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GNS3 Graphical Network Simulator
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Rename IOU implementation to IOL #1298

Closed grossmj closed 7 years ago

grossmj commented 8 years ago

For consistency with other projects like Unetlab and VIRL we should also use the IOL (IOS on LInux) name instead of IOU (IOS on UNIX).

julien-duponchelle commented 8 years ago

Perhaps we should wait the release of IOL for VIRL.

Because it's possible that the support for IOL from VIRL will be totally different of current IOU. And we will need to avoid confusion when using it.

grossmj commented 8 years ago

Indeed, this can wait.

gcasella commented 8 years ago

@noplay & @grossmj From what I know with IOL from VIRL is that it would run in an LXC Container -- I'm not sure how it would work in terms of GNS3 supporting Docker (Don't have too much experience with LXC)

Wonder if there would be a way to get it integrated someway, i'm sure there's a way to get LXC Containers to run in Docker.

I'm sure like any of the other images on Cisco VIRL you would be able to export them to use within GNS3.

taurus8 commented 8 years ago

How about old IOL/IOU images ? will old images be supported ?

taurus8 commented 8 years ago

In Updated section from this https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-30952

"there is no 'serial console' present on the IOL instance. A maximum of 16 Ethernet interfaces are provided."

but old IOU images supports serial interfaces

julien-duponchelle commented 8 years ago

Until we can't test we can't know what we will do.

I'm pretty sure we will keep the current IOU support for the moment and have a different way to load IOL (if we are lucky could be a part of the docker support).

A tricky part will be to avoid confusion between the old IOU and the new IOL.

After that we will need to have reflexion because current IOU images work with specific version of libs, a system upgrade could broke them one day. If ubuntu stop 32 bit support we will need to find solutions.

julien-duponchelle commented 8 years ago

VIRL has announced that they have no release date for IOL due to unexpected internal process requirements (translation someone probably block the release inside Cisco).

grossmj commented 7 years ago

I think this is unnecessary now.