In the IOS Image window, navigate to the location of the images you have downloaded to your computer by clicking the Browse button. In this window, the Local Computer option is selected by default, but since you will run the IOS image on the virtual server, you need to continue by selecting the “Run this IOS router on the GNS3 VM” option. In this step, you are asked where you want to run the IOS image. In the IOS Router Templates window, click the IOS Routers option under Dynamips on the left and then click the New button under the devices listed on the right. To add IOS to the server, first, click on File / Preferences on GNS3. The images you add here will be uploaded to the virtual server you imported. When you activate the relevant option while the GNS3 Server is running, you can see that the virtual server has started actively in the Servers Summary section.Īfter enabling the GNS3 VM, you need to add a new Router IOS image on the server and test it. You can also change the port number of the virtual server here and set the GNS3 VM to be turned off when you close the GNS3 program. Open the GNS3 program and click on File / Preferences.įirst, click on the GNS3 VM option and then select the “Enable the GNS3 VM” option from the settings in the right section and click the OK button after checking the virtual server name you imported in the VM Name section. Importing the GNS3 VM not only to VMware Workstation is complete, but you also need to enable it on the simulator program. To test the network connection between the GNS3 VM and the host, open the CMD command prompt and check that the connection is OK by using the ping command. If you configure the GNS3 VM as Bridged in the Virtual Network Editor program, you will see that your host machine has received an address from the IP address block. In this window, you can check the server, Qemu, and Ubuntu versions and check that the virtualization environment is the VMware platform.Īlso, in the IP part, you can see the IP address of the virtual server received by the NAT adapter. The main screen of the GNS3 Server is as below image. If your host’s disk type is NVMe or SSD, click the Import button to install in the default location.Īs soon as you click the Import button, the installation process of the GNS3 server to the location you specified will start as follows.Īt this step, if the VMware hardware version of the GNS3 VM virtual machine is an older version, upgrade the hardware version to the latest version of Workstation Pro and then run the virtual machine. If you want to import the OVA virtual server file to an external disk, click the Browse button and select the relevant location and continue. Go to the location of the file you extracted to the folder and select the GNS3 VM.ova file and click Open. In this article, since we will make an installation with VMware software in Windows 10, click the Download button under the VMware Workstation option and download the OVA file to your computer.Īfter downloading the archived virtual machine file with the zip extension to your computer, extract it to the folder and then open VMware Pro and click File / Open. These are VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, and VMware ESXi. When the Download window opens, you will see 3 options. To download the current version of the GNS3 VM, visit the official website of GNS3 and click the Free Download button as in the image below.Ĭlick the Download VM for GNS3 link in the For Optimal Performance section.
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