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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

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

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

Thx to both of you.

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

Regards,
Rainer

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