November 8, 20232 yr Hi. Im trying to get the Aruba CX simulator running. This is in OVA format. I have extracted this file and converted the disk and it boots fine. Where im having issues is the network interface does not work. I have tried several options for the adapter. vmxnet3 e1000 virtio virtio-net and none of them work. From the below OVF you can see it needs multiple adapters. Does anyone have any recomendations? <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Envelope vmw:buildId="build-3018522" xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:cim="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/common" xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1" xmlns:rasd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_ResourceAllocationSettingData" xmlns:vmw="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovf" xmlns:vssd="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/CIM_VirtualSystemSettingData" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:vbox="http://www.virtualbox.org/ovf/machine"> <References> <File ovf:href="arubaoscx-disk-image-genericx86-p4-20210610000730.vmdk" ovf:id="file1"/> </References> <DiskSection> <Info>List of the virtual disks used in the package</Info> <Disk ovf:capacity="11193129984" ovf:diskId="vmdisk1" ovf:fileRef="file1" ovf:format="http://www.vmware.com/interfaces/specifications/vmdk.html#streamOptimized"/> </DiskSection> <NetworkSection> 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<rasd:ResourceSubType>PCNet32</rasd:ResourceSubType> <rasd:ResourceType>10</rasd:ResourceType> </Item> <Item ovf:required="false"> <rasd:AutomaticAllocation>false</rasd:AutomaticAllocation> <rasd:ElementName>video</rasd:ElementName> <rasd:InstanceID>16</rasd:InstanceID> <rasd:ResourceType>24</rasd:ResourceType> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="enable3DSupport" vmw:value="false" /> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="use3dRenderer" vmw:value="automatic" /> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="useAutoDetect" vmw:value="false" /> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="videoRamSizeInKB" vmw:value="16384" /> </Item> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="cpuHotAddEnabled" vmw:value="false"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="cpuHotRemoveEnabled" vmw:value="false"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="firmware" vmw:value="bios"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="memoryHotAddEnabled" vmw:value="false"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="nestedHVEnabled" vmw:value="false"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="powerOpInfo.powerOffType" vmw:value="soft"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="powerOpInfo.resetType" vmw:value="soft"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="powerOpInfo.standbyAction" vmw:value="checkpoint"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="powerOpInfo.suspendType" vmw:value="hard"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="tools.afterPowerOn" vmw:value="true"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="tools.afterResume" vmw:value="true"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="tools.beforeGuestShutdown" vmw:value="true"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="tools.beforeGuestStandby" vmw:value="true"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="tools.syncTimeWithHost" vmw:value="false"/> <vmw:Config ovf:required="false" vmw:key="tools.toolsUpgradePolicy" vmw:value="manual"/> </VirtualHardwareSection> <!--Extended section (Section 4.5 in DSP2017_1.0.0) is not honored by ESXi--> <!--Instead, add additional extended information as comments in the OVF--> <!--<BuildSystem>arubaef04.rose.rdlabs.hpecorp.net</BuildSystem>--> </VirtualSystem> </Envelope>
November 8, 20232 yr As you can see network types are "PCNet32"; most probably the os has few drivers for network adapters, maybe only that one. You can try to manually edit your xml and put 'pcnet' as model type for network, instead of 'e1000' or whatever it is. <model type='pcnet'/> Edited November 8, 20232 yr by ghost82
November 9, 20232 yr Author 22 hours ago, ghost82 said: As you can see network types are "PCNet32"; most probably the os has few drivers for network adapters, maybe only that one. You can try to manually edit your xml and put 'pcnet' as model type for network, instead of 'e1000' or whatever it is. <model type='pcnet'/> No Joy with that. I'm giving up, tried otehr things like a ESXi host in Unraid or a windows Vm with VMware workstation and still the same. Shame this would be really useful to have working.
March 5, 20242 yr Hey guys. I have GNS3 (which also uses KVM) running with ArubaCX Simulator on a Bare Metal Host. I can say "virtio-net-pci" is definitely working.
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