VM window no longer honors Spaces Application Assignment

The latest Parallels Desktop 6 build (Build 6.0.11990 - Revision 621014; November 29, 2010) introduced this issue. Parallels Desktop VM window does not honor its Application Assignment under System Preferences | Spaces.

Here are the reproduction steps for this issue.

1. Open System Preferences and configure Spaces for 4 spaces.
2. In the Application Assignments list, add Parallels Desktop and assign it to Space 2.
3. Switch to Space 2, start Parallels Desktop and start a Windows 7 fullscreen VM.
4. Suspend the VM.
5. Resume the VM. While the resume is taking place, switch to any other Space besides Space 2.

When the VM resume completes, the VM displays in the active Space and not Space 2.

In all previous versions and builds of Parallels Desktop, starting or resuming a VM would result in the VM displaying in the Space configured in step #2 above regardless of which Space is currently active. In the most recent Parallels Desktop 6 build, this was broken. Re-installing Parallels does not fix this and reconfiguring Spaces does not fix this.

I will be reporting a problem for this issue later today.

Here is my system information:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro6,1
Processor Name: Intel Core i7
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: MBP61.0057.B0C
SMC Version (system): 1.57f16
System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.5 (10H574)
Kernel Version: Darwin 10.5.0
Boot Volume: MacBook Pro HD
Boot Mode: Normal
Secure Virtual Memory: Enabled
64-bit Kernel and Extensions: No
Time since boot: 6 days 21:19

 

Support incident Parallels #1064155 has been opened to get this issue resolved.