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How To Take Screenshots Of VirtualBox VMs VirtualBox is a great virtualization solution, however if lacks one big feature: the ability to take screenshots of a virtual machine. Of course, you can use the host operating system's print screen feature, but this wil ltake a picture of the whole workspace, including window decorations, etc. which you will have to remove in your iage editing software which is a tedious task. This tutorial describes how you can create a little script that automatically takes a screenshot of a VirtualBox VM when you click on it; it makes use of the VirtualBox command line tool VBoxManage.

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By: Uteck
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That is neat, but you can do the same thing much easier using the normal screenshot tools.

Create a application launcher that launches gnome-screenshot using the interactive option, or just launch it from the command line or with ALT+F2

gnome-screenshot --interactive

By: ADI
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This is perfect, thanks for the pics, they really help.