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Wireshark cannot see traffic from a VirtualBox guest on Windows 7

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Mar 15, 202660658 views
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I have been trying to use Wireshark to capture some traffic that comes from a virtual machine. The setup is: Windows 7 host Ubuntu guest VirtualBox 4 I send some packets from the guest to the host or another IP in the host LAN. The packets get there, but Wireshark cannot see them. I have run Wiresh…

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Fix for: Wireshark cannot see traffic from a VirtualBox guest on Windows 7

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When guest OS is set up, a network interface is assigned to it. Is wireshark listening on that interface? In linux, there is an option to use "any" interface, which listens on all possible network interfaces, but I don't know if such option exists o…

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