In this blog, you will learn how to add Palo alto firewall image in eve-ng. You can download the converted image of Paloalto firewall for eve-ng. Palo Alto is a next-generation firewall that provides a lot of Security features. You can add Palo alto firewall in Eve-NG and create your own lab for testing/education purposes.
There are two methods to add palo alto firewall to eve-ng.
- Deploying Palo alto firewall using KVM .qcow2 image (this is the easiest method to add firewall in eve-ng)
- Convert your own Palo alto firewall image for eve-ng
Table of Content
- Image Supported
- Download the Palo Alto Image
https://networkhunt.com/download/download-palo-alto-paloalto-8-0-1/
Images are not hosted in our server, we are just indexing the link found on the internet. - Extract the image
- upload the folder to Quemu
- Fix the Permission
- Open Eve-NG, add PaloAlto Node and enjoy.
EVE Image Name | Downloaded Filename | Version | vCPUs | vRAM | Console | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1. | paloalto-7.0.1 | PA-VM-ESX-7.0.1.ova | 7.0.1 | 2 | 4096 | Telnet |
2. | paloalto-8.0.1 | PA-VM-KVM-8.0.1.qcow2 | 8.0.1 | 2 | 4096 | Telnet |
Other versions should also be supported following bellow’s procedure.
1. Deploying Palo Alto firewall to eve-ng using KVM .qcow2 image
1.1. Using our image table, create the correct image folder,
This example is for image 2. in the table above. It is Paloalto 8.0.1 image. Per our image naming table, we have to create an image folder starting with Paloalto-, let’s do it.
mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/paloalto-8.0.1/
1.2. Upload the downloaded image to the EVE
/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/paloalto-8.0.1/ folder using for example FileZilla or WinSCP.
1.3. From the EVE CLI, go to the newly created image folder.
cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/paloalto-8.0.1/
1.4. Rename original filename to virtioa.qcow2
mv PA-VM-KVM-8.0.1.qcow2 virtioa.qcow2
1.5. Fix permissions:
/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions
The default username is admin with password admin.
2. Method, converting your own Palo Alto image for eve-ng from OVA VMDK disk.
2.1. Create temporary working directory and upload the downloaded image to the EVE using for example FileZilla or WinSCP. Then login as root using SSH protocol and uncompress it:
mkdir abc cd abc tar xf PA-VM-ESX-7.0.1.ova
2.2. Then convert the disk to the qcow2 format:
/opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 PA-VM-ESX-7.0.1-disk1.vmdk virtioa.qcow2
2.3. Create the folder for HDD image and move it:
mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/paloalto-7.0.1 mv virtioa.qcow2 /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/paloalto-7.0.1
2.4. Delete temporary directory abc and fix permissions:
cd .. rm -rf abc /opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions
The default username is admin with password admin.

Hi, why does the default username and password admin/admin not work? using Palo Alto 8.0
Hey bro, I was stuck in the same failure, but i noticed that at the begining the firewall was asking some different password, bu a couple of minutes after, it asked “PA_VM:”, then admin/admin worked
Hi, I have to download Panorama qcow2. Please provide me assistance.
bro admin/admin is not working
Hi Kunal,
Please try multiple times, we checked internally admin/admin are the credentials
Bro admin/admin work. once you start PV wait for minimum 180 seconds then enter admin admin will work.
once the services are started Palo alto accept the default user id and password, after booting please provide some time to palo alto to accept the default user id and password