If macOS feature Displays have separate spaces is enabled, you will switch between Mac and virtual machine spaces on every display independently. When Mac displays have separate spaces (see step 1) After that simply enter Full Screen view mode and the virtual machine will extend to all displays. There are two different ways to use your virtual machine on all monitors, but for both scenarios your need open View menu of the virtual machine > enable Use All Displays in Full Screen option. This setup is very convenient when you want to dedicate one display to your virtual machine but leave the others for macOS. Move the virtual machine window to the corresponding monitor and enter full screen. Start a virtual machine, click View macOS menu tab and make sure Use All Displays in Full Screen is not checked.ģ. NOTE: to apply these changes you need to log out from your Mac account(Apple logo -> Log out) and login back again.Ģ. Open macOS System Preferences > Mission Control > Make sure that ' Displays have separate spaces' feature is enabled. If you want to use your virtual machine on one of the external displays connected to Mac:ġ.

Use Ctrl+arrow (left or right) keyboard combination.

Swipe your Magic Mouse left or right with two fingers.Swipe your Trackpad left or right with three fingers.To switch between virtual machine space and macOS use one of the following actions: Move the pointer to the top of the screen until the macOS menu bar appears and click View > Exit Full Screen.

To exit Full Screen mode, do one of the following: Note: the same action works with Dock when moving the mouse to the screen bottom. To invoke macOS menu bar, simply move your mouse cursor to the very top of the screen, the menu bar will appear in a second. When in Full Screen mode, macOS menu bar and the Dock are hidden. Then again click the View menu and select Enter Full Screen.įrom Window mode, select View > Enter Full Screen or click the Full Screen(green) icon in the top left corner of the virtual machine window. Windows) icon in Dock, then select View - Exit Coherence. Single Monitor Enter Full Screen To enter Full Screen view mode, do one of the following:įrom Coherence mode, right click the guest operating system (e.g. You can set Parallels virtual machine to occupy the entire Mac screen, one of your external screens or all connected external displays.

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