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Home » Blog » Software » Deploying Cisco VIRL on VMware Workstation – Caveats

Deploying Cisco VIRL on VMware Workstation – Caveats

03/12/2014 by Myles Gray 1 Comment

I recently tried to deploy Cisco VIRL on VMWare Workstation 10 – the install instructions are for v8 – there are a few differences I noted.

  • It doesn’t account for the host-only network installed by default so increment all vmnets by 1

VMNet configuration VMware Workstation 10

  • The labelling for VT-x/EPT has changed, it now lives under Settings->Hardware->Processors->Virtualisation engine->Preferred mode:
  • You need to explicitly select Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI mode

Expose VT-x/EPT to VM in Workstation

After this entering the sudo kvm-ok command in the VIRL CLI still output KVM acceleration can NOT be used.

I needed to edit the .vmx file directly and add/change these lines:

monitor.virtual_mmu = "hardware"
monitor.virtual_exec = "hardware"
vhv.enable = "TRUE"
monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"

After that booting into VIRL and running sudo kvm-ok output KVM acceleration can be used.

Once this was overcome configuration went quite smoothly and was fairly simple to setup, be sure to follow the tutorials once you are ready to go.

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Filed Under: Software, Virtualisation Tagged With: cisco, lab, VIRL, vmware

About Myles Gray

Hi! I'm Myles, and I'm a Dev Advocate at VMware. Focused primarily on content generation, product enablement and feedback from customers and field to engineering.

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