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Hi Folks

Great product, been using it since the unetlabs days (amazing). I'm having a problem with any Virl vIOS image (I have a virl license and subscription, just dont like the interface).

My Images are :-



My VMware Settings are Workstation 12.5 :- (16 Core Extreme 64GB Host Machine Windows 10)



The Boot Process seems to start and work 90% then stop with no response on the console, showing just this :-



Sometimes goes further, and shows this :-



The Console session just hangs with no login prompt, I'm kinda stumped as what to try or do next. I've changed the end filenames to both hda.qcow2 + virtioa.qcow2 as a test with the same results, the session just seems to stop on the console, I've left them for 40 minutes sometimes still nothing.

I know i'm doing something wrong, just cant figure it out

Any hints or pointers much appreciated

one advice, set CPU settings to 8/1
not like you have 1/8.

I would try to increase EVE Virtual Machine memory. Maybe the hog has something to do with it.

I have dedicated 4 GB on my eve virtual machine running on VWMare Workstation 12 (my notebook got 8 GB in total). Until now, I was able to run L2 and L3 Virl images without any issues.

Try create a machine with the same steps from the EVE creator videos.

http://www.eve-ng.net/index.php/documen ... ne-install

RTG wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 28, 2017 8:47 pm

I would try to increase EVE Virtual Machine memory. Maybe the hog has something to do with it.

I have dedicated 4 GB on my eve virtual machine running on VWMare Workstation 12 (my notebook got 8 GB in total). Until now, I was able to run L2 and L3 Virl images without any issues.

Try create a machine with the same steps from the EVE creator videos.

http://www.eve-ng.net/index.php/documen ... ne-install

Forget what I said.. I saw now that you got 32 GB of memory dedicated to the Virtual Machine.
Did you tried to use another Virl image?

Thanks for the hints guys, I switched the VM cores around as suggested, still not working unfortunately, I was using the Virl images from their website, maybe they have a problem or a bad copy. I will need to try and source different L2/L3 image to test with.

I't must be something to do with the Virl images, they do exactly the same behaviour and hang at the same stage also using GNS3/Qemu.

For Info here as the images I tried from Virl




I'll keep you guys updated if I find another image to test.

vmdk images need convert to qcow2 format and load in proper folders...

Hi Uldis,

Does this look ok ?

Shoul look like this:

root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vios-adventerprisek9-m-15.6.2T# ls
virtioa.qcow2

Why are you booting the image via VMWare ?

I am using the same images that you, but I uploaded my images to the EVE VM and boot it from within.

Maybe you already tried this, but I will say anyway

Put the images on these directories:
/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vios-adventerprisek9-m.156-2.T/virtioa.qcow2
/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/viosl2-adventerprisek9-m.152-4.0.55.E/virtioa.qcow2

Clean and fix permissions with the command
/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions

If you do this right, the nodes Cisco vIOS and Cisco vIOS L2 will be available to deploy (blue colored). Just start it up, and it should boot right.

I'm not booting these in vmware - post 1 is the output from eve-ng webinterface after i console, all you have mentioned has already been done in previous posts.

Thanks anyway