24 port EXOS VM in GNS3/QEMU

[Ash]

Hi,

I was able to successfully create a QEMU EXOS VM and console into it. Strangely though, when I create the QEMU VM, i choose 24 ports in e1000 type adapter however when i issue the 'show ports' command in EXOS, it only shows 12 ports. Is this limitation built into EXOS or QEMU?

Anyone has any experience in this setup? Is there a way to overcome this limitation?

Thanks

[Ash]

Drew thanks for the response. If its a EXOS limitation, then its a pity. So i'm guessing there's no way to simulate 24,48 port switches?

[Ash]

Hi Grosjean, Yes its understood its not a sold product. I think it will benefit the community though by allowing the capability to simulate and troubleshoot large (actual) deployed networks.

Looking forward to the info you find out.

[Stephane_Grosj1]

Hi,

this is not a product per se, more a free tool to play with, but we can have a look why there's such limitation. Not sure if we can remove it easily, so we can't promise anything.

[Ash]

Understood. I think you and Daniel Flouret both work for Extreme. If so, please feed this as a feature request into the next release of the VM, if its a maintained product. I think it'll be incredibly useful to have support for 48 ports on the EXOS VM to simulate some larger topologies in tools like GNS3.

[Drew_C]

None that I know of.