NAME

       vusb-analyzer - tool for visualizing logs of USB packets

SYNOPSIS

       vusb-analyzer [OPTIONS] LOGFILE [LOGFILE...]

DESCRIPTION

       The  Virtual  USB  Analyzer  is tool for visualizing logs of USB packets, from hardware or
       software  USB  sniffer  tools.  It's  the  world's  first  tool  to  provide  a  graphical
       visualization along with raw hex dumps and high-level protocol analysis.

       The Virtual USB Analyzer is not itself a USB sniffer tool. It is just a user interface for
       visualizing logs. It currently supports two log formats, but it's designed  to  be  easily
       extensible.  With  a  couple  hundred  lines  of Python code, you can add support for your
       favorite log format.

       The Virtual USB Analyzer was developed at VMware as an efficient way to  debug  their  own
       USB  virtualization  stack.  They  wanted  a  tool  that made it easy to see problems at a
       glance, and they wanted a way to solve both correctness and performance bugs. As a result,
       they  ended  up  with what they think is a fairly unique tool. They're excited to have the
       opportunity to release this tool as open source software.

       Supported Log Formats

       * Logged USB traffic from debug builds of VMware Fusion, Workstation, or Player.  See  the
       tutorial for information on capturing such a log.

       * XML logs from the Ellisys USB Explorer 200, a hardware USB 2.0 analyzer.

       Features

       * Unique graphical timeline view.

       * Side-by-side diff mode: visually compare two log files.

       * Pluggable log format modules: VMware, Ellisys.

       * Pluggable protocol decoders: USB Chapter 9, Bluetooth, Storage, Cypress FX2.

       * Packet metrics and filtering tools.

       * Whole-bus analysis: analyze multiple devices concurrently.

       * Written in Python, with a GTK+ user interface.

       * Automatic "tail -f" mode: follow log files as they grow.

       * Loads large log files in the background. You can start browsing before the whole file is
       loaded into memory.

       * Automatic decompression of gzipped log files.

OPTIONS

       -t  Tail mode, start from the end of a growing log file.

HOMEPAGE

       More information about vusb-analyzer, including a tutorial and sample logs, can  be  found
       at <http://vusb-analyzer.sourceforge.net/>.

AUTHOR

       vusb-analyzer Micah Dowty <micah@vmware.com>.

       This manual page was written by Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>, for the Debian project
       (but may be used by others).