Virl vIOS Images

[morgb74]

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

[Uldis (UD)]

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

[RTG]

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]

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?

[morgb74]

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.

[Uldis (UD)]

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

[morgb74]

Hi Uldis,

Does this look ok ?

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root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vios-adventerprisek9-m-15.6-2-T# qemu-img info virtioa.qcow2
image: virtioa.qcow2
file format: qcow2
virtual size: 2.0G (2147483648 bytes)
disk size: 122M
cluster_size: 65536
Format specific information:
    compat: 1.1
    lazy refcounts: false
    refcount bits: 16
    corrupt: false

[Uldis (UD)]

Shoul look like this:

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

[RTG]

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.

[morgb74]

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