#!/usr/bin/perl use IO::Socket; $vm = shift; $log = shift; # start virtualbox gui in minimized mode - this should be the first thing we do since this process # inherits all handles and we want our sockets/log file closed system("start /min virtualbox --startvm $vm"); # start a server; vm will connect to the server via autotest-remote-host.pl my $server = new IO::Socket::INET(LocalPort => 7183, Listen => 1); die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $server; open LOG, ">> $log" || die "Could not open log file: $!\n"; print LOG "Listening for connection...\n"; my $client = $server->accept(); # echo all input to log file print LOG $_ while (<$client>); close LOG; $client->close(); $server->close();