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FOR DEVELOPMENT ONLY GO TO GNS3.COM FOR THE VM WITH GNS3 INCLUDED

Home Page: http://www.gns3.com

License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Shell 28.31% Python 17.05% C 54.64%

vmware qemu virtualbox virtualization

gns3-vm's Introduction

FOR DEVELOPMENT ONLY

Go to http://www.gns3.com if you are looking for the GNS3 VM. Otherwise GNS3 will not be included in the VM.

GNS3 VM

Build a GNS3 Virtual Machine

Support Qemu, dynamips, VPCS, IOU and Docker
It's based on a ubuntu-server LTS 14.04 64 bits
Support GNS3 update without losing your data
No need to release a new VM when a new release is out
By default you can use it in gns3 and access to the internet
The VM as Nat and HostOnly adapter
sudo is allowed without password
Default account: gns3 / gns3
A graphical interface allow gns3 management
GNS3 data are installed in /opt on a seperate disk
An optional eth2 is configured allowing user to add a bridge interface
A vde interface qemu0 for accessing to natted network from qemu

Building

You need to install packer before.

VirtualBox

Run:

./virtualbox.sh

This step will build the base VM as an OVA without install gns3 on it.

If you want to install GNS3 you need to unzip the OVA and run:

./release_virtualbox.sh 1.4.0 GNS3\ VM.ova

VMware

Run:

./vmware.sh

For exporting to OVA you need to install: https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OVFTOOL400&productId=353

This step will build the base VM as an OVA without install gns3 on it.

If you want to install GNS3 you need to unzip the OVA and run:

./release_vmware.sh 1.4.0 GNS3\ VM.ova

Upload to ESXi

ovftool --allowAllExtraConfig -dm=thin  -ds=datastore1 "GNS3 VM.ova" "vi://root:PASSWORD@HOST"

Tools

ova.py

Show content of an ova file

workstation_to_esxi.py

Convert the ova from vmware workstation to esxi

last_vm_version.py

Get last vm version on Github

push_config_to_vm.sh

Sync local configuration via SSH to a VM. Use for testing modifications.

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gns3-vm's Issues

Build the VM and after add GNS3

For speed up the build process and avoid problems we need to build a VM release in two steps.

Step 1 build the base VM without GNS3
Step 2 build the VM by adding GNS3

This will speedup the release process because we just need to add GNS3 and will avoid the need to debug the VM build for a minor release (I just lost a lot time due to an ubuntu mirror close from home out of sync...).

Problem when changing version to unstable

I couldn't change the GNS3 server to unstable in the VM. I had to use sudo to give me the right on the gns3_release file.

Allow a third network interface

Some users want to add a bridge interface. It's fine but by default GNS3 support only two interfaces in the /etc/network/interfaces file.

Upgrade Qemu to 2.4.0

The current version (2.0.0) is too old to run some appliances.

Add a custom splask screen

OVA should be importable in ESXi

Switch to unstable raise an error

Use ubuntu 14.04.3 as base image

This will speedup the build and upgrade.

Splash screen should include "VM".

The splash screen should explicitly show this is the GNS3 VM. This is a bit of artwork ;)

Add an additionnal disk to VMWare

Install VMWare tools

A network card is missing on Vbox

Projects and images not saved in /opt

A default server configuration should be created because currently projects and images are not saved in /opt.

Remove old OVA

In order to not abuse from Github ressources

The GNS3 server version should be clearly visible

For instance, top left could be GNS3 version 1.4 in the VM menu.

We have noise on the console

Due to the removal of rsyslog sometimes the system output on the console

Change "update" to "upgrade"?

In the VM menu.

The ova for VirtualBox is not compressed

Blocked upgrade

I got stuck there when trying to upgrade the VM. Impossible to answer or exit.

Check if user as access to internet

Crash at first startup

Blackscreen at vm startup on VirtualBox

VMware build fails

Using packer 0.8.2: packer build -only=vmware-iso gns3.json

    vmware-iso: Cleaning up...
    vmware-iso: /tmp/script_7943.sh: line 150: syntax error near unexpected token `fi'
==> vmware-iso: Stopping virtual machine...
==> vmware-iso: Deleting output directory...
Build 'vmware-iso' errored: Script exited with non-zero exit status: 2

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> vmware-iso: Script exited with non-zero exit status: 2

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

The VMware OVA is too big

Now it's 850mb...

ovftool strips VT-x option

The virtualize VT-x option is not enabled when I import GNS3 VM.ova into VMware. It seems that ovftool strips the vhv.enable (VT-x virtualization) setting.

Install docker by default

Update VPCS to 0.6.1

No way to go back to the information

Once you are on the main menu (Update, shell, version etc.) there is no way to display the information with the IP address, log in user/password etc.

The Final VirtualBox VM has no http service

http service is not active or running or missing

Display the first IP instead of the second one

Show log in the VM

Add an entry in the menu in order to display server logs

Change keyboard layout doesn't work

Tested only on vmware

Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported.

Enable or not KVM in GNS3 depending of the VM support

Reboot loop

i am having trouble running the vm in my virtualbox.It just keep rebooting.what do i do?

VMware build fails with packer 0.8.1

 ~/Downloads/packer_0.8.1_linux_amd64/packer build -only=vmware-iso gns3.json
vmware-iso output will be in this color.

==> vmware-iso: Downloading or copying ISO
    vmware-iso: Downloading or copying: http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.2-server-amd64.iso
==> vmware-iso: Creating virtual machine disk
==> vmware-iso: Creating additional hard drives...
==> vmware-iso: Building and writing VMX file
==> vmware-iso: Starting HTTP server on port 8741
==> vmware-iso: Starting virtual machine...
==> vmware-iso: Waiting 15s for boot...
==> vmware-iso: Connecting to VM via VNC
==> vmware-iso: Error detecting host IP: exit status 1
==> vmware-iso: Stopping virtual machine...
==> vmware-iso: Deleting output directory...
Build 'vmware-iso' errored: Error detecting host IP: exit status 1

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> vmware-iso: Error detecting host IP: exit status 1

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

The final VMware VM has no hostonly interface

The interface has been change to NAT somewhere

The VM doesn't start in testing mode the first time

The 0.4 VM is too big

If you build the 0.4 tag you will get a big big VM:

Move the initial GNS3 install to a remote script

Actually the install setup a gns3-server via pip at startup. But for the alpha process we need to install a preversion via pip and put the VM in testing mode for upgrade.

The easiest way to do it is to move the script in the git and execute it from this location at startup.

Sometimes the /opt is not mounted during the first build

Two small (potential) bugs

As I'm using linux, I don't need this GNS3 VM. But as I'm interesting how you make this VM I had a look at it. I think I found two small bugs in it:

http/preseed.cfg:
line 36: shouldn't it be fdisk /dev/sdb instead of /dev/sdb1 ?

scripts/provision.sh:
missing setcap for dynamips and iouyap