diff --git a/virtualbox.changes b/virtualbox.changes
index 1b5fdba..46bf3c8 100644
--- a/virtualbox.changes
+++ b/virtualbox.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 09 12:14:51 UTC 2014 - joerg.lorenzen@ki.tng.de
+
+- added subpackage virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons, contains icons
+  to provide os-specific icons for guest desktop files created on desktop.
+  
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Dec 13 19:43:37 UTC 2013 - coolo@suse.com
 
diff --git a/virtualbox.spec b/virtualbox.spec
index 551d0a6..849f93e 100644
--- a/virtualbox.spec
+++ b/virtualbox.spec
@@ -255,6 +255,16 @@ Obsoletes:      %{name}-ose-devel < %version
 %description devel
 Development file for %{name}
 ###########################################
+%package guest-desktop-icons
+Summary:        Icons for guest desktop files
+Group:          System/Emulators/PC
+Requires:       %{name} = %{version}
+Recommends:     %{name}-gui = %{version}
+BuildArch:      noarch
+
+%description guest-desktop-icons
+This package contains icons for guest desktop files that were created on the desktop.
+###########################################
 %prep
 %setup -q -n VirtualBox-%{version}
 %patch1
@@ -598,12 +608,25 @@ popd
 					%{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/rcvboxweb-service
 #
 ######################################################
+echo "entering virtualbox-guest-desktop-icons install section"
+######################################################
+%__install -d -m 755	%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/pixmaps/virtalbox
+
+pushd src/VBox/Frontends/VirtualBox/images
+for icon in os_*.png; do
+  %__install -m 644 "$icon" %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/pixmaps/virtalbox/"$icon";
+done
+popd
+#
+######################################################
 # run fdupes
 ######################################################
 #run fdupes because we lost link for virtualbox/components directory
 %fdupes %{buildroot}/%{_vbox_instdir}
 #also some translation files are duplicated
 %fdupes %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/virtualbox/nls
+#also some icon files are duplicated
+%fdupes %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/pixmaps/virtalbox
 
 #
 #
@@ -846,4 +869,9 @@ exit 0
 %{_sysconfdir}/init.d/vboxweb-service
 %{_sbindir}/rcvboxweb-service
 
+%files guest-desktop-icons
+%defattr(-,root, root)
+%dir %{_datadir}/pixmaps/virtalbox
+%{_datadir}/pixmaps/virtalbox/*.png
+
 %changelog