{"id":527,"date":"2017-03-21T21:40:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T21:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flat-planet.net\/?p=527"},"modified":"2017-08-24T16:54:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:54:15","slug":"adding-arista-veos-images-to-unetlab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/?p=527","title":{"rendered":"Adding Arista vEOS images to UnetLab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arista provides a number of VM type images that you can use. The one with the software forwarding plane is vEOS-lab. This image has all the control plane features of standard EOS from Arista, with a software dataplane &#8211; the downside to this is that features that rely on the hardware e.g. NAT aren&#8217;t available.<\/p>\n<p>There are two files required to get a working vEOS switch. The vmdk file and the Aboot ISO. To create a working vEOS on 4.17.5M we need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>vEOS-lab-4.17.5M.vmdk<\/li>\n<li>Aboot-veos-serial-8.0.0.iso<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To create an image that UnetLab will recognise the following steps should turn the trick<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Create the directory for the version in question<\/li>\n<li>Copy the two files in there<\/li>\n<li>Convert the vEOS-lab-4.17.5M.vmdk to a qcow image<\/li>\n<li>Rename the Aboot ISO to cdrom.iso file<\/li>\n<li>All done &#8211; fire up your Lab and select Arista vEOS as the template<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<pre class=\"brush: bash; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nmkdir \/opt\/unetlab\/addons\/qemu\/veos-4.17.4M\/\r\n\/opt\/qemu\/bin\/qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 .\/vEOS-4.17.5M.vmdk hda.qcow2\r\nmv Aboot-veos-serial-8.0.0.iso \/opt\/unetlab\/addons\/qemu\/veos-4.17.5M\/cdrom.iso\r\nrm .\/vEOS-4.17.5M.vmdk\r\n\/opt\/unetlab\/wrappers\/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arista provides a number of VM type images that you can use. The one with the software forwarding plane is vEOS-lab. This image has all the control plane features of standard EOS from Arista, with a software dataplane &#8211; the downside to this is that features that rely on the hardware e.g. NAT aren&#8217;t available. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,95],"tags":[97,337,40,338,336,335,23],"series":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arista","category-data-networking","tag-arista-2","tag-converting","tag-networking","tag-qcow2","tag-unetlab","tag-veos","tag-virtualisation-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=527"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flat-planet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}