Creating a dock icon

[Burak]

Hello board,


Thank you for all contribute to this real great project and those who take questions. I had bunch of hick-ups but I was able locate answers via search which worked but I can't seem to find a "working" solution for what I'm trying to do.

I have created a virtual box called Windows XP on Mac OS X 10.5.6 and I'm using Virtual Box 2.1.4

I want to create a dock icon with a windows XP logo to launch this virtual machine and I was able locate some scripting which would do this but the scripts I located are giving an error without launching a thing.

How can I do this?

Thanks in advance!!!

[tkwm]

http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... pplescript
and, remember - you can search the forum!

[Burak]

I did find that tread and creating a script with the item below gives a scripting error

do shell script "vboxmanage startvm NAMEOFYOURVIRTUALMACHINE"

[tkwm]

You should replace "NAMEOFYOURVIRTUALMACHINE" with the name of your virtual-machine.

[Burak]

This is exactly what I created which gave me the scripting error.

do shell script "vboxmanage startvm Windows XP"

[tkwm]

Your VMs name should be exactly the same you choosed in the virtualbox-properties and the name is case-sensitive.

But maybe this peace of code works:

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    set VB_GUEST to "Windows XP"

    set VB_PATH to "/usr/bin/"

    set VB_VM to quoted form of VB_GUEST
    do shell script VB_PATH & "VBoxManage startvm " & VB_VM

[SlaunchaMan]

This is exactly what I created which gave me the scripting error.

do shell script "vboxmanage startvm Windows XP"

The problem is that there's a space in the name of the VM. vboxmanage interprets the name as two separate command-line parameters. There are two options here: either surround the name of the VM with escaped quotes or use the VM's UUID instead of its name. This will work:

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do shell script "/usr/bin/vboxmanage startvm \"Windows XP\""

Or you could use the vboxmanage list vms command to find your VM's UUID. In my case, here's the output of that command:

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aristotle:~ slauncha$ vboxmanage list vms
VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 2.2.0_BETA2
(C) 2005-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
All rights reserved.

"Ubuntu 9.04 Beta" {d149b343-998f-4298-a136-1b17638107fc}

So I'd put this in an AppleScript:

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do shell script "/usr/bin/vboxmanage startvm d149b343-998f-4298-a136-1b17638107fc"

Either method will fix your problem.