Windows – Add custom Virtual Machine icons to VirtualBox

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I'd like to use custom icons to better distinguish machines running the same OS from each other, in VirtualBox. is this possible? If so, what file(s) do I need to add/edit?

Examples:

I've got two Windows 7 VMs. One I use as a sandbox for testing various things, and the other I use for when I need to connect to work (ideally, my personal system – the host machine – never directly connects). I'd like to have perhaps a beaker for the sandbox, and a suitcase for the work machine.

I've got two Ubuntu VMs. One is BackTrack Linux, the other is a build I'm using to learn more about the OS. I wouldn't mind keeping the regular icon for the latter, but I'd like to use one of BackTrack's icons or images for the former.

I'm running VirtualBox 4.1.6 on Windows 7 x64.

Best Answer

You can easily change the VM icon in the VirtualBox CLI by doing this command:

VBoxManage modifyvm  "VM Name" --iconfile D:\icon.png

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Mac – Accessing a Virtual Machine over Hamachi VPN

I just discovered what was going on on Linux, and this probably applies to Windows too.

Hamachi makes a bridged network interface to run the gateway through, and that becomes the "normal" network interface for the machine (on Linux, this is ham-br0 by default).

VirtualBox however, keeps the machine configuration bridged to the original physical network interface (eth0 on Linux). I ran the following while the VM was powered off to make VirtualBox bridge to the Hamachi adapter:

VBoxManage modifyvm <vm_name> --bridgeadapter1 ham-br0

This sets the adapter VirtualBox ties into to ham-br0. The VM is still visible from the non-Hamachi network as well. Like I said, this was on Linux, but VirtualBox's networking model remains more or less the same cross-platform.

VirtualBox – How to Access Files from the Hosting Machine

There are several ways to accomplish this.

You can use VBox's own Shared folders feature.

For this: Go to Settings of the Virtual Machine and then select: Shared Folders.

Click on Add Shared Folder button. Specify folder path and folder name.

In Virtual Machine you go to \\vboxsrv\

you would see your folders.

You can also Create a network share and access that share from within B to A.

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