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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Does wireshark works under VMWare?

From: "Alan Jay Weiner" <a.weiner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:40:38 -0400

Hi Pedro,

I do all my development in VMware Workstation, and run Wireshark almost constantly.  I’ve used it with virtual NICs and with USB NICs plugged into the host (bridged to the VM) and USB NICs plugged into the VM directly.

Also WinXP SP2, by the way.

 

I’ll sometimes have two Wiresharks running, capturing different NICs  (e.g., on both sides of a firewall).

 

What do you see if you do IPCONFIG /all in a command window, and what do you see in Wireshark’s Capture | Interfaces menu?  (that’s the only annoyance I’ve seen with Wireshark on VMware - all the NICs are described the same way as “VMware Accelerated AMD PCNet Adapter (Microsoft’s Packet Scheduler)”  - just go by the IP address column to select which NIC you want, or press the Details button - that will show the MAC address amongst other information.

 

- Al -

 

 

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From: wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pedro Drimel
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 12:07 PM
To: wireshark-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Wireshark-users] Does wireshark works under VMWare?

 

Hello all,

I tried to run wireshark on two windows xp professional SP 2 guest machines on a vmware server and wireshark open up and close without any prompt, error message, etc.

I did not find any documentation on the website stating if wireshark has any issue to work under vmware.

Any advice on this issue? At least get the error message, etc. Does anyone run wireshark under vmware?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Pedro.