BUG: With multiple monitors in OSX Mavericks, using separate spaces, clicking in the vm forces ALL monitors to switch to the vm. PLEASE FIX.

[BenWilde]

BUG: With multiple monitors in OSX Mavericks, using separate spaces, clicking in the vm forces ALL monitors to switch to the vm.

This is HIGHLY UNDESIRABLE.

Please fix.

[KumarLande]

Hey Ben,

This looks like not a bug for me. Mac OS X identifies multiple monitors and treats them as different desktops and creates different spaces on it. However when it comes to Fusion it identify the multiple monitors however would not treat them as different desktops(This is a limitation)

-So when you extend or tell the VM to use full screen it would use the 1st monitor's screen + 1 space on the 1st monitor itself(Which is not seen on the 2nd monitor)

-If you would like to use all the monitors, there is a setting under System Preferences >Mission Control >Uncheck Displays have different spaces.

(However if you disable this, you would be compromising on this Mac OS X feature)

Hope this helps you...

Cheers..

[BenWilde]

I'm using "Use all displays in full screen" in VMware, as well as "Displays have separate spaces" on the mac side.

Here's an example:

I have VMware showing on 2 displays, with the settings as I described above.

I move display 1 over to a space in the mac side.

I click in display 2 (which is still the vm),

Instantly display 1 goes back to the vm.

Call it what you want, This is a bug.

And I'm not the only one who cares: VMWare Fusion 6 on a MAC with Mavericks - Multiple Display Setup

VMware Fusion 6 claims to have "Complete support for OS X Mavericks". Not true.

Parallels Desktop does not have this issue. I just switched from it to vmware actually, because its frankly not very stable.

Overall I'm really pleased with VMware, but I was very disappointed when I ran into this bug.

Please fix.