[GUI-Talk] Question about using VMWare

[Maurice Mines]

  Good morning, yes JAWS will work in a virtual machine. I’ve done it 
on multiple occasions. You do have to be careful however when 
installing. I would strongly advise that you just make certain that you 
have an extra installation token in your three allotted installs in case 
something does go wrong. And I would further recommend that you backup 
the system but after you build it. This will come in handy should 
anything go wrong that isn’t related to jaws directly. This is also 
very dependent on what version of VMware you are running. If you’re 
running version 10, or version 11 what are the two versions that I’ve 
used JAWS with without a problem you shouldn’t experience any major 
issues. This testing was done with John’s version 18 and 19. There is 
limited success with version 17. But as far as I know it should be fine 
any virtual machine running Windows. I am of course talking about VMware 
fusion which runs on a Mac. Does this say he made it 2015 MacBook Pro 
with 16 gig of RAM but the 2.2 GHz processor and using Windows 10 Pro. 
Good luck and let us know how it goes?

Sincerely Maurice Mines.
Amateur call, kd0iko.
VP national Federation of the blind of California Bakersfield chapter.

On 16 Jan 2019, at 8:10, Sierra Whittington via GUI-Talk wrote:

> Ugh, readers. Lol!
>
> I figured out last night that the virtual machines on campus don't 
> support audio output anyway so this should be fun!
> Thanks for your response.
>
>> On Jan 16, 2019, at 8:02 AM, Curtis Chong via GUI-Talk 
>> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Sierra:
>>
>> I am afraid that JAWS will not work in the virtual machine 
>> environment.
>> There are some scenarios (i.e., Citrix) where you have one version of 
>> JAWS
>> installed on your computer and another "remote" copy installed on a 
>> Citrix
>> server. This "remote access" feature comes at a price of $200, but I 
>> do not
>> believe this will solve your specific issue.
>>
>> Speaking technically, the virtual machine window is a huge set of 
>> graphics
>> which JAWS has absolutely no good way to parse-even with its 
>> Convenient OCR
>> feature. My advice (I bet some of you could see this coming<smile>) 
>> is to
>> secure the services of a sighted reader or to find a way to avoid the
>> virtual machine environment altogether.
>>
>> Cordially,
>>
>> Curtis Chong
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: GUI-Talk <gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Sierra 
>> Whittington
>> via GUI-Talk
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2019 7:13 PM
>> To: GUI-Talk at nfbnet.org
>> Cc: Sierra Whittington <sierrazee95 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [GUI-Talk] Question about using VMWare
>>
>> Hello all!
>>
>> I know not everyone here is IT, but I figured some people might be 
>> and this
>> is the only place I can think of to ask.
>>
>> Okay, so my A+ class is running virtual machines now, and we use 
>> VMWare. All
>> I've had access to is the web version, as they don't have JAWS 
>> installed on
>> any of the classroom computers yet.
>>
>> When I log in, I can't access anything at all! JAWS just reads the 
>> title of
>> the page, and even when I perform OCR on the screen, it won't allow 
>> me to
>> navigate to anything. I can't even access my virtual machine.
>>
>> Does anyone have a work around for this, or possibly know if the 
>> actual
>> VMWare software is more accessible than the web version?
>>
>> I apologize if I sound all over the place, I'm not super familiar 
>> with
>> virtual machines.
>>
>> Thanks for reading,
>> Sierra
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