Lost in Spaces (Parallels Desktop on Mac OSX Lion)

After upgrading to Mac OS X Lion, I couldn't get to the Virtual Machine Window (of Ubuntu) which I was running previously on Snow Leopard. You can only see that window only when switching from one space to another. Weird but funny :-D

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Parallels Desktop 6
• Issue
• Mac OSX
• Lion
• Bug
• Funny
• Strange
• Weird

[sohungsum]

i got the same issue too

[sreejithemk]

@sohungsum Right click on the Parallels Dock Icon. Then Options -> Assign To -> This Desktop will fix this issue. (Create a Dock Icon if you don't have one). Hope this helps

[niall111]

@sreejithemk No, those are the options when it is running also. The real solution is to delete all your "Spaces" except the main one, then shut down and restart Parallels and the VM window will be visible again.

[MrBesabella]

There is a known issue w/ "spaces." Check out their KB article #111614 on their KB site.

[sreejithemk]

@niall111 Assigning Desktop solved the issue in my case. According to @Lougi95 thats a solution given by Parallels.

[sreejithemk]

@niall111 First you have to just click the icon to open the application. Once its started, you'll get the options when you right click.

[niall111]

@sreejithemk If I right click on Parallels icon in my dock, and go to Options, there are only 3 options. "Keep in Dock", "Open at login" and "Show in Finder"

How do I assign the window to desktop then?

[lukeibe]

i have a different error. when i go to run it parallels says it will run slow because visualization is disabled, then it says it can't load the parallels driver, and it won't start. what do i do?

[Lougi95]

Another issue : go in mission control app and delete all space, just take one, reboot, and relaunch parallels, it's ok too. (faq from parallels)

[Lougi95]

many thank's to you, it's fixed now.

[sreejithemk]

@Lougi95 Right click on the Parallels Dock Icon. Then Options -> Assign To -> This Desktop will fix this issue. (Create a Dock Icon if you don't have one). Hope this helps

[Lougi95]

how to reset desktop assignment, i don't find in Lion ....

[sreejithemk]

It turns out that it was a problem with desktop assignment. Somehow it was set to None.