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Running vEOS in GNS3

Running vEOS in GNS3

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A few weeks back I posted about my experience using VirtualBox to create running Arista vEOS instances. I loved how VirtualBox made is so easy to create VMs. However it seemed unwieldy and error prone to rely upon the VirtualBox console to attach each vEOS interface to a particular LAN segment. My last post explored using the CLI to create these mappings. I had planned to generate topologies using a script to create the appropriate vboxmanage commands at some later date….

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Create a VirtualBox Arista vEOS image from the command line

Create a VirtualBox Arista vEOS image from the command line

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I’ve wanted to check out Arista EOS for a while, but didn’t have access to the hardware. I recently learned that Arista had made EOS available as a virtual machine. Arista call this vEOS. By installing the free VirtualBox hypervisor I could get vEOS running on my MacBook. It sounded a bit too easy, but to be fair the process is really well documented. Before I go further I should say that I obtained my copy of vEOS from my…

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