Serious problem with coherence mode forcing windows to the front in Parallels 6
We have four users in a professional setting on various generations of MacBook Pros (both 13' and 15') running OS/X 10.6.5 and Parallels Desktop Build 6.0.11992 with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit as the guest operating system running off a boot camp partition and Office 2007 Standard as the most important application.
We're all running in Coherence-mode. Crystal mode is disabled and the "Keep on top of other windows" option in the VM configuration is unchecked.
We all experience the same problem as described by previous posters with applications in the guest operating system being pushed to the front and gaining autofocus while we're in the middle of doing other things in the host operation system's applications. A concrete example: Using Safari or Firefox for OS/X with Microsoft Word 2007 for Windows running in the VM. All of a sudden the window with Word running gets pushed to the front and gains autofocus. This is seriously disrupting our work.
Two of us have upgraded from Parallels 5 and we did not experience the problem with the latest build of that version.
I'd like to hear if anyone else out there experiences the same problem and if you have found a way to disable it. I think we've been around all the options in the VM configuration mode in vain. It would also be very, very useful for us to know if the Parallels team can reproduce the issue.
Last edited: Dec 30, 2010