I'm trying to figure out how to keep a shortcut from my Windows XP (sp3) guest OS in my dock. The problem is the shortcut in the guest OS has (and requires) a specific parameter (command line argument). When I add it in the dock, this gets lost, so starting the application fails. Is there a way to specify the command line argument for "Keep in Dock", or should it keep the same ones that were used in the shortcut originally?
What do you mean that application failed to start, even if VM is turned off, clicking on icon should start Virtual Machine and application (if you have autologon)
Issues when adding It's an application that requires command line arguments to be passed into it in order to startup correctly. The dock icon will start the app, but it doesn't preserve any of the command line arguments (parameters) that are specified in the shortcut within Windows. Without those, it doesn't startup correctly, and shuts itself down immediately. Shortcuts in Windows contain more than just the executable path - they also contain the command line arguments. The "Keep in Dock" feature is only tracking the application path, and loses the arguments, which prevents the application from starting correctly.
It would be nice if this were possible, even by hand editing some of the .app package contents. (I tried changing the command line in AppParams.pva manually, but this didn't work.)
