Added ability to connect to a remote IDA instance

[adrianherrera]

Hi Yan,

Another pull request! This time I've added a new class, remote_idalink, that can be used to connect to a remote machine that is already running the idalink server in IDA Pro. Basically this allows me to use idalink to talk to my Windows IDA install from a Linux machine :-) Because you're already using RPC, there aren't many changes to existing functionality. Changes are:

• Added some new exports to __init__.py
• Made ida_spawn a public function so that it can be invoked on a remote machine. To make this some-what more robust I moved the check of the IDA path into ida_spawn (to make sure this check always occurs)
• Added a new class, remote_idalink, that extends idalink and instead of taking a filename and path to IDA it takes a hostname/IP address and port to connect to. Ideally what I'd like to have is a single class that takes an argument like is_remote=True. The filename and IDA path that you provide get translated on the server (and the file copied across to the remote machine). However I haven't figured out a nice clean way to do this... Yet :-)

Any comments/feedback welcome!

Regards, Adrian

[zardus]

Cool stuff!

I agree that having the file transfer automatic would be cool, but small steps are ok :-).

It'd be really cool to be able to connect to a running, used IDA instance with idalink and "share" it, but I have no idea how it'd work with IDA's threading...