boinc/samples/vboxmonitor/vboxmonitor.cpp

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// vboxmonitor [options]     BOINC VirtualBox monitor
// see: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/trac/wiki/VboxApps
// Options:
//
//
// Duplicate everything sent to stdin to the console and the VM Guest Log.
//
// You can see the VM Guest Log on the host machine by executing:
// vboxmanage showvminfo <vm_name> --log 0
//
// As a matter of course, vboxwrapper dumps the last 16k of the guest log to
// the stderr log which is uploaded to the project server in case of an error.
//
//

#include <sys/io.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

void guestlog(int c)
{
    asm volatile ("out %%al,%%dx\n" : : "a"(c), "d"(0x504));
}

int main() {
    std::string buffer;

    // Dump input stream to string buffer
    std::cin >> buffer;

    // root access required
    if (EPERM == iopl(3)) {
        printf("vboxmonitor: this application requires root permissions.\n");
        printf("vboxmonitor: NOTE: Use setuid to enable use by non-root accounts.\n\n");
        return 1;
    }

    // Write output to stdout as well as VirtualBox's Guest VM Log
    for (size_t i = 0; i < buffer.size(); ++i) {
        // Virtualbox
        guestlog((int)buffer[i]);

        // Console
        putc((int)buffer[i], stdout);
    }

    // Force newlines so that the text looks good on the console and causes
    // the guest additions to actually log the data
    guestlog('\n');
    putc('\n', stdout);

    return 0;
}