GNS3 Install?

[HrtAttK]

Hello everyone!

 

Anyone install GNS3 on unraid successfully?  I am looking to use this and needed an informational if anyone has successfully done this.  It seems they are pushing VMWare as their platform of choice but I would like to use my server without spending anymore money

 

[thomas]

I used the VirtualBox VM and I installed it with Q35, SeaBIOS and manually assigning the 2 img disks, after converting them from vmdk images to raw. You need to use "kvm-intel.nested=1" if you want to have KVM support, otherwise it will complain that it will be slow... Everything works properly.

 

[lecrote]

On 1/15/2018 at 9:12 PM, thomas said:

I used the VirtualBox VM and I installed it with Q35, SeaBIOS and manually assigning the 2 img disks, after converting them from vmdk images to raw. You need to use "kvm-intel.nested=1" if you want to have KVM support, otherwise it will complain that it will be slow... Everything works properly.

 

 

Sorry for that noob question but how do you install a virtualbox VM in unraid.

I did search and didn't find any info.

In the VM setting the only thing I got as Operating system is Win8.1, linux, debian, ubuntu , etc.

No mention about Virtualbox VM.

The only thing I can think off is running a ubuntu VM and installing virtualbox in that VM so GNS3 will run in virtualbox in that VM in unraid. 

Or is it only the one on the GNS3 website that I download and install?

 

Thanks

[thomas]

You have to download the Virtualbox VM from GNS3 site, convert the two images from vmdk to raw. Then create a Linux VM and assign the 2 images manually. The VM needs to be Q35 type with SeaBios. After that it will boot normally and you can check it with VNC. You don't need to install Ubuntu or Virtual box.

[lecrote]

Hi did download it but I only got one  .ova file not 2 vmdk file!!??

 

thanks

[thomas]

You can extract the .ova file with 7zip or another unarchiver and you'll see the 2 vmdk files

[JonathanM]

You don't have to convert them to raw, you just have to manually specify the files instead of them being picked up automatically. Unraid's KVM can use vmdk files natively.