#COHERENCE X MAC MAC OS X#
I didn't recall installing a driver for the DisplayLink on the Mac OS X side. I stepped away, found a leftover sandwich in the fridge, and thought on this for a while. So I went to the DisplayLink site and downloaded the Windows drivers. The Coherence mode worked until I added the USB-to-HDMI connected DisplayLink device. And if there's no working driver, then Windows can't go into Coherence. The Parallels support representative told me that when in Coherence mode, Windows has to handle some more of the hardware driver responsibilities, rather than relying on the Mac. Unfortunately, I kept getting an "Unable to switch to Coherence" message, stating that: "The virtual machine configuration could not be applied."Īfter a very pleasant but ultimately unproductive support call to Parallels, I was almost ready to call it quits. My first attemptĪt first, it looked like I was going to lose out on one of my goals: to have Windows applications and Mac applications coexist side-by-side in their own windows without having to switch into and out of the Windows desktop. This is about the most complex environment Coherence has to handle. To make matters worse, I have one Thunderbolt monitor, I have one monitor connected via a USB-to-HDMI connection, and I have one monitor connected via DisplayPort-to-DVI that's then been rotated 90-degrees. While Coherence generally works fine for users with one monitor, the boards are chock full of stories of people with a second monitor having problems - and I have four monitors. It's doing some serious magic to let those environments coexist as if they were one system when they're completely different environments. Parallels gets a little fussy in Coherence mode. I use applications and resources from both Mac and Windows and I wanted to be able to move between them quickly and easily.
#COHERENCE X MAC FOR MAC#
Rather than, for example, running on a Windows 8.1 desktop, you can run on the Mac desktop and some windows can be for Mac applications and some for Windows applications.Īs the video above demonstrates, this is what I needed. Coherence mode allows application windows to coexist side by side. Key to this is something Parallels calls Coherence mode.
#COHERENCE X MAC HOW TO#
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