A method provides graphical control using virtualization for remote control of industrial automated machines. A guest agent application running on the same virtual machine is introduced as a legacy tool application i.e. source application. Instead of displaying the graphical user interface of the source application in an embedded window, the interface is managed by the guest agent application. The virtual machine, on which both the guest agent application and the tool application run, is in turn managed by a Hypervisor. A new application i.e. a destination application is connected to the guest agent application and the Hypervisor through both of which the interaction of the destination application with the tool is mediated.