Deploying Cisco VIRL on VMware Workstation – Caveats

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 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....

December 3, 2014 · Myles Gray