VBoxTrayIcon
Posted: 10. Apr 2013, 19:31
Hi
I wrote a simple application for running virtualboxes in tray icons. I already had tried VBoxHeadlessTray but wanted to specify custom icons for vms and couldn't find my way arround the code so I wrote my own simplified version(I also wanted to learn a bit of windows/COM/c++ programming). For now it only has the following features:
- Automatically save running vm state when you logout/reboot/shutdown
- Specify custom icons(I have more than one vm running so I tought it would be nice to associate each vm with an os-specific icon)
Usage is simple, just create a shortcut(one per vm) passing the vmname as first argument and (optionally) an icon as the second argument, eg:
"C:\Downloads\VBoxTrayIcon-x64.exe ubuntu ubuntu.ico"
If you put the shortcut in the startup directory then the vm will always be running when you logon to windows.
The code/executables are hosted on github. com/tarruda/VBoxTrayIcon (I cant post urls so join 'github.' with 'com' )
Any feedback is appreciated
I wrote a simple application for running virtualboxes in tray icons. I already had tried VBoxHeadlessTray but wanted to specify custom icons for vms and couldn't find my way arround the code so I wrote my own simplified version(I also wanted to learn a bit of windows/COM/c++ programming). For now it only has the following features:
- Automatically save running vm state when you logout/reboot/shutdown
- Specify custom icons(I have more than one vm running so I tought it would be nice to associate each vm with an os-specific icon)
Usage is simple, just create a shortcut(one per vm) passing the vmname as first argument and (optionally) an icon as the second argument, eg:
"C:\Downloads\VBoxTrayIcon-x64.exe ubuntu ubuntu.ico"
If you put the shortcut in the startup directory then the vm will always be running when you logon to windows.
The code/executables are hosted on github. com/tarruda/VBoxTrayIcon (I cant post urls so join 'github.' with 'com' )
Any feedback is appreciated