After creating my VirtualBox applications and slapping them on the Dock, I decided that I didn’t like the default VirtualBox icon for those apps. The problem was exacerbated when I put them next to each other, making them indistinguishable at a quick glance. I figured out how to change the icons for those virtual machines, [...]

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Mac OS X: If you want to launch a VirtualBox machine directly as an application, you’ll need to know some basic AppleScript. Open Script Editor and enter the following: do shell script “vboxmanage startvm Ubuntu” Substitute Ubuntu for the name of your virtual machine. If you’ve got a machine with a space in the name, [...]

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