I finally got around to setting up Parallels and installling XP so I can more easily test sites in IE6 and IE7. However, the one feature I was most excited about was coherence. Now, setting up Parallels and getting a virtual machine set up couldn’t have been more easy, but out of the box, coherence wouldn’t work. The button was there, but nothing happened when I clicked it.
So, I googled it, and came across this page. It had just what I needed. It turns out, you have to manually install Parallels Tools (you actually begin this process on your mac, then make it happen within your virtual machine.)
Once I did this, I was running in coherence mode immediately, and it was all better. (by the way, coherence mode allows you to not have to run your virtual machine confined to a window. It places the Windows Start bar at the bottom of your browser, and you just launch apps just as if they were made to run in Mac OS X, it’s amazing, and I love it.)