[jawsscripts] Re: Announcement: New JAWS Scripts Available for VMware Player 5
- From: "Andy B." <sonfire11@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 08:46:22 -0500
Workstation 9 has some problems with Windows 7 and later. From what my
looking around has come up with, you are prompted with a boot menu in the
VM, regardless of the OS installed in the VM itself. For this to work, the
host OS has to be Windows 7 or later. The problem is that as blind users, we
hav no way of knowing what the boot menu says. This is not specific to the
installed VM OS, but is provided by VMWare workstation depending on what OS
it detects in the VM. Therefore, the boot options change based on the VM's
OS. The other problem is that some memory management problems possibly
exist. I am not sure because I can never get past the boot options when the
vm restarts; the boot menu only appears on VM restart. When this happens,
JAWS at some point locks, and the CPU clock ramps to 100% and freezes until
you do a hard shutdown with the power button. JAWS problem? VMWare memory
problem? Who knows, but we would need to figure out what causes the boot
menu to appear and why windows crashes. These problems don't exist in linux
as the host, so it may have something to do with JAWS. I would need to test
with NVDA running to see if it is JAWS blocking something. I am only running
from a 30 day trial.
-----Original Message-----
From: jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:jawsscripts-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Marang
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 7:58 AM
To: vinux-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; b-v-m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [jawsscripts] Announcement: New JAWS Scripts Available for VMware
Player 5
I am pleased to announce the release of my JAWS Scripts for VMware Player 5!
VMware Player 5.0 is almost 100% accessible without scripts. The scripts
supplied simply provide additional information, add many hotkeys for menus,
add hotkeys for power actions like Workstation, and allow the menus to be
activated and deactivated simply with the Alt key.
There is a full list of hotkeys available for these scripts, the VMware
Player 5.0 application, and some helpful hints by pressing JAWSKey + F1.
These scripts are available as an installer which will place the files in
the proper folder. They can be downloaded at:
http:DonaldMarang.org/VMware.php
Sorry, I currently do not own a copy of VMware Workstation, and thus can not
develop or support similar scripts for Workstation 9. I like the features
of Workstation, but evidently, to install VMware Tools in Ubuntu 12.10
Quantal, Workstation 9 or Player 5 is required. I can not afford the
upgrade at the moment, so I am using Player 5. Mostly, I miss the Snapshot
feature of Workstation.
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*Don Marang*
Vinux Package Development Coordinator - vinuxproject.org
<http://www.vinuxproject.org/>
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