You will end up with multiple copies of your screen reader running. One in your host copy of windows and one in each VM that is running windows. It is fine to have them all running at the same time. When you switch to a VM that copy of the screen reader is the "working" copy and when you switch back to your host OS, that copy will be running. A VM needs to be looked at as if it were a separate piece of hardware. It of course isn't quite that simple, but for the perposes of running specific applications (even the screen reader) it is. I have a set up where I am running Window Eyes as my screen reader. I have it running on my host OS and in a VM. I al so run a Linix OS in another VM using another screen reader. What fun! Hope this helps. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Steve Matzura Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:31 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] VM Under Windows OK, I have a virtual environment, but haven't done anything with installing accessibility tools yet. Before I make a blunder of this, I thought I'd ask the following: 1. I cheated a little--I had some help via TeamViewer to install VirtualBox for the first time and then some local help to get it working. I've back-tracked over what we did and am almost confident I could do it myself again from zip, all but the Windows installation. 2. If I boot Windows normally (the real one, not the virtual one) and then start speech--JAWS, let's say, for argument's sake, does it go away when the virtual environment is started, or does the copy of JAWS that was first run become the running accessibility in the virtual environment? 3. If the answer to #2 is no--initial speechware does not work in virtual space--is it OK to have JAWS running twice--once in the real hardware booted environment and again in the VM? What I'm trying to find out is this: . How many enstantiations of JAWS are required? . If only one, then when--at initial hardware boot or in the VM? Thanks in advance for any and all information. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins