Check Point GAiA as Personal Firewall on Linux – Part2
This is the second part of the tutorial that aims to deploy Check Point Gaia as a personal firewall under Linux. Let' assume that we have created underlying network infrastructure with the scripts create_taps.sh and bridge_interfaces.sh in Part1. This part goes further and explains Gaia installation on QEMU virtual machine (VM). We will use the same network topology depicted on the Picture 1.1 of the part 1. Let's start with the point 2.

Picture 1.1 Network Topology
2. Checkpoint Gaia Installation
First, we need to create an empty qcow VM disk with qemu-img utility as we want to install Gaia into this image.
$ /usr/local/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 checkpoint.img 100G
As we downloaded Gaia ISO image in the part1 of the tutorial, we can start Checkpoint Gaia VM machine with the ISO attached to Qemu cdrom.
$ sudo /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -m 4096M -enable-kvm -smp 2 \
-boot d -cdrom Check_Point_R80.10_T462_Gaia.iso checkpoint.img \
-netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=tap0,script=no,downscript=no \
-device e1000,netdev=net0,mac=00:11:22:33:44:00 \
-netdev tap,id=net1,ifname=tap1,script=no,downscript=no \
-device e1000,netdev=net1,mac=00:11:22:33:44:01 \
-netdev tap,id=net2,ifname=tap2,script=no,downscript=no \
-device e1000,netdev=net2,mac=00:11:22:33:44:02
Below are the configuration options.
Select:
- Install Gaia on this system
- Proceed with the installation
- Keyboard - US
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