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.