Since upgrading to Parallels Desktop 9 on my system .PVM files and alias and even the VM List on the PD9 dock icon no longer launch the virtual machine directly unless parallels desktop is already running.
1. Ensure PD9 is not running.
2. Either double-click a .PVM or right-click the PD9 dock icon and choose a VM.
3. Observe Parallels does not launch the VM, instead it brings up the Virtual Machines list.
The correct behavior of directly launching the VM existed in V8 as far as 8.0.18619 on my machine.
Can anyone else confirm this new behavior? IMHO this is a bug but I could also be missing something or have a mis-configured system hence the question
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Thanks.
Last edited: May 10, 2014