VEOS is supported on QEMU/KVM, VirtualBox, VMware Workstation, VMware Fusion 4 and 5, VMware ESX, and Hyper-V. These changes will eventually make it back to an official release, at which point you will once again be able to run the exact same image on your switch as on your VM. A couple of minor changes were required support front-panel interfaces. It cannot be loaded onto real hardware as it has had its hardware support stripped out.Īt this point, official EOS releases do not support running in an EOS VM with front panel interfaces. The vEOS SWI image provided in the vEOS vmdk is currently a derivative of the official EOS release. This can take some time on the virtual flash, but will not be necessary after the first boot. As part of the standard boot process, we copy the EOS swi image we’re booting to another location on flash if it has changed since the last time we booted. You will notice a significant delay the very first time you boot the VM. In order to test ZTP, you can delete the startup-config file and reboot. This prevents ZTP from starting automatically at boot, which is what would normally happen on a new system. The simulated flash differs a bit from a new system from the factory in that it does not contain an empty startup-config file.
It is required when running EOS versions 4.17.0F and above.Ĭertain data-plane features can only be configured if front-panel interfaces exist, so be sure to configure your VM with at least 2 interfaces (1 management and 1 front-panel interface). Up to 4 or 7 front-panel interfaces (depends on the hypervisor)ĢGB of memory per vEOS instance is recommended, though 1.5GB is sufficient for most testing.Īboot-veos 8.0.0 or above is recommended.The VM simulates a fixed system switch with the following hardware: Extensibility – eAPI, EOS SDK, OpenFlow.元 – Routed ports, Static routing, BGP, OSPF, VARP, VRRP.L1 Connectivity – Link up/down (when connected to another EOS VM port), LLDP.EOS in a VMĮOS run in a VM can be used to test almost all aspects of EOS, including:
That same single image can even be run in a virtual machine! This article describes how to set up a virtual machine in order to test EOS functionality, or to develop and test your own extensions. You won't go wrong there either.EOS is released as a single image that supports all of our platforms. But VirtualBox has a lot of fans, and a large online user base. If you just want to quickly set up a basic VM with everything default, I'd try Gnome-Boxes.
Installed CentOS Stream 8 and Windows 10 VMs on my new Vermeer system, with Western Digital SN850 Black nvme drive.
So I stayed with Virtual Machine Manager and a bit of prior manual LVM configuration. I would have used it yesterday, except I wanted to provision my VMs on a dedicated LVM partition and Gnome-Boxes, although simpler, was a bit too simple to do that. Another GUI option for KVM/QEMU libvirt is Gnome-Boxes, which appears to be even simpler than even VirtualBox. Virtual Machine Manager is not quite as simple as VirtualBox. They too have a nice gui by way of Virtual Machine Manager. Since then I've moved to KVM/QEMU and libvirt. VirtualBox also takes (or took a few years ago) about a 30% performance hit. VirtualBox does have a nice gui, and is relatively simple to use. VMWare is kind-of legacy corporate stuff.