VmWare problem

[Nick Wood]

Hi Glenn,

Are you sure that Ubuntu has the keyboard focus?  If not, your 
keystrokes will not go through to the guest operating system.

I use VMWare on linux, and by default VMWare does not grab keyboard 
focus unless you either put the VM into full screen or press Ctrl+G (or 
click with the mouse somewhere inside the guest operating system's window)

So when you hear the bongos, try Ctrl+G, and then try the Orca key 
combination which is Alt+Super+S.   Orca should start speaking.

Regards,

Nick



On 20/03/18 00:20, Glenn At Home wrote:
> Hi,
> Today I installed VmWare on a Windows 7 machine with 8GB of RAM.
> I created a machine that boots Ubuntu 16.4.3 from the ISO.
> It did not take long, and I heard the bongo sound, like as in the log-in 
> window.
> The VmWare required me to create a user name and password.
> I made up something that satisfied the required fields and continued to 
> the hear the aforementioned bongo sound.
> So I tried putting in my newly created user name and password, and I 
> could not seemingly boot to the desktop.
> I tried control + S, and I tried alt + F2 and entering orca, and still 
> seemingly nothing.
> I gave the machine 4GB RAM of the 8GB.
> Maybe I did not wait long enough for it to install?
> When that did not work, I deleted that one, and created another, this 
> time giving it the user name and password both of "ubuntu".
> Still, nothing.
> Given that the bongo sound happened, isn't it just about installed at 
> that point?
> Thanks for any assistance.
> Glenn
> 
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