Xen users - Jan 2006 - Automate actions

Hi

At my company we frequently perform the following actions when we
receive a submission for a possible virus that needs to be added to
the ClamAV signature DB:

* Upload the file to Windows machine (via a samba share).
* Fire some debuggers/scanners over the file (these are always the same)
* Compile the result of the above action into a report which our virus
researcher examine

Based on the output the researcher may choose to discard the
submission or take a more extensive look on it. Given that these tasks
are essentially the same for every submission (and we do this allot)
it would be nice if they could be automated inside a guest OS (running
inside XEN on Intel VT hardware).

So to my question: is there some way to program the actions (i.e.
mouse clicks/keyboard strokes) inside the guest OS ? this way we could
just fire up a Windows guest for each submission and have it
completely automated.


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Lars Roland

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Lars Roland wrote:
> So to my question: is there some way to program the actions (i.e.
> mouse clicks/keyboard strokes) inside the guest OS ? this way we could
> just fire up a Windows guest for each submission and have it
> completely automated.
There''s at least a couple of solutions out there that are able to
match graphical patterns and perform automated mouse {moves,clicks}
and keyboard interaction over a VNC connection.

One of them is Eggplant:
http://www.redstonesoftware.com/technology.html

It has a scripting language where you can tell it how to react to
various graphical situations, which GUI controls to manipulate, how
long it should wait for various events to occur, etc.

I haven''t tried VT + Xen, so I''m unsure whether a Windows
guest will
be accessible via VNC as is the case for non-VT graphical Xen guests. 
The non-VT case uses a frontend device which acts as a 8514 graphics
adapter, I think.  This probably works with VT too?  I guess if it
doesn''t, you can always install an actual Windows VNC server inside
your guest and be done with it ;-).

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