beta freezes upon OS install

Hi!

I just got around to installing Parallels and am using the beta. I was able to successfully create a VM, however when I started the install of Windows XP, when the installer got the the EULA, I was not able to strike the F8 key and have it accept the EULA. I had captured the mouse/keyboard, however it seemed that just the F8 key did not respond in the VM, it was still active in the Mac OS. The mouse and other keys were captured properly.

I then stopped the VM and restarted it, the cursor was not blinking and was in the startup BIOS screen display. It would not continue to boot any further. I essentially have a frozen VM.

1.83 ghz MacBook Pro
2 gig ram
256 allocated to the VM
60 gig available hdd space

Thanks

 

Try to use Fn + F8 for MBP.

 

Thanks, that worked.

I ended up deleting the vm files and recreating a vm, as I couldn't figure out how to unfreeze the vm.