I had no luck on starting the ASA image from gns3 it hangs all the time - maybe it is related to the same problem that is mentioned in the previous thread with junOS.

I notes - when i ran ASA and then it seems started, I am able to connect to the port via console but nothing shows.

I tried to look at the process - using "ps -aux | grep qemu-systems" and I god this output

qemu-system-i386 -name ASA1 -m 1024 -hda /dynawork/lab/firewall-test/qemu-flash-drives/ASA1/FLASH -kernel /home/xxx/Downloads/ASA_842/asa842-vmlinuz -initrd /home/xxx/Downloads/ASA_842/asa842-initrd.gz -append -append "ide_generic.probe_mask=0x01 ide_core.chs=0.0:980,16,32 auto nousb console=ttyS0,9600 bigphysarea=65536 ide1=noprobe no-hlt" -device e1000,mac=00:ab:cd:92:52:00,netdev=gns3-0 -netdev socket,id=gns3-0,udp=127.0.0.1:10001,localaddr=127.0.0.1:40000 -device e1000,mac=00:00:ab:f3:77:01 -device e1000,mac=00:00:ab:93:68:02 -device e1000,mac=00:00:ab:e3:03:03 -device e1000,mac=00:00:ab:43:9a:04 -device e1000,mac=00:00:ab:ac:87:05 -serial telnet:127.0.0.1:3001,server,nowait -m 1024 -nographic -cpu coreduo -icount auto -hdachs 980,16,32

Then I see there is double "-append -append" in this command string and that is not working - but if I run this command in a terminal window with only one "-append" I can get the ASA up and running.

btw - I am running Fedora 19 64 bit.

/The Stig

Remove the -append from your ASA configuration (GNS3 automatically inserts this). You may have to re-create your topology or manually edit the net file to correct your existing topology.

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GNS3 0.8.4 running on CentOS 6.5

okay! Thanks - that removed the double -append paramteter.

But I am still not able to start qemu ASA from gns3, it now shows the QEMU output terminal - showing

3 times iPXE and then hangs on Booting from ROM...

Still no problem running et manual from terminal - the ASA runs fine.

Could you post - your setting in the ASA tab ?

/The Stig