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Hi all,

I did a few searches for this topic before posting, but didn't find anything.


I've set up a bigip v12 set up in eve-ng. VNC works, telnet does not.

With telnet, I get a weird issue where it overwrites the previous line when using the cursor keys... if anyone could tell me what is happening there, I would be very interested!


So onto my problem:


http://www.eve-ng.net/documentation/how ... d-f5-bigip has instructions at the bottom of the article for "Making F5 working with telnet instead of vnc:"

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cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/bigip-xxxx

rmmod nbd
modprobe nbd max_part=16
/opt/qemu/bin/qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 hda.qcow2
mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt/
sed -e 's/ \(console=tty0 \)\([^c]\)/ \1 console=ttyS0 \2/' -e 's/\(^splashimage.*\)/#\1\nserial --unit=0 --speed=9600\nterminal --timeout=8 console serial\n/' -i /mnt/grub/grub.conf
umount /mnt/
/opt/qemu/bin/qemu-nbd -d /dev/nbd0
rmmod nbd

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I have an issue with the following command, "/opt/qemu/bin/qemu-nbd -c /dev/nbd0 hda.qcow2".

From what I can understand, I'm mounting the qcow2 to the first partition I created, i.e. nbd0.


However, eve-ng does not find hda.qcow2 in the directory, the only files it contains are virtioa.qcow2 & virtiob.qcow2. These are moved there earlier on in the process of getting the bigip set up in eve-ng:

mv virtioa.qcow2 /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/bigip-11.6.0
mv virtiob.qcow2 /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/bigip-11.6.0



I think I am missing something obvious. Please can anyone help me?


Thanks and best wishes,
Heinzford.

Actually VNC is enought to get up management IP and rest to do from GUI

Uldis

Hi Uldis,

Thanks for your reply.

Ideally I would like to configure my lab eve-ng F5 from CLI via a telnet connection. At my work we mainly configure the F5s from CLI.

Any suggestions would be gratefully received.


Best wishes,
Heinzford

Yea i had the same problem as well, gui is nice tough CLI is a must. if you work on an F5s in a scale CLI is the only way btw
If anyone have an idea and made this work it would be great to share

thanks