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mjdorma/pyvbox: Register for decoded keystrokes.py

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pyvbox: Register for decoded keystrokes.py
"""pyvbox: Register for decoded keystrokes
The following code will print key press events from the guest
VM to the host's stdout.
"""
import sys
import virtualbox
vbox = virtualbox.VirtualBox()
m = vbox.find_machine("win7")
s = m.create_session()
def callback(state, key):
if state == 1 and len(key) == 1:
sys.stdout.write(key)
sys.stdout.flush()
s.console.keyboard.register_key_callback(callback)
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