How exciting - GNS3 0.8.3 released the day I bring my new OSX Lion Server home!
So I get to test an install from scratch on Lion!
Notes:
1. I notice in the Mac install, the baseconfig.txt and baseconfig_sw.txt don't get copied to the default Projects directory as they do in the Windows install. Would be nice if they did.
2. When I add a host (cloud) and connect the en0 or en1 interfaces to a router, I get a
206-unable to create generic ethernet NIO
error. I suspect it has something to do with permissions, if anyone has any ideas on how to fix this, I'd love to know, and it would be good to be able to fix it as part of the install.
3. I set my terminal Settings to iTerm (Mac OS x) - but got this when I tried to console to a router:
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4. I then set my terminal settings to Terminal (Mac OS X) - and got this:
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5. I added a .bin to my images - I thought that somewhere in the development we "uncompressed" these images for the user - I can't find where this is done. What am I missing?
Suggestions:
The default terminal settings need some work for OS X (Lion)
Idle PC window now has some help - nice. But it also needs a [Try Again] button, I don't know, but I'm having a hard time finding an idle-pc on my favourite 3725 image. Sometimes I get three possible values, sometimes up to 5 - but none with an *. In the end I tried two approaches:
1. Manually setting the idle-pc with values that I know work well on my MacBook Pro (2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo). They left the %CPU on my new Mac Mini Server (2 GHz Intel Core i7) at 100% - so now I can say definitively that a good idle-pc on on platform does not necessary make a good idle-pc on another.
2. In desperation, I started choosing any of the idle-pc values that were suggested (without a *) and notices that they nearly all dropped the CPU to below 10% anyway.
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