[libvirt] [RFC]Libvirt Wireshark Dissector

Hi libvirt developers, I would like to ask you to review the dissector of libvirt RPC protocol which I've been developing on project of Google Summer of Code 2013[1][2][3]. It can add support for dissecting libvirt RPC protocol packet which communicate via TCP socket to Wireshark. This feature was presented by Michal Privoznik year before last[4]. But it did only support dissecting packet headers. This time I enhanced that dissector to support dissecting packet payload. Furthermore, I provide code generator of dissector. So you can get fresh build of dissector from libvirt RPC specification file at any version you like. Now it is available to build and install dissector from repository[3]. Only you need to do is: git clone https://github.com/kawamuray/libvirt-wireshark-dissector.git cd libvirt-wireshark-dissector autoreconf --install ./configure && make sudo make install Above commands only install a single shared object: $(dirname `which wireshark`)/../lib/wireshark/plugins/<wireshark version>/libvirt.so . After rebooting wireshark(or tshark), your wireshark have support for dissecting libvirt RPC packet. Please make sure your libvirtd is listening on port 16509(default libvirtd port) and connect to libvirtd using TCP socket(e.g. qemu+tcp:///system). You can also try the feature; generate dissector from your libvirt source tree by adding few options to ./configure. Please see README and ./configure --help output for more detail. Please try and review it. Any comments, reviews and patches for dissector code, generator code and usability are welcome. Regards. kawamuray [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/kawamuray/7001 [2] http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LibvirtWiresharkDissector [3] https://github.com/kawamuray/libvirt-wireshark-dissector [4] http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2011-October/msg00301.html