Hi Michal, Thank you for your suggestion. My apologies that I took sometime to get back on further confirmation. Regrettably, my tshark is still unable to find libvirt payload inside packet capture, though it lists libvirt as a possible filter. # rpm -ql libvirt-wireshark-1.2.9.3-2.fc21.x86_64 /usr/lib64/wireshark/plugins/1.12.5/libvirt.so As I used wireshark 1.12.6 version, I created 1.12.6 directory under plugins and copied above .so. /usr/lib64/wireshark/plugins/1.12.6/libvirt.so # tshark -G protocols | grep -i libvirt Libvirt libvirt libvirt # tshark -r libvirt.pcap libvirt # Are there any dependency between libvirt and wireshark dissector mechanism to co-exist and work together (ie. whether the above libvirt-wireshark missing some changes that dissector expecting ??). If you have sample pcap to recheck my wireshark/tshark, could you please share with me ? Regards, Gowrishankar On Thursday 29 October 2015 06:18 PM, Michal Privoznik wrote:
On 26.10.2015 11:38, gowrishankar wrote:
Hi, I am trying libvirt plugin in wireshark to dissect RPC payload in TCP, but finding dissector code not really working.
My env is Fedora core 21 (x86_64) and installed packages are as follow:
wireshark-1.12.6-1.fc21.x86_64 libvirt-wireshark-1.2.9.3-2.fc21.x86_64
Earlier, just after installation, I noticed libvirt.so available only in /usr/lib64/wireshark/plugins/1.12.5/ . Wireshark could not load libvirt plugin. Yes, this is inherently broken. See my patch that I've just proposed:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-October/msg00852.html
So, I copied above .so into 1.12.6/ under same plugins folder, following it wireshark could list libvirt as supported protocol.
tshark -G protocols | grep libvirt Libvirt libvirt libvirt
However, on checking with some pcaps which has libvirt RPC calls captured on wire, wireshark does not list libvirt RPC packets, as I search for "libvirt" protocol in pcap. What is the command you're trying? Because if I copy the plugin over to the correct directory it seems to be working for me.
Have anyone experienced this before or if you have any pointer that I could check in my env, that would be very helpful.
Michal