From: Harvie <tomas@mudrunka.cz>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 06:36:34 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Added automagic tool to acces virtualbox machines with serial console using minicom
X-Git-Url: https://git.harvie.cz/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f763f5aec10dca479fa371cd77ef5a4d40a8337;p=mirrors%2FPrograms.git

Added automagic tool to acces virtualbox machines with serial console using minicom
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diff --git a/bash/virtualbox-shell.sh b/bash/virtualbox-shell.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..cc082c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bash/virtualbox-shell.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+dialog=$(which dialog);
+
+get_vbox_pipes() {
+	grep 'hostMode="HostPipe"' ~/.VirtualBox/Machines/*/*.xml | sed -e 's/.*path="\([^"]*\)".*/\1/g' | while read i; do
+  	for prefix in '' "$HOME/" "$HOME/.VirtualBox/"; do
+    	socket="$prefix""$i"
+    	test -S "$socket" && {
+	      echo "$socket";
+   		}
+  	done;
+	done;
+}
+
+tmp="$(mktemp)";
+get_vbox_pipes | while read socket; do
+	echo -n "$socket"; echo -ne '\0';
+	echo -n "${socket##*/}"; echo -ne '\0';
+done | xargs -0 "$dialog" --no-shadow --trim --title 'Sockets' --backtitle 'VirtualBox serial terminal' --menu -- "Select the socket" 0 0 0 2>"$tmp" || {
+	echo 'ERROR: No vbox sockets found or selected. :-( Bye.';
+	exit 1;
+}
+socket="$(cat "$tmp")";
+rm -f "$tmp";
+
+minicom -c on -o -D unix#"$socket";