topic RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box in ExtremeSwitching (EXOS/Switch Engine)

Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Manish_S — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:05:00 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to setup my lab environment, with virtual box 4.3.26. I have uploaded the virtual box extension pacl. I have downloaded the EXOS VM, but when ever I try to import the VM the machine is not being listed in the folder specified.

This is the very first time I am using Virtual Box. Might be some dumb issue.

Had been couple of days that I have googled the issue, but couldn't resolve. Pls. help.

Regards,
Manish

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Tavares_Belmont — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 19:10:00 GMT

@Manish

Can you post the picture? Usually you just import appliance and configure the virtualbox interfaces, do you have vms with .ovf extension?

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Kawawa — Mon, 13 Apr 2015 20:30:00 GMT

Hi Manish, only Open Virtualization Format or OVF files can be imported as Virtual Machines into Virtualbox. If you've downloaded the VM from https://xkit.extremenetworks.com/app/v/extremexosvm, you'll first have to decompress the file. Once done, you can create a VM in virtualbox using the standard process of creating a virtual machine (Name it and select Next, you can keep all the default settings)

When selecting the Hard drive to use, select the Use an existing virtual hard drive file and browse to the folder you decompressed above. You should be able to see a .vdi file inside.

Once done, you should be able to see the VM listed in your VM list. You can then specify your network/serial port options and start the VM.

All the best

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

dflouret — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Manish, here's an OVA of the latest EXOS VM.
[list=1]

Download it and double-click the .ova file. Virtualbox will import it automagically...

Admin edit: See this article on where to download Virtual EXOS

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Armen_Martirosy — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Daniel,

The link you have provided is either expired or wrong. Can you please submit a new one.

Thanks a lot.

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

dflouret — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Armen, you can now find the latest EXOS VM in GitHub: https://github.com/extremenetworks/Virtual_EXOS

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Ryan_Mathews — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Additional context for those that come later:

https://gtacknowledge.extremenetworks.com/articles/Q_A/Where-to-download-the-latest-version-of-ExOS-...

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Gopalakrishnan_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Hi Daniel,

May I know, Where can I get the summitX-21.1.2.14-patch1-2.iso?

Thanks

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Drew_C — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Hi Gopalakrishnan,
I think maybe you mean

code:

vm-21.1.2.14-patch1-2.iso

? Patch versions of EXOS VM aren't usually posted unless there is a compelling reason to upload them.

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

dflouret — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

To add to Drew's comment, patch versions for the VM are not usually generated.

A patch version is issued to correct some bug in production code. The VM is a testing tool not meant for production so there's no compelling reason to provide patches to it.

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Gopalakrishnan_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Thanks Drew and Daniel.But I need this patch for one of my devstack environment staging. Is there any way to get it ? kindly confirm. Currently I have

code:

vm-21.1.2.14.iso.

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

dflouret — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Again, no patch versions are produced for VM images. It just makes no sense...

Since many features don't work in the VM (i.e. VPLS), or work differently (LAG only supports round-robin, which is not available in physical switches), you can't use it to make sure a specific patch solves a certain problem in a specific configuration. You need to use real switches for that.

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Gopalakrishnan_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 03:06:00 GMT

Okay. Thanks Daniel

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Manish_S — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:40:00 GMT

Hi All,

Thanks for your replies.

@ Tavares Belmont :
Pls. find the PSR attached along, showing the file that got downloaded from https://xkit.extremenetworks.com/app/v/extremexosvm. I tried downloading it twice had the same file size, though till now I didn't check the md5. As I mentioned googled it, followed the procedure but failed to import as nothing was being detected.

@ Kawawa :
I downloaded the file from the link, I compressed the entire file as well as tried just compressing the VM, but post that couldn't find the .vdi file. I tried specifying the .vdi extention, but did't find any such file in the directory.

@ Daniel Flouret :
Many thanks. The link that you shared was very usefull. I am able to create the machine in VB now. I imported it to GNS3 as well. I tried linking it with VB option in GNS3, connected it to a Cisco IOS machine, but after giving the IP not able to ping each other. I read in an article, it has to be imported as QEMU. Is it so?? Also the I started the VM today and it shows its a trial for 30 days. So what happens after 30 days can I use the same after it gets expired doing a fresh installation.

Waiting in anticipation.

Regards,
Manish

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

dflouret — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:40:00 GMT

The VM has a core license but, for some reason it also had a demo license installed.

Remove the demo licensewith the following command:
debug epm clear trial-license
After reboot the 30-day message will disappear.

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Manish_S — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:29:00 GMT

Hi Daniel,

I happen to come across another post of yours in which you have explained about interface.

I gave the loopback interface enable command and was able to ping the the self interface on the EXOS machine. If I can create the lab without importing the machine to GNS3, I am fine with it as well. As i read your post I understand that you create labs in VB. I assume that you might use multiple devices to create a virtual lab. Can you pls. share some documents which would explain how to use VB to connect multiple devices together instead of importing it to GNS 3 (even this would help)

Regards,
Manish

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Tavares_Belmont — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:52:00 GMT

@Manish S

Send me your email, i can share my vm with you. 

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Manish_S — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:41:00 GMT

@ Tavares Belmont :

Have you tried connecting multiple EXOS machines together. My machines have started but I am not able to inter-connect them on GNS3. Earlier I was not able to ping the self IP but post referring to a post-reply by Daniel I started getting replies for self IP. Throwing some light on how to get the devices inter-connected on GNS3 or Oracle VB would be really appreciated.

email ID : manish@algort.co.in

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Manish

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

dflouret — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 17:46:00 GMT

Manish,

I've shared this document in other posts but here it goes again. It's a quick and dirty How-To manual detailing installation and interconnection of VMs in VB.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/79bvn8vzinmme70/Installing%20EXOS-VM.pdf?dl=0

RE: Configuring Exos Virtual Box

Manish_S — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:12:00 GMT

Hi Daniel,

I happened to stumble upon the doc couple of hours back. Had a brief go-through, hope I might get some time to work on it tonight.

Many thanks.

Regards,
Manish