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# 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**
3. Select the IOSv Router
4. Install on the Server VM
5. Accept the default QEMU.
6. Because the images were already in my downloads folder, there were detected automatically.
7. I still needed to click on the .img file and manually find them!
8. Finished.
9. I drag and drop the router into the project and start it.
10. I connect one interface (GigabitEthernet0/0) to an existing switch and configure as shown.
11. 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
```
12. 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.
