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 by1
- 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
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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