Versions this guide is based on
EVE Image Foldername | Downloaded Filename | Version | vCPUs | vRAM | Console |
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nsx-6.4.5-13282012 | VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012.ova | 6.4.5 | 4 | 16384 | vnc/https |
Instructions |
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Other versions should also be supported following bellow’s procedure.
Steps below are based on nsx-6.4.5-13282012 creation, for other image deployment, use proper names respectively. 1. Download VM VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012.ova. The VM Ware account is required to obtain this image. 2. SSH to EVE and login as root, from cli and create temporary working directory abc on the EVE’s root: mkdir abc
cd abc
3. Upload the downloaded OVA image to the EVE root/abc using for example FileZilla or WinSCP. 4. Extract OVA image, for further use we will need vmdk image which is inside OVA. root@eve-ng:~/abc# tar xvf VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012.ova
VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012.ovf
VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012.mf
VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012.cert
VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012-disk1.vmdk
root@eve-ng:~/abc#
5. Convert vmdk (red above) hdd to the qcow2 format. /opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 VMware-NSX-Manager-6.4.5-13282012-disk1.vmdk hda.qcow2
6. Create new image folder mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/nsx-6.4.5-13282012
8. Move your created prepared image files hda.qcow2 to the image directory mv hda.qcow2 /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/nsx-6.4.5-13282012/
9. Delete temporary directory abc and fix permissions cd
rm -rf abc
/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions
Username and password for newly created image will be admin/default |