Arista vEOS on GNS3

EOS (Extensible Operating System) is Linux-based network operating system developed by Arista Networks that runs on all Arista switches. Virtual EOS (vEOS) is single image and can be run in a virtual machine. The article describes how to set up vEOS virtual machine and connects it to GNS3 in order to test EOS functionality.

Host Requirements
Linux x86-64
Qemu or VirtualBox installed

Virtual Machine Requirements
1024 MB RAM
IDE CD-ROM drive with mounted Aboot-veos-serial-2.0.8.iso
2GB flash IDE disk - vEOS-4.14.2F.vmdk
NICs e1000 type

1. Download Bootloader and Virtual EOS

Clik the link to create a new account. The guest account (when no corporate email is used for registration e.g. gmail.com) is sufficient to download vEOS software. Click the link and login with the credentials you entered during the registration. You have to accept License Agreement in order to download vEOS software.

Download the bootloader and a virtual disk:

Aboot-veos-serial-2.0.8.iso
vEOS-4.14.2F.vmdk

2. Arista Switch First Boot on Qemu

Use Qemu to boot Arista switch virtual machine for the first time.

$ /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -enable-kvm -cdrom ./Aboot-veos-serial-2.0.8.iso -boot d vEOS-4.14.2F.vmdk -serial telnet::3355,server,nowait

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GNS3 on Fedora Linux

Here are mu notes about installation GNS3 version on Fedora Linux. It shows the basic steps required to successfully install and configure GNS3 for VirtualBox, Qemu, IOU, and Dynamips support. Configuration of individual VirtualBox, Qemu, IOU and IOS images is not discussed.

1. GNS3 GUI and Server Installation and Configuration

1.1 Install Dependencies

$ sudo yum install python3 python3-setuptools.noarch python3-PyQt4 python3-devel gcc

1.2 Download and Extract GNS3 GUI and Server

$ git clone https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-gui.git
$ git clone https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-server.git

$ cd gns3-gui/
$ sudo python3 setup.py install
$ cd ..

$ cd gns3-server/
$ sudo python3 setup.py install

1.3 Configure GNS3 Server Settings

Navigate to Edit-> Preferences-> GNS3 server-> Local server and change path to gns3server.

2. IOU Installation and Configuration

IOU stands for IOS on Unix. IOU images are IOS images that are compiled for x86 / Sparc CPU architecture.

2.1 Install Dependencies

$ sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ git

2.2 Create Symbolic Link and Prevent IOU to Call Home

$ cd /usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s ./libcrypto.so.10 libcrypto.so.4
$ su -c "echo '127.0.0.127 xml.cisco.com' >> /etc/hosts"

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HP VSR1001 Virtual Services Router on GNS3

HP VSR  is a Comware 7 router software application for a server which provides the same functionality as a physical router. Installed on either VMware or KVM virtual machine it offers routing, Firewall, IPSec, and MPLS VPN security services.

The tutorial gives you some ideas how to install HP VSR1000 (Virtual Service Router) running Comware 7 OS on Qemu disk and connects Qemu appliance  to GNS3.

They are HP VSR1001, VSR1004 and VSR1008 models available for download. Differences between models are explained here.  As the VSR1001 model has the lowest RAM requirements comparing to other models and we do not have to concern the forwarding performance,  VSR 1001 demo ISO image is our choice. The demo is  full featured, performance limited and requiring no license and with no expiration date.

HP VSR1001 Minimum Hardware Requirements

• CPU: 2.0 GHz
• Memory: 1 GB
• Disk space: 8 GB
• Network interfaces: 2 virtual NICs, E1000 and VirtIO virtual NICs are recommended, maximum 16 NICs supported

1. Download HP VSR1001 Virtual Services Router

Navigate to the Download page here

Picture 1 - HP VSR1001 Virtual Services Router Download Page

Click on the button >> on he right, beside the padlock icon. Either sign in with your HP Passport account or Continue reading

How to run Juniper Firefly Perimeter vSRX on GNS3

Firefly Perimeter is a virtual security appliance that provides security and networking services at the perimeter in virtualized private or public cloud environments. It runs as a virtual machine (VM) on a standard x86 server  and delivers similar security and networking features available on branch SRX Series devices.

