launch parallels on startup with virtuedesktop

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Stacey M

I'm new to Mac having moved over from PC but started using a MacBook Pro with Parallels to my great satisfaction.

There something I've been trying to get sorted for a while now, hope its possible and someone can help me out:

I'd like to have Parallels launch my Win XP in full screen mode on startup of OSX on my second desktop I've got set up with virtuedesktops.

That would allow me after start up to simply use a hot key to switch between OSX and XP without first having to launch the app in a separate application etc.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Peter
 
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As far as I know there is no way to autoboot , you need to press the play button. If you set the VM to switch to full screen on boot and lock parallels to one of your desktops, as soon as you have pressed play on the VM you are set. The only way would be for Parallels to include this as an option or look at scripting it.
 
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Having put a shortcut to .pvs file in the dock and setting auto launch i now get this message "Error occurred while trying to interact with Parallels driver! Parallels Desktop is either not installed or/and configured or has integrity problems, which prevent it from operating properly. Please reinstall the Parallels Desktop." it will boot if i reload it but never first time any ideas? I am using build 1896.2
 
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The issue is now the error message which I have now discovered is not linked to auto start at all I am looking for a solution, I have posted this as a seperate issue, suffice it to say the original question has been resolved
 
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