Then click Import an appliance template file Click on the Router button and then click New appliance template. You are now ready to add the NS-OXv devices into GNS3. Once GNS3 is open it should pick up your GNS3 VM which you can see in the Server Summary Start the VM and you should see something like the below: The only change I made was to change the first NIC in the VM to be bridged so that it would pick up a DHCP address on my LAN. ova file which you can just import in to VMWare Workstation. This is quite simple, the GNS3 VM is supplied as an. The GNS3 VM basically acts as your virtual router,switch or whatever device you are trying to simulate in GNS3.
Once installed you will need to also download the GNS3 VM.
You will now need to download and install GNS3 from here. You will need a Cisco VIRL login in order to access these. Once you have this you will need to download Cisco image file from here. You will see that you need to download several files for this to workįirst you need to download the GNS3 Cisco NX-OSv appliance from here. In this post I will go through what is required to setup GNS3 and add a Cisco NX-OS or NXOSv deviceįirst you can go to the GNS3 website and view the information about what is required to set this up here.
