Follow through the rest of the installation routine, choosing options where
required. For example, most OSes let you choose which components to
install, as in the example shown in Figure 23-2.
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Moving the Focus Between the Virtual Machine and Other Windows
As you know, the focus determines which window receives the keypresses
from the keyboard and the clicks from the mouse. Normally, you switch focus
by clicking in a different window with the mouse or by pressing either ALT-TAB
or WINDOWS KEY??“TAB until Windows activates the window you want.
As soon as you start installing an OS with a graphical user interface in a
virtual machine, life becomes more complicated. Once you put the focus in the
virtual machine, you can switch it from window to window in similar ways
(the specifics depend on the OS). For example, once you??™ve clicked inside a
virtual machine running Windows, pressing ALT-TAB switches focus among the
windows in the virtual machine, not among the windows on your real PC.
At first, you need to release the virtual machine??™s grip on the focus manually
by pressing the right ALT key. But once you??™ve installed the OS on the virtual
machine, you can usually install Virtual Machine Additions from within
the OS. These Additions enable the virtual machine to grab the mouse pointer
as soon as it enters the Virtual PC window and release it when it exits the
window.
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