However not all the features that are supported by SRX hardware devices are supported. Here is the list of features supported by current firefly 12.1x46-d10 release.

Firefly Perimeter Hardware Specifications

• Memory 2 GB
• Disk space 2 GB
• vCPUs 2
• vNICs Up to 10
• Virtual Network Interface Card type (NIC) E1000

Thanks to Juniper’s software evaluation program we can download the Firefly Perimeter security solution for free and test it out for 60 days. In this tutorial we are going to connect Firefly Perimeter to GNS3 and create a simple lab to test connectivity between two vSRX instances. As GNS3 has built-in support for VirtualBox and Qemu/KVM they both can used as hypervisor.

Firefly Perimeter virtual machines can be download here. You have to use your Juniper account to proceed the download but a valid service contract is not required to to download Firefly Perimeter virtual machine.

Picture 1 - Juniper Login Window

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Cisco Virtual IOS on GNS3

The tutorial discuss the use of  GNS3 software to run Cisco Virtual IOS (vIOS). Cisco vIOS is  shipped and supported as a part of the Cisco's One Platform Kit (onePK) that is distributed in form of virtual machine. It might be downloaded with Cisco.com account. Currently, it is not required to have Cisco account associated with service contracts, Bill-to IDs, or product serial numbers in order to download onePK.

Software Prerequisites

• Host OS - any 64 bit Linux OS
• Qemu emulator and virtualizer compiled with x86_64 support
• KVM
• GNS3 0.8.7 - the last version that has Qemu support included
• Cisco all-in-one-VM-1.2.1-194.ova virtual machine

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• CPU with hardware virtualization support (AMD-V or VT-X virtualization extensions)
• Storage - 10 GB
• RAM - 2000 MB
• RAM vIOS - 384 MB

Script for Extracting vIOS from All-In-One VM

Here is a Linux bash script that helps you to extract vIOS  vios-adventerprisek9-m.vmdk  from  all-in-one VM file. Download all-in-one.ova file from here  and assign executable privileges to the script.

$ chmod +x extract_vios.txt

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VyOS x64 Installation on Qemu

VyOS is a community fork of Vyatta, a Linux-based network operating system that provides software-based network routing, firewall, and VPN functionality. The VyOS project was started in late 2013 as a community fork of the GPL portions of Vyatta Core 6.6R1 with the goal of maintaining a free and open source network operating system in response to the decision to discontinue the community edition of Vyatta.

VyOS runs on both physical and virtual platforms. It supports paravirtual drivers and integration packages for virtual platforms. It is completely free and open source.

The aim of the tutorial is to show VyOS installation on Qemu virtual machine and  get it working on GNS3.

VyOS Qemu and VirtualBox virtual disks can be downloaded here.

I created a Bash script deploy_vyos for automatic deployment of VyOS to Qemu image. The script downloads stable VyOS ISO image from the Internet,  creates Qemu disk and starts Qemu virtual machine with attached ISO image. Then is  starts Expect script install_vyos that automatically configure all required configuration options  without user intervention.

deploy_vyos
install_vyos

Just copy both scripts to the same directory, assign run privileges to both scripts with the command below and run the deploy_vyos script.

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RouterOS x86 Qemu and VirtualBox Appliances Download

MikroTik RouterOS is the stand-alone operating system of MikroTik RouterBOARD hardware. It can also be installed on a PC and will turn it into a router with all the necessary features – routing, firewall, bandwidth, management, wireless access point, backhaul link, hotspot, gateway, VPN server and more.

RouterOS x86 installed on Qemu and VirtualBox disks is not licensed, you have 24 hours in total to run these images.

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1. RouterOS x86 6.15

Qemu
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6L2h6R5UKMhQUcxMFl2a1pZZGs/edit?usp=sharing
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gns-3/files/Qemu%20Appliances/routeros-6.15-qemu.zip/download
http://www.4shared.com/zip/HG7nubJlba/routeros-615-qemu.html

VirtualBox
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6L2h6R5UKMhODYyNm0tWnFjXzA/edit?usp=sharingv
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gns-3/files/VirtualBox%20Appliances/routeros-6.15-vbox.zip/download
http://www.4shared.com/zip/qPN2tmD7ba/routeros-615-vbox.html