On 22/09/2009, at 9:22 AM, James Devenish wrote:
Hi Clyde,
2009/9/22 Clyde McLennan <cmcle...@westnet.com.au>:
Following on from the helpful discussion and comments about the
three VM
programs, I thought I would try the free one, VirtualBox.
No problem installing virtualbox, but didn't get far installing
windows
XP. Came unstuck during the installation when it asked me to press
F8 to
accept the Windows terms and conditions.
With some keyboards (especially laptops), you might find that you have
to hold down the Fn (function) key while pressing the F8 key. This is
because F8 might be assigned to some other function in Mac OS X, like
'Play/Pause'.
I use VirtualBox for running several versions of Windows and Linux,
and have to say I don't recall encountering this issue at all.
I think this is a rare issue, so it would be helpful to know what Mac
OS X and hardware you are using.
James
Hi Clyde,
Check in System Preferences > Keyboard - Keyboard Shortcuts to see
what keyboard shortcuts you have set on your Mac.
Normally F8 Activates Spaces (if you have Spaces 'Enabled').
You could take the 'tick' out of the Activate Spaces F8 in Keyboard
shortcuts just until you install XP (if it requires F8).
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard
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