Hi Clyde, I had the same problem when I was installing VB on my MacBook. Instead I plugged my spare Logitech keyboard (a cheap $18 one) and completed the installation of XP Home Edition. XP works very well and I even installed the whole Office 2007 Enterprise edition without the slightest problem.
I do however have one thing which does not work. I cannot get XP to recognise thumb drives plugged into a USB Hub, or for that matter any of my two external drives one of which is FW and the other USB. There must be way to do so but have not found it yet. Best of luck if you try again. Regards, Philippe C. 2009/9/22 Clyde McLennan <cmcle...@westnet.com.au>: > > Hi Ronda, Bill & James, > Did as you suggested (ie, changed the preference) but still no joy. > > I'm running on iMac with leopard 10.5.6. > > There is no function key (like on many PC's) so couldn't try that > suggestion. > > Thanks for the help - at this stage I will stick with Parallels, but I was > keen to try the VirtualBox, but can do without it. > > Cheers ... Clyde > > > > On 22/09/2009, at 10:43 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: > >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
