
Since we want to import the Cisco IOSvL2 VM, select Cisco IOSvL2 in the Appliances section of the Marketplace, in order to download the cisco-iosvl2.gns3a template file:Īn appliance description is displayed. Select the appliance you want to download. Browse to and click the Marketplace menu item: You can also download the appliance template files from the GNS3 website using a web browser. Cisco VIRL has fantastic images which you can download such as. I also show you how to add Docker containers to your network. How do you build Cisco networks in GNS3 In this video I show you how to download Cisco IOS images (Cisco VIRL images) to run IOSv and IOSvL2 in your GNS3 topologies. (the appliance templates listed in C:\Program Files\GNS3\appliances) Download Cisco IOS images and use in GNS3. (The default installation directory in Windows is C:\Program Files\GNS3) Starting with GNS3 2.2.0, there are appliances included, in the GNS3 installation directory: The process is similar however for other operating systems such as Mac OS and Linux.īefore downloading the appliance from the GNS3 website, download and save the operating system for the appliance in your Downloads directory: In this guide, the Windows operating system is used.

Configure GNS3 to use an additional remote server.How to use applications with the GNS3 Web interface.Install an appliance from the GNS3 Marketplace.This can be a Juniper router, a Huawei router or a Nokia router. Beside Cisco, you can also load other vendor images to practice on their router. Like these steps, you can load any other images to GNS3 Simulator. Here, we have learned How to Install Cisco GNS3 IOS images. And then we will click next to finish our installation.Īfter installing Cisco IOS Image, you will be able to see the router details under router option. In the dropdown list, we will select, “ GT96100-FE” here and then click next. In this step, we will select the network adaptor that we will use. You can set a new value or you can click next to use the default one. There will be a default RAM in this step.

We can give any name to the router here and then click next.

Then, we will change the name of the router. We will select the path where the IOS image is stored on our local PC. In this step, we will select the path of the IOS image to laod it to GNS3. In this window, we will click ”new” to create new router. To do this, we will go Edit/Preferences/IOS routers. In the second step, we will add IOS router to GNS3. Here, we will use c2691 router image for our example.

You can find oen of them and download this image. There are some images that is used for educational purposes on Internet. To use a specific Cisco IOS image, firstly you should find and download it from Internet.
