New Cisco IOL 17.18.2

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New Cisco IOL 17.18.2

Post by ccnp.net.eng » Fri May 15, 2026 7:20 am

Hi,
Along with the new version of Cisco CML 2.10.0, new image versions have been released, including new versions of Cisco IOL.
The new IOL images are no longer .qcow2 files. I'm wondering if it will be possible to run them in eve-ng?

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Re: New Cisco IOL 17.18.2

Post by rusty725 » Fri May 15, 2026 7:49 am

iol have never been .qcow2, but .bin

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Re: New Cisco IOL 17.18.2

Post by ccnp.net.eng » Fri May 15, 2026 8:04 am

Yes, older images were .bin files, but new images are .qcow2, please see here: https://www.eve-ng.net/index.php/docume ... -on-linux/

New refplat_iso contains IOL image in new format, a tar.gz archive. It is no longer a file with the .bin or .qcow2 extension inside

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Re: New Cisco IOL 17.18.2

Post by kazuki » Fri May 15, 2026 12:33 pm

Since version 17.18.2, they stopped shipping a binary and switched to distributing it as a Docker image.
Because of that, the old method won’t boot the node anymore.
Guess I’ll just have to wait for a proper Docker template to drop…

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