Look for eth1 which corresponds to VIrtualBox Adapter 2 ( eth0 is for the adb connection over VirtualBox Adapter 1).We are talking about mobile applications so there's a high probability that you will be using cordova plugins (and the app that I'm currently working on uses several).

Once you restart the VM (from the Genymotion Launcher), you can find out what address it's been assigned with adb shell ifconfig from the host. If your local LAN uses DHCP (likely), this will allow the VM to get it's own IP which you can then filter on in Wireshark. If this causes a problem, shut down your VM, open VirtualBox directly (i.e., no Genymotion launcher), change Adapter 2 to 'Bridged Adapter', and select the current active host adapter in the VM's network configuration. Unfortunately, when the VM is NATed, your VM traffic will have the same IP as your host, making it difficult to filter. If you want to see how your VM is interacting with the local network or Internet, capture against your host's main network adapter. If you want to examine how your dev tools are communicating with your VM, capture on vboxnet0 (or equivalent).Īdapter 2 is normally NATed to your host's network connection, usually something like eth0 or wlan0 on Ubuntu. When you do adb shell you are also connecting over this network. For example, this is how Eclipse ADT and Android Studio are able to communicate with the VM for installing APKs, etc. This connection is used by the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to connect development tools with the VM. The host machine is 192.168.56.1 and the VM usually ends up getting 192.168.56.101 from VirtualBox's built-in DHCP server. In the default Ubuntu setup, this is the 192.168.56.0 network. However, the concepts are identical.Īdapter 1, usually vboxnet0 if you're on Ubuntu, is a host-only adapter used to support local interactions between the host and the VM. Also, some of the details (adapter names, etc.) depend on what OS you're using. Which one you should capture on depends on what you're looking for. Genymotion VMs have two network adapters in the underlying VirtualBox configuration.

Using wireshark android emulator