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VBoxHeadlessTray is a simple utility I wrote some time ago that hosts a VirtualBox virtual machine as a Windows tray icon. Today I cleaned it up a little and released it as a free utility.
Full instructons, download and source code here.
Posted on February 10, 2010
HoKe says:
Hi, greate work, I was looking for something like this for long time.
it works fine after logon. is there a possibility to run the VM without logging on? so that it starts before logon?
Thx HoKe
Brad Robinson says:
No, there's no option to launch before logging into windows. However you might be interested in this http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4762 which runs a VM as a Windows service.
I wanted something halfway between that and the current VirtualBox frontend GUI, which is VBoxHeadlessTray.
Aaron says:
Thanks! Was just minimizing my windows but after I found this, there is less clutter. Thanks again.
DJ says:
Wow what a perfect little tool! Thanks for sharing!
Ning says:
Virtualbox 3.2 was just released today. Your fantastic nearly perfect little tool, VBoxHeadlessTray stopped working for me. Looking forward to an update.
Ning says:
Not working for VirtualBox 3.2.0. Eager for an update!