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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6002] Cannot Live-capture VirtualBox network packets with

Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 04:41:05 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6002

--- Comment #1 from Jaap Keuter <jaap.keuter@xxxxxxxxx> 2011-06-07 13:41:04 CEST ---
I'm not so fond of the use of tail in this matter. Tail, being targeted at text
files, may not push out records when you want to.

A better option would be to use a FIFO, like so:

$ mkfifo /tmp/sharkfin
$ VBoxManage modifyvm "my VM" --nictrace1 on
$ VBoxManage modifyvm "my VM" --nictracefile1 /tmp/sharkfin
$ wireshark -k -i /tmp/sharkfin

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