OS Icons as shortcuts

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Romario
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OS Icons as shortcuts

Post by Romario »

Hi,

am using VB on Win7-64bit and I start my VMs with shortcuts on the desktop.
Is there a way to use the OS icons with these shortcuts which are used in the VB gui for the different OSes?

Thx
Rainer
Technologov
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Re: OS Icons as shortcuts

Post by Technologov »

VirtualBox provides no standard way to do this procedure. A Wish #1889 exist.

Yes, this is possible, but this is far from standard and requires custom scripting.

A. Create batch files somewhere
C:\vbox-bats\Start_XP.bat

File should have one line:
"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm "Windows XP myVM"

B. Extract OS icon from VBox (use MS Paint to extract the icon)
print screen, ctrl+V
Then download GIMP and convert it from Bitmap (*.bmp) to Windows Icon (*.ico) format.

C. create shortcut to desktop (right click on your batch file ->Send To->Desktop)
Right click on the resulting shortcut and change it's icon.

-Technologov
fixedwheel
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Re: OS Icons as shortcuts

Post by fixedwheel »

Technologov wrote:B. Extract OS icon from VBox (use MS Paint to extract the icon)
it should be somewhere in the OSE source => http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Romario
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Re: OS Icons as shortcuts

Post by Romario »

Thx to both of you.

Yes, I found them in svn here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk ... Box/images

Regards,
Rainer
poetzsch
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Re: OS Icons as shortcuts

Post by poetzsch »

This will be possible in the next major version of VirtualBox.
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