True VM switching

[sebconn]

Hi there,

Been using PDM for quite a while now and loving it, great for a techie that works at both Mac and Windows environments.

Anyhoo there's one tiny thing that gives me the irrits, but there may be a way around it. At the moment alt enter simply takes the VM out of fullscreen, does the pretty animation and whatnot and then you have the Windowed VM sitting there. However I've always wanted it to work like a virtual desktop, when in Mac OS I'd love a universal key combination that switches to the running VM in full screen, and then the same, or another keystroke to go back to Mac OS, but hide the application as well, just to make it a little more seamless.

Does anyone know of a possible way to do this?

 

[sebconn]

Just so people know. I worked around it by using Desktop Manager 0.5.3 I keep the VM open in full screen on the second desktop, and I switch between the 2. Works perfectly.

http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-114468134286150641

 

[darkone]

I'm using virtuedesktops to do the same thing.

 

[Tony Arnold]

Errr... I'm not trying to be rude, but people have been using Parallels in this manner for around 7-8 months: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbt9upE6hpM

 

[sebconn]

ahh well, it's damn handy. You learn something everyday.

I just hope it works this smoothly with spaces on lepoard

 

[ginjaninja]

Another way to switch, without installing any 3rd party apps, is to simply hide Parallels using COMMAND-H and then use COMMAND-TAB to flip back to fullscreen Parallels when requried.

Much easier than using Desktop Manager (or similar) - although, to be fair, it is a great product