diff --git a/samples/vboxwrapper/vbox.cpp b/samples/vboxwrapper/vbox.cpp
index 947671bd7d..582f5186ee 100644
--- a/samples/vboxwrapper/vbox.cpp
+++ b/samples/vboxwrapper/vbox.cpp
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ bool VBOX_VM::is_running() {
     if (vbm_popen(command, output) == 0) {
         vmstate_location = output.find("VMState=\"");
         if (vmstate_location != string::npos) {
-            vmstate_location += 9;
+            vmstate_location += 10;
             vmstate_length = output.find("\"", vmstate_location);
             vmstate = output.substr(vmstate_location, vmstate_length);