Zxian Posted January 23, 2007 Share Posted January 23, 2007 Does anyone know how to make a link to start a VM directly? I'd rather not have two windows open when I want to just run my single VM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 not a direct solution but fyi you can close the first window or what i am calling the "vm mananger" and just leave the running VM window open. unrelated but figured it might help someone currently the only way I know of to get files into the vm is by creating an iso file and mounting it or through a shared network folder but you must connect by ip ex "\\192.168.0.4" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Yea Dig - I know I can do that, but I'd prefer to have a single shortcut to open just the VM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 just checking because I was afraid to close the window at first found a solution using VBoxManage make a shortcut to it like follows:"\Program Files\InnoTek VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" startvm XP_PRO_SP2I named my vm "XP_PRO_SP2" btw its case sensitive.Have a look at the VirtualBox User Manual:Chapter 6. Alternative VirtualBox frontendsDue to VirtualBox clean, modular design, it is relatively painless to create an alternative frontend tothe complex virtualization engine that is the core of VirtualBox. If VirtualBox, the graphical userinterface described in Chapter 3, Starting out with VirtualBox,does not suit your needs, VirtualBoxcomes with several alternative frontends for certain scenarios. These are:1. VBoxManage, which allows you to control all aspects of VirtualBox from the command line --including those that the VirtualBox graphical user interface does not expose. This is describedin the following chapter.2. VBoxSDL, an alternative graphical front end based on SDL. This is described in Section 6.2,“VBoxSDL, the full-screen interface”.3. VBoxVRDP, another frontend that produces no visible output on the host at all, but merely actsas a VRDP server; see Section 6.3, “VBoxVRDP, the headless VRDP server”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenBlade Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 Isn't Virtual PC Free anyway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zxian Posted January 24, 2007 Share Posted January 24, 2007 @Digerati - Thanks for that info. I'll have a deeper look into their possibilities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phkninja Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 FrozenBlade- Yes Virtual PC is free, but it can be bloatware at times. also some people like to use more than 1 VM to test their ISO files before burning them to disk.Also Virtual PC can be a bit complex for people who have never used a VM before (must add Additiona components to allow mouse to escape VM window withjout having to remeber the escape key) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 (must add Additiona components to allow mouse to escape VM window withjout having to remeber the escape key)Yes , though rather faint, you can sometimes hear the screams of the poor cursor, hopelessly trapped inside the VM window..... ....the horror of it all.... ...how cruel were the Connectix/Microsoft guys.... jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarun Posted January 25, 2007 Share Posted January 25, 2007 Also Virtual PC can be a bit complex for people who have never used a VM before (must add Additiona components to allow mouse to escape VM window withjout having to remeber the escape key)Yes, or simply press right alt as they tell you to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phkninja Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Tarun -without having to remeber the escape key) was stated above. It doesnt have to be the right ALT key, this can be changed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 It doesnt have to be the right ALT key, this can be changedYes, the same thing can happen with your login password on most system.The point I was trying to make is that there is no actual need to change the default key, and if you go on and change it and your memory is so bad that you cannot remember it, you can stick a Post-it™ near your screen with the "new" key written on it or just try the few keys that can be assigned the function.All in all, I don't see this as a major problem or as a reason to prefer another VM to Virtual PC (size of install, speed and compatibility with different booting methods appear to me as a more accurate comparison area). jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scankurban Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Bsplayer pro,ghost 8.3 (dos) not working.Bs player closing like debugger active.Kaspersky antivirus 6 freezing machine,Virtualbox very high speed but sometimes locking keyboard.But i'm still using Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glent Posted January 26, 2007 Share Posted January 26, 2007 Great App thnx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenBlade Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I find VPC very easy to use :S VMWare looks more confusing to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZcWorld Posted January 29, 2007 Share Posted January 29, 2007 its nicei did an howto to get it install on linux the one they got is nicebut i found it was a tab eeek but its looks and feels like VMware to me about 10 mins quicker to install than VMware workstation on windows n linuxand a heap quicker to downloadrunning speed : i found was about the same : but im not sure on the network speed yet i haven't had time to test it due to my linux box is without an monitor at the time .. but its an nice program link to my howto for linux install of it on centos / fc / suseabout 4 pages about 1.2 mb of pics in total of them pages Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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