further questions. From within windows, shut it down using windows itself. You will return back into fusion, where you can turn on voiceover some 5 seconds after windows 7 shuts down, and then you can go ahead as usual. >> Paul. >> On Sep 4, 2011, at 8:28 PM, Eric Caron wrote: >> >>> Hi Mike and others, >>> >>> I just took the plunge and purchased VM Fusion. I would love some help from some VM Fusion users. My first big concern is that I purchased VM Fusion 3.1 and as I read the documentation it says nothing about Lyon. Are people using VM Fusion 3.1 with Lyon and Windows 7? >>> >>> I got to a point in the installation where it says VM Tools were not installed and I should go to the VM machine menu and then VM tools. first when I went there it said cancel VM tools so I assumed it was installing and left it alone. Nothing changed but when I went back to the menu it now said update VM tools. I pressed that and it offered me the chance to install a install exe file. I went ahead and pressed it. >>> I really don't know what to do next. For all I know everything could be working correctly and I just don't know how to enter the windows environment. I did the instal from Bootcamp hoping it would come up talking. I have entered my serial number for VM fusion but have not been asked yet for my windows key. >>> >>> I'd love some tips. I'm in a screen that has vm file Edit VM machine and such in the apple menu. on the screen there are buttons that say things like connect hard drive. and connect sound card. >>> >>> Tips on my next step would be greatly appreciated! >>> >>> On Sep 4, 2011, at 10:10 AM, Mike Arrigo wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, you would need a windows screen reader, just like you would running windows on a pc. It's no more or less crash prone than a pc, it would allow you to run microsoft products if you needed to. >>>> On Sep 4, 2011, at 6:01 AM, Kirsten Edmondson wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, I'm still pondering getting a Mac. I understand I could run windows on the machine using vm fusion? So this would mean I could run ms products, but would I still need a screen-reader like Jaws? Or would vo work with it? >>>>> Personally I find Windows very unstable, is it's quality through programs like vm fusion or bootcamp good? 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