Hi,

I have installed GNS ver3-0.7RC1 and loaded ASA ver 8.0(5) image into Preferences - Qemu - Qemu- Binary settings.

But whenever I tried to use ASA, a message apperas saying that "Please configure a default ASA kernal"

How to configure this?

Also Do I need to specify "Path to Qemu(not used for PIX)" ? By default "." is present.

Regards,
D.M.Gore

This could help you:

http://blog.gns3.net/2009/12/how-to-emulate-cisco-asa/

Cheers,

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Hi Jeremy,

When I tried I got the messange saying "please configure defult ASA initrd. Can you please send me a document how to configure ASA it for Vista.

Infact I went through the url you given in this tread but it doest have method the extract the image to make initrd and i believe it for linux OS.

thanks in advance.

You have to extract the initrd from the ASA 8 image.. see the unpacker readme.txt here http://www.gns3.net/download

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I have never succeeded to unpack ASA8 image. unpack.exe always shows error msg.
Are there any restrictions Windows version? I've tested XP, 2003 server, it's same.

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'gzip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "unpack.py", line 208, in <module>
File "unpack.py", line 146, in unpackASA8
File "shutil.pyo", line 199, in move
File "shutil.pyo", line 91, in copy2
File "shutil.pyo", line 46, in copyfile
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\docume~1\\abcde\\locals~1\\temp\\tm
pu1gewx\\vmlinuz'

yb3810hq,

Same thing happens to me on windows 7!!!!

I tried the version ASA802 and this errors come up. With version 804, this shows up:

C:\Unpack>unpack.exe --format ASA8 asa804-k8.bin
Couldn't find any ZIP header in asa804-k8.bin

hi,

I am preparing for ccie security, its going to be my 2nd attempt, i am unable to configure ASA in GNS uptill now.

there is no accurate guide how to configure it in windows 2003 server or any windows version. i tried a lot but just in vain. even i tried to extract the image using upacker i get the following error
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Unpack-0.1_win\Unpack>unpack.exe
--format ASA8 asa804-k8.bin
Couldn't find any ZIP header in asa804-k8.bin

its a request please if any one knows about this issue and how to to configure it completely in GNS3 using windows do let me know.

My id is [email protected]



Regards

Hi All,

The binary image of the ASA contains the zip that you need. The proble there is with windows you cannot go thru the file to search the whole file in hex where the working zip file is. Jeremy described how to do this in linux, and if you can simulate what he is doing into windows please post it.

Here are the summary of his steps:
1. Create a hex dump
2. search the hexdump with this header "1f 8b 08 00 1d" (I dont know if it is generic for zip files im not a linux guru) this is via grep command
3. Verify the binary file size
4. Find out where you can start extracting the correct zip file
5. Extract the working zip file
6. Decompress
7. create a directory where we can extract the zip file
8. Extract the archive
9. then copy the linux kernel to your previous directory.


The binary image doesn't work in a decompression media like winrar or winzip archiver. The working zip file is hidden that's why Jeremy described how to look for it and how to extract it. To bad for us we are in windows and he tested it in linux.


Maybe the TODO list of jeremy will be done soonest. Lets pray!

Hi Jeremy,

I think the unpack.exe have some bug on windows, I have issue same as yb3810hq. I think the unpack.exe will refer to gzip as is and not gzip.exe it also creates a directory with double back slash \\ which is not a windows directory.

I think I'm doing something wrong. Please help. I'm on windows vista

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'gzip' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
The system cannot find the file specified.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "unpack.py", line 208, in <module>
File "unpack.py", line 146, in unpackASA8
File "shutil.pyo", line 199, in move
File "shutil.pyo", line 91, in copy2
File "shutil.pyo", line 46, in copyfile
IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'c:\\users\\mypc\\appdata\\local\\temp\\tm
pu1gewx\\vmlinuz'


Thanks a bunch

Solve the unpack bug on windows.......


The unpack worked for me on windows XP, after I copied "gzip.exe" file from the unpack folder to C:\WINDOWS\system32........