Openbox, Virtualbox… Coincidence? I don’t know. Anyway, I am a huge fan of VirtualBox, for the virtual machines are extremely fast, stable and nice to control. With the command line tool VBoxManage comes a nice tool for all those CLI-lovers out there. You can literally do anything with it, what the GUI can do. (at least it looks like that)
Now, starting the GUI to start a VM is a bit slow, so VBoxManage startvm "vm" is a huge time- and memorysaver.
Since I work with Openbox, the natural thing for me was to google for a suitable pipemenu. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find one. Long story short: Here is my self-written Openbox pipemenu to control VirtualBox’s VMs. (It can start and stop them, at least.)
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