Comments on: How to Create Shortcut For Virtual Machine in VirtualBox

By: KiltBear

KiltBear — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:49:06 +0000

On Mac Snow Leopard I am find that the following works:

At the system prompt:

/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage startvm VirtualMachineName

so you can make an apple script or shell script that executes this command.

I created a simple Applescript that contains simply:

do shell script “/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/VBoxManage startvm XP”

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By: reed1

reed1 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:08:43 +0000

Very handy. Thanks : )

By: Tommy

Tommy — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 23:38:29 +0000

You can use virtual machine names with spaces as well, as long as you wrap the names in quotes so “drive:\path\VBoxManage.exe” startvm “name with spaces”

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