How to Install and Configure GNS3 and GNS3 VM
We will learn to install and configure GNS3 software using your own GNS3 VM virtual machine.
We will use 3 software to perform the whole process, leaving the download links:
https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html
GNS3 (To download, you need to register at gns3.com) link is as follows:
https://gns3.com/software/download
On the webpage, the download link already appears. We click on it.
If we have already registered, we have two options to register or direct access. In our case, since we've already registered on the website, we're going directly to the "Login" section and entering our data.
After entering, the Download GNS3 «window appears, now we install the software, not the virtual machine, so we click the -Download section under our operating system, in our case Windows and the software, starts automatically.
GNS3 VM (download 2.1.14 since 2.2.0a2 as of today, still not working properly with GNS3):
https://gns3.com/software/download-vm
Next, we will explain the beginning of the GNS3 VM and then the installation and configuration of the GNS3 software. VMWare Workstation skips because it is “Next next next”. Then let's go there.
Commissioning GNS3 VM 2.14 through VMWare Workstation
1. Go to our download folder and find a .zip file called GNS3.VMWare.Worksation.2.1.14, when you open it, we find an .OVA (Open Virtualization Format Archive) file.
2. We will transfer the virtual machine to VMware Workstation Player 15, go to VMware and click "Open Virtual Machine".
3. Go to the folder where we downloaded the virtual machine and open the file. We'll find an .OVA file inside, click on it and click the "Open" button to start the import process.
5. To avoid problems, we've put the name we want and we're off the default path.
6. We've already imported, click "Play Virtual Machine" to start.
EYE CARE In some classes, we are asked to edit the configuration and delete the network card in Host-Only, if so, we find a good error with eth0, don't do it until it is absolutely necessary. In short, on this website, you will also find out how to solve the «Eth0 unstructured error. Please configure manually via the network menu «.
If we haven't touched the virtual machine and we haven't used another virtualizer, it's likely that you've already found the IP of the virtual machine, if you encounter an error on the interfaces, the network as it should be, something else on the VMware interfaces, as I said, will find the solution here very soon.
Installing and Configuring GNS3 Software
1. Run GNS3-2.1.14-all-in-one.exe to go to the download folders and start the installation of the application. Basically, I'm leaving some screenshots, giving you "Next" until you want the configuration, and see you below.
In our case we are not interested in this section, so we close it, leave it to your preference.
In our case we are not interested in this section, so we close it, leave it to your preference.
2. With the GNS3 VM virtual machine turned on, at the end of the installation, we give you the command başlat Start GNS3 için to run the software. We click "Finish" and start the configuration.
3. In the server configuration section, since we will use a server-specific virtual machine, we click çalıştır Run everything on the remote server (advanced use) ve and select “Don't show this again”. Don't ask it again every time we start the app. Click the «Next« button.
4. If you check your virtual machine, your GNS3 VM, you will see that it gives you an IP address and identity document, it requires us to enter the port (3080 TCP) we left by default to the IP address you gave us in Host for it to work. authentication. Enter the gns3 user and the gns3 password. Enter all data, click the «Next« button.
EYE CARE In some courses in the user, they put gns3 @ IP, if you do so, it won't work for you.
5. Below is a small summary of the data we have entered, confirming that they are correct, and click "Finish".
6. We left here, basically, our goal was to access GNS3 using the virtual machine and we will use some templates. That's why we click «Cancel». Let's give you free rein.
7. As you can see, in the “Server Summary” section, we see our GNS3 VM server configured as ready to use in VMware Workstation Player 15.
We already have it!
Thank you very much for watching this manual to the end, hopefully, it will help you and configuring GNS3 won't bother you as much as we do.