How to add Cisco IOS (Dynamips Images) to Eve-ng

Dynamips is a Cisco router emulator. Supported platforms are 1700, 2600, 3600, 3700 and 7200 routers. Each IOS has an associated Idle PC value. Idle PC is used to map the idle instruction of the running IOS to the idle instruction of the UNetLab platform. With a good Idle PC value, the CPU usage should be less than 10% for each instance.

Eve-ng is a platform where you can add Cisco routers images and can do unlimited practice for your certification. In Eve-ng you can practice lab up to CCIE level

We will tell you step by step process of How to add Cisco IOS images to EVE-ng

Content-
1. Supported Dyanamips Images
2. Download Cisco IOS (Dyanamips Images)
3. Importing Cisco IOS image to Eve-ng
4. Calculating Idle-PC

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1. SUPPORTED DYNAMIPS IMAGES

2. Download Cisco IOS (Dynamips images) Eve-ng

Images provided below are strictly for education purpose and are not hosted on networkhunt.com server. We are just indexing the links find on internet for education purpose only.

You can download Cisco IOS (dynamips images) from below links.
1. Cisco Website (Cisco Access required to download images from cisco website.
2. Mega
https://mega.nz/#F!fpxnXIKB!twpa-jzH4ReWZFq5uZENZg

3. Add Cisco IOS (Dynamips images) to Eve-ng

If you are uploading the zip file then install the required package-

Install required packages:
apt-get -y install unzip

Upload the downloaded image to the Eve-ng master node using for example FileZilla or WinSCP. Then login as root using SSH protocol and uncompress it:

Create tmp directory
mkdir abc

Using EVE CLI, uncompress original image. Output file extension must be .image. Be sure you are using properly your source and output filenames.

cd abc
unzip -p c1710-bk9no3r2sy-mz.124-23.bin > c1710-bk9no3r2sy-mz.124-23.image

Move uncompressed image to destination folder:
mv c1710-bk9no3r2sy-mz.124-23.image /opt/unetlab/addons/dynamips/

Clean and fix permissions:
cd
rm -rf abc
/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions

4. CALCULATING IDLE PC

If an unsupported image is added to the UNetLab platform, an Idle PC value must be identified. Start a Dynamips instance with basic configuration:

dynamips -P 1700 -t 1710 /opt/unetlab/addons/dynamips/c1710-bk9no3r2sy-mz.124-23.image

CPU usage is very high, a whole CPU for each instance:

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 3521 root      20   0  412236 125408 109904 S 99.5 25.4   3:27.82 dynamips

Wait for the following line on the console:

Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? [yes/no]:

Exit from initial configuration dialog, and quit to get the con0 prompt:

Router con0 is now available

Press RETURN to get started.

After few more seconds press CTRL + ] then i. Dynamips will show suggested Idle PC values:

Please wait while gathering statistics...
Done. Suggested idling PC:
   0x80369ac4 (count=35)
   0x8023afac (count=51)
   0x8023b008 (count=30)
   0x8023b050 (count=27)
   0x803637a0 (count=38)
   0x80363984 (count=20)
   0x80363ccc (count=28)
   0x80363d48 (count=28)
   0x80363d78 (count=74)
   0x803645d0 (count=76)
Restart the emulator with "--idle-pc=0x80369ac4" (for example)

Select one and restart dynamips with the IDle PC value:

dynamips -P 1700 -t 1710 --idle-pc 0x80369ac4 /opt/unetlab/addons/dynamips/c1710-bk9no3r2sy-mz.124-23.image

If CPU usage is lower, then a good Idle PC value has been found:

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 3598 root      20   0  346700 125328 109828 S  5.3 25.3   0:03.98 dynamips

Usually the highest value of IDLE PC will best for your CPU. In the calculation above it is 76. Copy value of IDLE PC to the notepad and we can start test best value fit for your Dynamips node.

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
 3598 root      20   0  346700 125328 109828 S  5.3 25.3   0:03.98 dynamips