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Hi!

I'm running vbox 2.1.4 non-oss under Ubuntu 8.10 x86-64 with a WinXP Pro 32bit guest VM.

I'm aware vbox has a seamless mode but I'd like to take that a step further as I don't want the windows taskbar or even to have to manually launch vbox. I would ideally like to be able to create a menu or desktop shortcut (launcher) that would run a vbox command that would fire up my winxp vm (invisibly in the background) then launch a specific program, Word 2007 under winxp for example. Once I've finished using Word and I exit the app, vbox would then be shut down unless there are other active sessions using that same XP VM of course.

I read the FAQ and looked through all the virtualbox command line options and the manual but I can't find a way to achieve this. If such a feature is not already implemented, is it planned for a future vbox release?

Thanks!

Dan

You can probably get a similar effect to what you're after by installing SeamlessRDP under the guest and using rdesktop as directed on the host, and you'll need to have a host interface networking set up I'm sure (not 100% positive though, perhaps someone else can elaborate on getting to the guest from the outside).

VritualBox itself doesn't have knowledge on how Windows works, it's just providing the virtual hardware that the guest can utilize

See http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic. ... rty#p43272