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Super slick commands for virutalbox machine management

Start / Stop a pcap at the VM level for a guest machine. (not having to route traffic through another box to capture; works in NAT)

  • Start pcap
    • vboxmanage controlvm "vm_name_here" nictrace1 on
  • Stop pcap
    • vboxmanage controlvm "vm_name_here" nictrace1 off

A file VBox-<5_hex_digits>.pcap will be created. don't know the significance of the digits. They don't seem to be the mac

Saving to a specific file via nictracefile1 some.pcap isnt't working on my machine (kubuntu 20.10 vbox 6.1.18r142142 on 02MAY21)

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