Running VirtualBox from a command line
As I’ve mentioned in the past, VirtualBox is my favourite of all the virtualisation tools out there. I use it to run Kubuntu on my Windows XP machine, for web development purposes.
Anyway, I have just the one “guest” machine, Kubuntu, so it seems a bit tedious to have to start VirtualPC each time. Nautrally, there is another way – a command line shortcut.
Cutting to the chase, I’m assuming you know how to create a shortcut. I’ll also assume you’re using the latest version of VirtualBox, since it was rebranded under the Sun banner. Right, here’s the shortcut…
"C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm xxx
Where xxx is the name of your virtual guest.
And that’s it really. Oh, and if you want to make it pretty, I even found a Kubuntu icon to make that shortcut look even more appropriate.
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