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Command to start a VirutalBox Virtual Machine

February 11th, 2011 admin No comments

To start a virtual machine in VirtualBox directly without its management GUI, you can use this command,

“c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” startvm {344deca7-3272-454a-b845-77777777777}

note: 344deca7-3272-454a-b845-77777777777  is uuid which can also be checked with command vBoxManager.exe. This is an example output.

C:\Users\it1999>”c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe” list vms
“Ubuntu 10.10 VirtualBox” {344deca7-3272-454a-b845-77777777777}

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How to add “DOS Command” in your right menu

November 29th, 2008 admin No comments

1. Create a new .reg file, like dos.reg

2. edit .reg file created, add following lines.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\MS-DOS]
@=”DOS Command”
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\MS-DOS\command]
@=”cmd.exe /k cd %1″

3. save the .reg file

4. double click .reg file to run it

5. right click to test “DOS Command” function

Notes: Only in Windows XP.