Testing shows that `D3DKMTSetProcessSchedulingPriorityClass` has a
positive performance impact for NvFBC as well as DXGI, as such always
try to boost the priority for the windows host.
People often miss the warnings about invalid arguments in their command
line, this last minute patch attempts to address this by making
warnings, errors, fixme's and fatal errors stand out if stdout is a TTY.
One of the most common issues reported in the support channels is the
IVSHMEM size being too small. This change adds a calculation to
determine an optimal size and uses the new `os_showMessage` platform
method to display a message box to the user with the error.
Instead of converting every SID to string with ConvertSidToStringSidA
and compare it with the magical SID string for local system with strcmp,
we could instead create the local system SID and compare directly with
EqualSid.
We don't actually have any handles that should be inherited, so specifying
TRUE for bInheritHandles to CreateProcessAsUserA is pointless.
Furthermore, according to MSDN, "[y]ou cannot inherit handles across
sessions," and we are spawning the host in a different session, so this
is even more pointless.
Instead of doing ShellExecute from the service, we instead get the token
of the currently logged in user, and do CreateProcessAsUserA to run
notepad with that token. This should be safe.
Also for failure to parse command line. For these errors, restarting
with exponential backoff will not help: no amount of restarting the
service could possibly make the ivshmem device exist or larger, so
we shouldn't try.
Certain users of Radeon cards have observed that the host fails to start
at boot, with D3D11CreateDevice failing with HSTATUS 0x887a0004, which
translates to "The specified device interface or feature level is not
supported on this system."
This failure results in a LG_HOST_EXIT_FAILED exit code, which the service
does not attempt to restart. The user has to manually restart the service
for the host application to work.
These users reported that the host application started fine on
B2. This strongly suggests that the fix to enable capturing the login
screen made the host application start too early during the boot process,
and the graphics driver did not have time to initialize fully.
This PR allows the service to retry a few times on LG_HOST_EXIT_FAILED,
with exponential backoff, before giving up. This should cover this bug
and other similar bugs related to the early initialization which I do not
have logs for.
This will allow us to add an option to disable the screensaver on the client
when an application in the guest requests it. This behaviour may be useful
when the guest is doing media playback.
Instead of using %windir%\Temp, which is not accessible by default and
contains a lot of unrelated files, as the location for our log files,
this commit moves it to %ProgramData%\Looking Glass (host), which will
be a dedicated directory just for the LG host log files. This applies
to both the host application logs and the service logs.
Also, we now switched to using PathCombineA from shlwapi.dll instead
of using snprintf, which greatly simplifies the code. PathCombineA
guarantees that the path would not overflow a buffer of MAX_PATH.
Before this commit, the NvFBC backend only generated the first cursor
position update when the mouse moves. Therefore, if the user does
not move the mouse, the cursor will be shown at (0, 0), which is not
ideal.
This commit changes this behaviour to unconditionally generate a
cursor update when the mouse hook initializes.
Before this change, the log is buffered, so if the host application exits
for any reason, it usually would not show up in the log file immediately,
and the service has to be restarted for the logs to be flushed.
This commit disables the buffering so that any log entries shows up
immediately.
NvFBC is unable to capture certain applications that bypasses the DWM
compositor, for example, Firefox playing video in full screen. This
has been a known issue for a long time with Nvidia's ShadowPlay, see:
* https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/geforce-experience/14/233709/
* https://crbug.com/609857
Nvidia won't fix this, but there are workarounds. For example, we
create a transparent 1x1 layered window, which forces desktop composition
to be enabled.
Note that SetLayeredWindowAttributes also supports alpha-based transparency,
but setting transparency to 0 will cause DWM to skip composition. We could
use a transparency of 1, but this ruins the image by the slightest bit,
which is unacceptable. Therefore, we must use chroma key-based
transparency, which tricks DWM into compositing despite being fully
transparent.
Basically, this creates a separate thread for the mouse events, and this
thread detects that the desktop has changed (say to the secure desktop),
and unhooks, switches to the new desktop, and then rehooks.
This allows the cursor location to be updated while using NvFBC on secure
desktop and the login screen.
WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId will return a session even if it's not logged in,
unlike our old GetInteractiveSessionID function. Launching looking glass on
such a console session will allow the login screen to be captured.
Note that WTSGetActiveConsoleSessionId() will return 0xFFFFFFFF if there are
no sessions attached.
To quote MSDN documentation:
> The lpApplicationName parameter can be NULL, in which case the executable
> name must be the first white space–delimited string in lpCommandLine. If
> the executable or path name has a space in it, there is a risk that a
> different executable could be run because of the way the function parses
> spaces. The following example is dangerous because the function will
> attempt to run "Program.exe", if it exists, instead of "MyApp.exe".
>
> LPTSTR szCmdline[] = _tcsdup(TEXT("C:\\Program Files\\MyApp"));
> CreateProcessAsUser(hToken, NULL, szCmdline, /*...*/ );
>
> If a malicious user were to create an application called "Program.exe" on
> a system, any program that incorrectly calls CreateProcessAsUser using the
> Program Files directory will run this application instead of the intended
> application.
>
> To avoid this problem, do not pass NULL for lpApplicationName.
So instead, we pass the executable to lpApplicationName instead, which avoids
the issue. MSDN says:
> The lpCommandLine parameter can be NULL. In that case, the function uses
> the string pointed to by lpApplicationName as the command line.
This also avoids the strdup since lpApplicationName is LPCSTR unlike
lpCommandLine which is LPSTR.
It shouldn't have any effect, since the host application is created with
the token, and there is no need for the service itself to impersonate.
In practice, removal doesn't appear to have any effect on the ability to
capture privileged things like secure desktop.
Use the process handle returned by CreateProcessAsUserA to wait on the
process. This results in faster response times and less polling.
For example, it now restarts instantly when UAC is activated.
This also removes the call to OpenProcess and rendering the mutex unnecessary.
As a bonus, it should fix#298.
The host process will be changed to return these codes, from which the
service process could decide whether to exit or restart the process and log.
Note that on Windows, return values are 32-bit unlike POSIX which is only 8.
This makes it a compile-time error to call a function that semantically
takes no parameters with a nonzero number of arguments.
Previously, such code would still compile, but risk blowing up the stack
if a compiler chose to use something other than caller-cleanup calling
conventions.
Now that it's recommended to run LG as the `SYSTEM` user, launching an
application to read the log file is dangerous as it will be launched
with the same access rights (`SYSTEM`). Instead so as Microsoft
recommends and only present a message box with the information.
Experimental, use at your own peril!
This commit adds the ability for the LG host to install and launch with
Windows as a system service.
To install simply run `looking-glass-host.exe InstallService` or
conversely to uninstall `looking-glass-host.exe UninstallService`.
