Hi, First off, great job on GNS3! It is a great solution which was instrumental in helping me pass the CCNA and CCNA Security. I am excitedly awaiting v1.0...
So here's my issue, and I've dug through all the boards and posts that I could find, but to no avail. I've been playing with ubuntu 14.04 (same issue exists in 13.10) and Qemu 1.7. I successfully added the ppa to 14.04. (I pointed the ppa config from trusty back to saucy...worked like a charm) I then installed qemu, vpcs, dynamips, gns3. All worked with no issues.
No issues with routers (7200 or 3725). They function without any issues.
Here is where the problem comes in. I configured my ASA (8.4) as I did in my 12.04 install, which is running qemu 0.11. I add the ASA to my topo and connect it to a switch (as recommended in several posts, single int or all ints same result). When I start the device and start up the console window, I get the startup messages, but it normally hangs around Uncompressing initrd. (no change after several hours...)
Looking at the command generated by qemuwrapper.py (ps aux | grep qemu) I can copy the command, kill the current process, paste the command (add "s around the -append parms), hit enter and relaunch the console in gns3 and the ASA starts with no issue and is fully functional. But no I have the qemu process running outside of gns3 control. While workable, it's not a great solution.
I also ran the same scenario in 13.10. Unfortunately with 13.10 you must compile qemu 1.7 from source. Not a huge deal, but time consuming. My results with the 13.10 system were exactly the same. The ASA hangs at uncompressing initrd. But if I kill the qemu process and relaunch the exact same command, I can reopen the console in gns3 and the ASA works like a charm.
Has anyone else run into this situation and come up with a solution?
*** Side note: my first impressions with 14.04 are great. It was a bit unstable a couple of weeks ago, but most of those problems have been addressed. Also the performance is much better than my 12.04 system.
Thanks! Richard
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