GNS3 install made easy

it's been a while since i created a gns3 installation video jeremy and the team have done a lot of work on the web ui and i want to show you an updated video of the genus 3 installation process it's a lot easier today than it was in the past jeremy and team are focusing on the web ui that's the future of gns3 makes it a lot easier rather than having a gns3 vm and a gns3 client and having to get them to talk to each other which often has problems especially say on windows or mac the focus is on a gns3 vm and then you use a web interface so just your browser to connect to the gns3 vm so i'm going to show you how to get gns3 installed and running on the windows laptop in this demonstration i'm doing all the work on this windows laptop i am controlling it from my mac but the installation work is being done on the laptop [Music] so let's see how long it takes me to get gns3 installed and running so in a web browser go to gns3 click free download and don't select these options scroll down and select download the gns3 vm and then select the gns3 vm for the hypervisor that you're going to use in my example i'm going to use vmware workstation and fusion so i'm going to download the gns3 vm 2.22 in this example and save it to my downloads directory okay so when you watch this video there may be a later release of gns3 the process however is very similar so even if they've released gns3 2.2 to 23 or 2.3 or 2.5 or even version 3.0 the process is very similar to what i'm showing you here now when it comes to hypervisors lots of debate about which hypervisor is best you're basically going to need to run the gns3 vm on something so on windows in my example on this windows laptop i could use vmware workstation player i could use vmware workstation pro i could use virtualbox as an example there are advantages and disadvantages to each of those vmware workstation player is free but it has some restrictions you can't create snapshots as an example which you can do in vmware workstation pro virtualbox is free software but when i asked jeremy these questions like which is the best he always comes back to saying vmware workstation pro if you can or vmware workstation player so that's what i'm going to demonstrate here the reason for that is typically virtualbox doesn't do nested virtualization as well as vmware does okay so that's downloaded i'll select show in folder i'll right click on that and click extract all and then i'll simply extract it to my downloads directory okay so in my downloads directory i've got this folder and inside there i've got an ova file i'm going to want to open that in vmware workstation pro or player in this example i'll show you player because it's free software so in google i'll simply type download vmware player and i'll click on the first download link i'll put a link to this below this video if you can't find it vmware sometimes change their website so the links change but at the moment as an example under workspace they have an option where you can get workstation player and download workstation player so you can click download to download it but i'm going to use this link which i find better i'm going to click download now and i'm going to download the software to my windows computer now this is my opinion i have found that vmware player is perhaps being crippled a lot more than it was in the past they're trying to upsell you to workstation pro which i understand but it's a bit of a pain that they making it hard in some ways to use workstation player but it's still okay so what i'll do is open that in folder and i'll double click on the vmware workstation player executable and i'll click run click yes to install the software installation starts it's a very basic installation i'm going to click next on the wizard you need to agree to the terms of this license basically workstation play is free for non-commercial use so if you're in an educational environment or you're just studying at home you can use the software i'm going to click next click next i'm not going to join the customer experience program just before i click next i'm going to open up control panel because i want to show you that in network and sharing center under change adapter settings i don't currently have a virtual network interface card for vmware workstation player i do have one for virtualbox i do have my physical wi-fi interface hypervisor software such as vmware workstation player will create virtual adapters on your computer that's normal so back in the installation i'll click next click next and click install and what you should notice when this installs is that virtual network interfaces are added to control panel on this computer you can see it's saying installing virtual network drivers and there you go we've got one network driver installed ethernet 2 here's ethernet 3. that is normal behavior and i'm going to click finish now now that the installation is completed so vmware workstation player has been installed the next step is to get gns3 imported into vmware workstation player so back in my downloads directory i'm going to go to the ova file that was extracted and i'm going to open this with vmware player okay i need to give the gns3 vm a name so i'm going to call this 2 2 22. because that's the version i downloaded i'm going to leave it in the default directory and i'll click import so just move this up a bit the gns3 vm is now being imported now before you start this we need to have nested virtualization enabled in the bios of the computer so at this point i'm going to show you how to get nested virtualization enabled in the bios of this computer if you've already got nested virtualization enabled on your computer you can go to this timestamp so skip this part where i'm showing you how to get nested virtualization enabled it's basically vtx or amdv needs to be enabled in the bios of your computer to allow for nested virtualization of a vm now in this example i've got an asus laptop it's got an intel cpu and i've got an hp laptop that's