Programmatically detecting host information from inside the guest under Virtual PC and Virtual Server

re: Programmatically detecting host information from inside the guest under Virtual PC and Virtual Server

SvOlli — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 10:59:00 GMT

I'd second that of the Anonymous Coward. The "backdoor" of the VMware has been opened on http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/backdoor.html though I can't tell if that's been done by "leaking" information of reverse engineering. Anyway, it already lead to VMware tools for QNX (http://projects.qnxzone.com/projects/qnx-vmware/).
I'd like to hack a pendant together for VPC, since running QNX in Windows was my main cause for buying VPC, but I'm lacking the reverse engineering skills.

re: Programmatically detecting host information from inside the guest under Virtual PC and Virtual Server

Anonymous Coward — Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:15:00 GMT

So when will Microsoft document the way the additions can talk to the host? I am not on about complicated stuff, but simple things like the information above, or the time. Presumably it is just some sequence of illegal instructions or I/O.

My goal is to be able to write additions for some embedded environments as well as Linux.

re: Programmatically detecting host information from inside the guest under Virtual PC and Virtual Server

Scott Baker — Mon, 24 Jan 2005 23:17:00 GMT

Very nice. People have been asking for this in the NG for ages.

Scott