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1. Introduction
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Vagrant is a virtual machine management program that makes it trivial to build
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and configure reproducible virtual machines. Wireshark's source code includes
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a Vagrantfile which can be used to set up a complete Ubuntu development
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environment in a virtual machine, including all necessary compilers, dependent
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libraries, and tools like valgrind.
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Using vagrant can greatly simplify the creation of a Linux build environment
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for new developers, at the cost of running your builds in a virtual machine,
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thus with reduced performance.
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2. Installation
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The Vagrantfile included in Wireshark's source directory is configured to use
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VirtualBox as the backing virtual machine technology provider. You must first
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install VirtualBox from https://www.virtualbox.org/.
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Now install vagrant itself from https://www.vagrantup.com/.
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Please note that vagrant is a CLI command and should typically be installed in
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your host system's $PATH. To better understand what vagrant is doing you may
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want to review vagrant's `Getting Started` web pages.
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3. Setup
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By default vagrant looks for the file name Vagrantfile in the current
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directory. Wireshark's Vagrantfile is located in the root of the Wireshark
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source folder.
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Once both VirtualBox and vagrant are installed, setting up an Ubuntu Wireshark
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development VM is as simple as running `vagrant up` followed by
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`vagrant provision`.
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The first time that the `vagrant up` command is executed vagrant will initiate
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the download of a specific Ubuntu VM image (what they call a box) from
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HashiCorp's Atlas box catalog. Once the box is downloaded an Unbuntu VM will
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be instantiated and powered-on.
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Use the command `vagrant status` to determine the state of the VM.
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The command `vagrant provision` will run any provisioning tasks defined in the
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Vagrantfile. Wireshark's Vagrantfile is configured to run two bash based
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provisioning scripts, vagrant_provision.sh and vagrant_build.sh. These
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provisoning scripts are executed on the Ubuntu VM system and not on the host
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system.
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The vagrant_provision.sh script initiates several apt-get tasks to get the
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Ubuntu VM reasonably up to date. The vagrant_build.sh script sets up a cmake
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build environment which includes creating a ~/build folder initialized for an
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out-of-tree cmake build and then triggering a build.
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4. Usage
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Running `vagrant ssh` from the wireshark source directory will log you into
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Ubuntu VM as the userid vagrant.
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The Ubuntu VM's build folder is located in ~/build. The Ubuntu VM's source
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folder is actually the source folder from the host system mounted as /vagrant.
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Any changes made in the VM's /vagrant folder are reflected in the host system's
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Wireshark source folder and visa-versa.
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Once logged into the VM issue the command `cd ~/build` followed by `make` to
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trigger a new wireshark build based on whatever is in your host system's source
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tree (the Ubuntu VM's /vagrant folder).
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The various Wireshark applications can be run from the ~/build folder of the
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Ubuntu VM with commands such as `./run/wireshark`, `./run/tshark`, etc.
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To run the Wireshark GUI you will typically need an X server. If you are using
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macOS (OS X) as the host system then you would likely use XQuartz as your X
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server. XQuartz can be downloaded from https://www.xquartz.org/.
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The Ubuntu VM can be shutdown or suspended from the host system with the
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commands `vagrant halt` and `vagrant suspend` repectively. In either case the
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Ubuntu VM can be brought back up with the command `vagrant up`.
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