[Athen] JAWS and VM Ware

Melanie Thornton mpthornton at ualr.edu
Thu Aug 27 11:48:55 PDT 2009


Is there enough RAM allocated?



Kelmer, Susan M. wrote:

>

> I've been watching this thread with interest. We are currently trying

> to run a version of Vista with Jaws 10 inside VM on one of our XP

> machines, and Vista is crashing as soon as I try to open Jaws. So,

> anyone have any suggestions? My tech has been doing her research, but

> so far, no solution.

>

>

>

> /Susan Kelmer/

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> /Adaptive Technology Specialist//

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> /Lab Coordinator, Campus Labs and Classrooms/

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> /St. Louis Community College - Meramec/

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> *From:* athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]

> *On Behalf Of *Melanie Thornton

> *Sent:* Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:08 PM

> *To:* Access Technology Higher Education Network

> *Subject:* Re: [Athen] JAWS and VM Ware

>

>

>

> Hi, Hadi. Sorry for the delay. Our Access Technician installed mine

> and did it real quickly but he is pretty tech savvy and has done it on

> several machines here in our office.

>

> If you want to email him with questions, I'm sure he'd be glad to

> respond. His name is Justin Hicks: jxhicks at ualr.edu

> <mailto:jxhicks at ualr.edu>

>

>

> Melanie

>

> Hadi Rangin wrote:

>

> I have been using VMWare to run a RedHat 7 on top of Debien and I use

> screen program that I wrote over a decade ago to access them with a

> refreshable Braille display. So I am not using Jaws or any voice

> engine to access them.

> VMWare is giving me recently hard time to maintain especially when I

> upgrade any substantial packages. It wants me to recompile it and it

> is very picky about having the matching GCC compiler and kernel.

>

> I am considering to move away from VMWare and use Virtual box instead.

> Can you please describe your experience installing and running Virtual

> box?

> How complicated is installing an XP virtual machine in Virtual box?

>

> Thanks,

> Hadi

>

>

> ---- Original Message ----- From: "Melanie Thornton"

> <mpthornton at ualr.edu> <mailto:mpthornton at ualr.edu>

> To: "Access Technology Higher Education Network" <athen at athenpro.org>

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> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2009 2:40 PM

> Subject: Re: [Athen] JAWS and VM Ware

>

>

>

> I'm using it in Virtual Box without any problems thus far.

>

> Melanie

>

> Crabb, Nolan wrote:

>

> Is anyone currently successfully using JAWS with VMware? If so, I'd be

> most grateful if you and I could e-mail off list. I've been asked by

> someone who is contemplating using JAWS and VMware--apparently the

> latest versions of both.

>

> Regards,

>

> Nolan

>

>

>

>

> Nolan Crabb

> Director of Assistive Technology

> The Ohio State University

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Melanie Thornton
Director, Project PACE
Associate Director, Disability Resource Center
2801 S. University Ave., DSC #103
Little Rock, Arkansas 72204
501.650.2239 (cell)
501.569.8240 (fax)
501.569.3217 (tty)

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http://ualr.edu/pace
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