IOSv Router

In this session we will install a modern virtual router running Cisco IOX-XE. This is a good device to use on a cloud course, it is a virtual router, this is network functions virtualization (NFV). I am going to assume from the previous session that you know how to install an appliance.

Before you begin, obtain the correct firmware images from your lecturer.

Open the previous project (IOSvL2) and save it as IOSv.

1. Open the all-devices tab and click + to install a new template.

2. Select to Install from the GNS3 server

1. Select the IOSv Router

1. Install on the Server VM

1. Accept the default QEMU.

2. Because the images were already in my downloads folder, there were detected automatically.

1. I still needed to click on the .img file and manually find them!

1. Finished.

1. I drag and drop the router into the project and start it.

2. I connect one interface (GigabitEthernet0/0) to an existing switch and configure as shown.

1. I configure the router with the following.

# Router1
en
conf t

hostname router1
int gi0/0
 ip address 192.168.1.254 255.255.255.0
exit
exit
wr mem

1. Finally, I test. I should be able to ping each device from every other device.

Finally

You must save the configuration of each device as you would in the real world. At the console of each device, type write memory, most of us shorten that to wr mem

Save your work and exit, you can then shut down GNS3.