[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] VBoxSuspend suggestion

[Marshall Flax]

(My apologies if this is an inappropriate way to suggest an enhancement to
the packaging of Virtualbox, but it's got to be more appropriate than
directly writing to debfx-pkg before I saw that this list existed!)

Currently, I'm experiencing a security problem with VirtualBox in
FullScreen mode: since it does a XGrabKeyboard, the xscreensaver's attempt
to a XGrabKeyboard fails with an "AlreadyGrabbed" and I end up coming back
from suspend mode without any screen locking at all. Since I usually lock
my screen by shutting my Thinkpad's lid and thereby forcing suspend mode,
I've created the following two scripts. I think this makes some sense since
it's not unreasonable for VMs to be suspended when the host itself is
suspended.  And pausing a VM always does an XUngrabKeyboard, solving my
original problem.  What do you think ... would this be generally useful?

Many thanks!

Marshall Flax

$ cat /usr/local/bin/VBoxSuspend
#! /bin/sh
VBoxManage list runningvms | perl -ne '(my $vm) = ($_ =~ m/{(.+)}/);
system("VBoxManage controlvm $vm pause")'

$ cat /etc/pm/sleep.d/virtualbox_suspend
#! /bin/sh
case $1 in
   suspend|suspend_hybrid|hibernate)
      for i in `ps h -o user -C VirtualBox | sort | uniq`
        do sudo -u $i /usr/local/bin/VBoxSuspend ;
      done;
      ;;
   resume|thaw)
      # No need to do anything here, we'll manuall unpause VMs as necessary
      ;;
esac
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