GNS3 on VMWare

For students using VMWare Workstation at home, or in the University Labs

I will assume you have already installed VMWare Workstation. If you need to install this on a home computer, discuss with your lecturer. If you are working in a University laboratory, this will be preinstalled.

You should have already completed the Simple GNS3 install on your home computer. If you are working in a University laboratory, this will be preinstalled.

On the GNS3 Downloads page, I click to download the GNS3 VM.

I am given several options, I select VMWare Workstation and Fusion. At time of writing, this was over 1GB, you need decent broadband.

The download is in a ZIP format, you need to extract the file, I do so in the Downloads folder.

There is a single .ova file, open that in VMWare Workstation.

Next I open GNS3 and go to Edit->Preferences->GNS3 VM.

I select Enable the GNS3 VM and under virtualization engine, I select VMWare Workstation and click OK.