boinc/samples/vboxmonitor/vboxmonitor.cpp

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// This file is part of BOINC.
// http://boinc.berkeley.edu
// Copyright (C) 2010-2012 University of California
//
// BOINC is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
// under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License
// as published by the Free Software Foundation,
// either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
//
// BOINC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
// See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
// along with BOINC. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
// vboxmonitor [options] BOINC VirtualBox monitor
// see: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/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
//
// vboxwrapper dumps the last 16k of the guest log to the stderr log
// which is uploaded to the project server.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/io.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
void guestlog(int c) {
asm volatile ("out %%al,%%dx\n" : : "a"(c), "d"(0x504));
}
int main() {
std::string buffer;
// root access required
//
if (iopl(3)) {
if (EPERM == errno) {
printf("vboxmonitor: this application requires root permissions.\n");
printf("vboxmonitor: NOTE: Use setuid to enable use by non-root accounts.\n\n");
}
return 1;
}
while (getline(std::cin, buffer)) {
// 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);
}
// Write 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;
}