Please release an "ISO installer" version of GNSVM besides the disk-centric images

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Please release an "ISO installer" version of GNSVM besides the disk-centric images #2348

Closed q2dg closed 4 months ago

q2dg commented 4 months ago

Thanks!

eantowne commented 4 months ago

There are additional methods for installation provided by the development team and listed docs.gns3.com.

However to be more specific in your request:

Are you requesting an .iso for bare metal installation resulting the equivalent of the GNS3 VM, but bare metal? Or something else?

q2dg commented 4 months ago

YES, exactly! That's what I'd like to do: install GNSVM on an exclusive-for-that bare metal machine in order to serve several client systems in a classroom. Thanks!

eantowne commented 4 months ago

I believe the intent from the developers is that if you want to install on bare-metal:

Install Ubuntu server from Ubuntu server .iso
Install GNS3 server via PPA (or pip) https://docs.gns3.com/docs/getting-started/installation/linux
Install docker engine (if desired) https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/
enable service to auto-start GNS3 server process

Profit!

The idea being that the VM is an all-in-one (ish) solution for those on a laptop/desktop. Server install can be customized as to need. This also gives the option of you using a different Linux distro (conceivably) if you so desire. Important to note that the Devs only provide the builds for PPA and pip.

q2dg commented 4 months ago

It's a very reasonable approach. But then, would there be a way to run the (very convenient) ncurses options script? Thanks!

eantowne commented 4 months ago

That is a good question.

I believe that the below link takes you to the script involved. Keep in mind that the script is designed around the VM and not a bare-metal implementation.

https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-vm/blob/master/scripts/welcome.py

Once again, the VM is kind of the all-in-one "easy" solution. The bare-metal implementation assumes you are able to administrate a Linux server.

Another alternative is to run the VM on a Hypervisor like ESXi or Proxmox.

q2dg commented 4 months ago

Ooh, yeah! Thanks, that is what I wanted! So I'll put this script on my bare-metal system with gns3-server installed and I'll modify accordingly to my OS. Thanks a lot. I'll close this issue if you don't mind