/windows-container

A lightweight sandbox for Windows application

Primary LanguageC++BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" LicenseBSD-3-Clause

Windows Container

This project provides a lightweight sandbox for Windows.

Build Instructions

Use Visual Studio 2015.

To build the python binding, set the PYTHON_INCLUDE and PYTHON_LIB environment variable to the include and libs directory of a python installation in your system. The build configuration needs to match the python installation (Debug/Release, 32/64bit). Both python 2 and 3 are supported.

Use setup.py

For python 3.5+, use python setup.py build to build and python setup.py install to install

Python Binding

Example: launch cmd in a container.

import winc
container = winc.Container()
target = container.spawn(u'C:\\Windows\\system32\\cmd.exe')
target.start().wait_for_process()

Try whoami in the launched cmd, should get ERROR: Access is denied..

You may enable the current user's identity and try again.

container.add_restricted_sid(container.logon.user_sid)

Supported Operating Systems

The following versions of operating systems are supported:

  • Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10
  • Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2016