Yuri Gorokhov

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

VirtualBox Indicator Applet for Gnome


As a software product tester at Mindtouch I often need to have multiple Virtual Machines up and running. I use Oracle's Virtualbox, and found it quite annoying to have to open the control panel every time I need to start a VM, or go looking for the VM I need to suspend on the different workspaces. So I decided to create a small indicator applet for gnome. It is programmed using GTK, so it should be compatible with any GTK Desktop Environment. As you can see it is pretty simple in nature and allows you to start and suspend your VM's. I also made use of the notification library to provide clean notifications of user actions.

If you want to try it out for yourself the code is here: github

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