Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Does wireshark works under VMWare?
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:36:23 -0700
Pedro Drimel wrote:
> 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?

Assuming you installed in c:\Program Files, what happens when you run

    c:\Program Files\Wireshark\tshark -D

or

    c:\Program Files\Wireshark\tshark

There are issues with VM environments that might affect how packets come
in (the fact that you have a virtual NIC connected to a virtual switch
can result in all sorts of "interesting" behavior) but Wireshark itself
should be able to at least run. FWIW our automated build system runs
Wireshark and TShark captures on an XP VMWare guest without any problems.