virtualbox indicator should show the state of the vm

[franco_bez]

It would be great if in the indicator menu the state of the VM (not started, runing or suspended) were visible for each VM.

Additionally, if you choose a VM, that is already running, from the indicator menu it should be displayed in the foreground.
Currently this just does nothing.

[franco_bez (franco-bez)]

Just to clarify:
This bug is meant to go to the wishlist.

I think it would really be great if you were albe not just to start a VirtualBox Mashine,but also to see which ones are running in the indicator.
Beeing able to bring the running VirtualBoxes (maybe iconified or just running below an other Window) back to the user's view by clicking them in the indicator would simplify switching between VirtualBoxes a lot.

Last but not least it would be nice if the sort order of the VirtualBox entries in the indicator menu were the same as in the VirtualBox Apllication Main Window (the latter you can change by drag and drop)

[franco_bez (franco-bez)]

> Last but not least it would be nice if the sort order of the VirtualBox entries in the indicator menu
> were the same as in the VirtualBox Apllication Main Window (the latter you can change by drag and drop)

I found out that the sort order is saved in VirtualBox.xml as
<Global>
   <ExtraData>
      <ExtraDataItem name="GUI/SelectorVMPositions" value="..."/>

It keeps a comma separated list of the VMs uuids in the GUI sort order.

[Bernmeister (thebernmeister)]

Although not fixed in indicator-virtualbox, which is now obsolete, a new version has been released, indicator-virtual-box available at https://launchpad.net/~thebernmeister.