got an amd cpu the process that you follow will vary depending on the manufacturer so on asus as an example i need to reboot the laptop and press f2 to go into the bios settings on hp i need to use f10 to go into the bios settings so refer to the documentation for your manufacturer to determine which key you need to use to get into the bios or just use google to do a search to find out which key to use to get into the bios for your specific laptop or computer so i'll now show you how to enable vtx on a laptop that has an intel processor as well as a laptop that has an amd processor okay so the first thing i need to do is shut the laptop down so i'm going to click power shutdown to shut the computer down laptop has been shut down now because this is an asus laptop i need to press power and f2 so f2 will take me to the bios and as you can see i'm now in the bios of the computer so they tell you which keystrokes to use so as an example right arrow will take me from one menu to the other so i've gone from the main menu to advanced and what i want to enable is intel virtualization technology at the moment it's disabled so i want to select that option once again using the arrow keys go to intel virtualization technology press enter and then specify enabled so what i'm going to do now is use the right arrow key go to save and exit make sure that i've selected save and exit press enter and then press enter again to save the configuration and exit laptop is now rebooted and now i can enter my pin and log in and there you go i've logged into the laptop okay so i'll do something similar on this computer with an amd processor go to the start menu i'll select power options and i'll select shutdown to shut down the computer computer is now shutting down okay this is a hp laptop so i need to use f10 so i'll start the laptop press f10 okay so something similar needs to be done here i'm going to go to system configuration virtualization technology so virtualization technology is currently disabled what i need to do is press enter select enabled press enter and then i need to exit so save my configuration and exit press enter to save the changes the laptop is now rebooted we can see that the hp laptop is booting up this is an older laptop so it's quite slow okay i need to put my password in press enter to log in i've now successfully logged in okay so you've got nested virtualization enabled in the bios of your computer let's continue the installation okay so at this point we asked do we want to install the vmware tools for linux i'm going to say download and install we asked do we want to allow the app to make changes yes and as you can see the gns3 vm has booted up now in this example i didn't make any changes to vmware one of the things it's doing is it's not using a bridged interface so if i go to play and manage virtual machine settings you can see various settings about the virtual machine you can see the memory you can see the processors as an example notice a virtualized intel vtx or amdv that's why we needed to enable vtx in the bios of the computer but once again notice here we've got a host only and a netted network interface rather than bridged so i won't be able to connect to that gns3 vm from my mac at the moment but what i can do is open up a web browser and i'll connect to the ip address of the gns3 vm and what you should see is something like this gns3 is installed and running all i need to do now is create a project so i'll call this my first project click add project interface is fairly intuitive i won't cover all of that detail here i'll just show you how to get a topology setup so click on add node and i'll drag a vpcs device into the topology i'll drag another one and i'll drag a switch into the topology so what i've got now is a topology of two pcs and a switch i'll click on add link select the first pc select the switch select the switch again second ethernet interface select the interface of the pc and i'll click start to start up the nodes and then what i can do is right click and click web console now in this example because i'm using brave it's blocking a bunch of stuff so i'm going to disable that so it refreshes right click web console and now when i press enter i see pc1 right click here web console i see pc2 now the resolution is quite limited on this laptop so what you may want to do rather than doing it that way is you can open the web console in a separate tab so you can either use it like this so here's my web console i'll make this a bit smaller or open it up in a separate tab okay so this is not refreshing nicely let me try that again so open up web console here we go we've got pc1 pc2 on pc1 i'll set an ip address of that on pc2 ip address this and hopefully from pc1 i'll be able to ping pc2 which i can and on pc2 i can ping pc1 there you go very basic network up and running with indiana 3. i've got genus 3 running within vmware workstation player on a windows laptop there's a gns3 vm i don't need a gui installed on my pc to run this now gns3 has a lot of options and i won't show you all those options i'll just show you as an example that you can change the symbols used by devices so you may prefer using a symbol like this for your pc so i'll right click change symbol make that a client like that and on the switch change the symbol to say something like this and click apply this switch doesn't have a console and that's why i can't access the console of that switch it's a built-in switch in gna3 but i'll show you in other videos how you can add devices to a gener3 topology at this point i simply wanted to show you that you can get a network up and running where one pc can ping another pc within gns3 now if you're struggling and you have issues you can get support from the gns3 community use the link below to connect to the gns3 community and get help from people in the community hope you enjoyed this 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Length: 15min 53sec (953 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 14 2021