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
OS Icons as shortcuts
-
- Volunteer
- Posts: 3342
- Joined: 10. May 2007, 16:59
- Location: Israel
Re: OS Icons as shortcuts
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
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
-
- Volunteer
- Posts: 1699
- Joined: 13. Sep 2008, 02:18
Re: OS Icons as shortcuts
it should be somewhere in the OSE source => http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/DownloadsTechnologov wrote:B. Extract OS icon from VBox (use MS Paint to extract the icon)
-
- Posts: 6
- Joined: 11. Oct 2010, 09:22
- Primary OS: MS Windows 7
- VBox Version: PUEL
- Guest OSses: RHEL, Ubuntu
Re: OS Icons as shortcuts
Thx to both of you.
Yes, I found them in svn here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk ... Box/images
Regards,
Rainer
Yes, I found them in svn here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/browser/trunk ... Box/images
Regards,
Rainer
Re: OS Icons as shortcuts
This will be possible in the next major version of VirtualBox.