Parallels Coherence - Multiple Monitors with Different Resolutions?

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I am running Parallels across three monitors in Coherence mode. While I am able to move items from desktop to desktop, it looks like Windows under Parallels is seeing all three monitors as one big screen. The problem is that one of my screens has a larger vertical resolution than the other two, so items on the smaller screens keep opening in Parallels outside of the viewable area.

Is there a way to make parallels/Windows treat multiple monitors as separate screens/resolutions, or alternatively, is there a way to have coherence only use a set resolution (which I would set as the full horizontal resolution of all three screens combined, and the vertical res of the small screens)?
 
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It now works as good as in Fusion, no more probs with screens of different resolutions.
Unfortunately the Marketing Department did miss to announce this long awaited feature in a proper way.


-- Harald
 
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Jason and others-

I was already planning to do a trial of the competitive "VMwF" product tonight, so I also downloaded the new Parallels 5. After installing a clean version of Windows 7 on each, downloading updates and rebooting, I was able to select the "use all monitors in full screen" option in Parallels. When I right clicked on the Windows desktop and went to "change resolution", I hit the "identify" button and low and behold a "1" appeared in the middle of one screen and a "2" in the other.

When I put Parallels into Coherence mode, the windows start icon appeared in my system tray (right monitor.) Clicking on this button brought up my Windows start menu, but on the left monitor hovering above where the start button used to be. Certainly not a show stopper, but it was a little odd.

To be fair, VMwF seemed to have a hard time if I booted directly into full screen mode, but switching to "window" then back to "full screen" seemed to sort out the confusion. As my monitors are offset (corner to corner instead of side to side) and reversed (primary to the bottom right for Mac, primary to top left for Windows) the layout may just not be what the engineers anticipated.

I haven't made my mind up which product I'm going to use for my Windows 7 VMs. 20 minutes of testing each is hardly decisive. Multi-monitor support was a deal breaker for me, now I think I have two trial products to pound on this weekend. I recommend you give the trial version a shot if multi-monitor is all that held you back. And as always, YMMV....

Hope it helps!
 
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