Pin apps in vmware vm to unity launcher

[JaySeeJC]

Just wondering if it's possible. I know vmware has a command line interface to make apps run in a vm. I'm wondering if it's possible to get said app to correspond with a launcher in unity. That way i could just leave the vm in vmware's unity mode. Is this possible? How would i go about setting this up for different apps in the vm?

[warp99]

You could make a *.desktop file with the command, then place the icon in the Unity launcher. Desktop files are located in /usr/share/applications. Here's one I made to launch XP in VMPlayer.

:/$ cat /usr/share/applications/vmware-player-xp.desktop 

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Windows XP
Comment=Run a virtual machine
Exec=/usr/bin/vmplayer /share/vmware/Windows\\ XP\\ Professional/Windows\\ XP\\ Professional.vmx
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=vmware-player
StartupNotify=true
Categories=System;
MimeType=application/x-vmware-vm;

Use this or one of the other *.desktop files in /usr/share/applications as a template for your *.desktop file. If you want the launcher available only to you save the file in ~./local/share/applications. If you want the launcher available for all users save the file to /usr/share/applications. Here's some more information on the command string needed:

http://everydaylht.com/howtos/deskto...linux-desktop/