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I see you have placeholders for juniper vmx vpfe / vre. The latest versions of these from juniper come with 3 vmdk files or 3 img files (kvm) for the routing engine. How would I convert them for use in eve-ng? I have tried to cat the disks and then convert to qcow2 as a single image, but the vre boots up as olive, and does not recognize commands like 'show chassis fpc' or see the vpfe. Have you tested this?

Thanks

Same problem. Does anybody know how to run VMX 16 (vfp and vcp)?

1. Download vmx (i am using vmx-bundle-15.1F6.9.tgz in this example)
2. create 2 directories /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/
vmxvcp-15.1F6.9
vmxvfp-15.1F6.9
3. copy vmx-bundle-15.1F6.9.tgz to /tmp directory
4. untar vmx-bundle-15.1F6.9.tgz
5. copy junos-vmx-x86-64-15.1F6.9.qcow2, vmxhdd.img, metadata-usb-re.img from images directory to vmxvcp-15.1F6.9 directory
6. copy vFPC-20160617.img from images directory to vmxvfp-15.1F6.9 directory
7. rename junos-vmx-x86-64-15.1F6.9.qcow2 --> hda.qcow2
convert vmxhdd.img --> hdb.qcow2
convert metadata-usb-re.img --> hdc.qcow2
8. convert vFPC-20160617.img --> hda.qcow2
9 fix permissions

ok done...
1. on topology --> em0/fxp0 connect to em0/fxp0, em1/int connect to em1/int
2. em2/ge-0/0/0 connect to bla bla bla

Thanks for the reply and info. I will try this tonight

thanks mcat84. what you suggested works perfectly and the metadata is loaded correctly and the device shows up as vmx rather than olive. I tried with the latest version 17.1R1.8 and the only thing I had to do was to increase the RAM of the default VFP to 8192 in order to bring it properly online. did a very basis test of bringing up an ISIS adjacency with another vMX and this worked fine, so thanks for your help!

root> show version | match "model|Junos:"
Model: vmx
Junos: 17.1R1.8

root> show chassis fpc | match online
0 Online Testing 71 0 54 36 17 2048 7 0

root> show chassis fpc pic-status
Slot 0 Online Virtual FPC
PIC 0 Online Virtual

root> show route protocol isis | match 1.1.1
1.1.1.2/32 *[IS-IS/18] 00:02:11, metric 100

root> ping 1.1.1.2 source 1.1.1.3
PING 1.1.1.2 (1.1.1.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 1.1.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=12.606 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=42.439 ms
64 bytes from 1.1.1.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=356.221 ms


procedure :

download kvm version of vmx from juniper. unzip the tgz file to get access to the 'images' folders

root@eve-ng:~/vmx-kvm# tar -xvf vmx-bundle-17.1R1.8.tgz

make directories to store the disk files

root@eve-ng:~/vmx-kvm/vmx-17.1R1.8/images# mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vmxvcp-17.1R1.8
root@eve-ng:~/vmx-kvm/vmx-17.1R1.8/images# mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vmxvfp-17.1R1.8

copy the below images to the correct folders and convert / rename

root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vmxvfp-17.1R1.8# /opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 vFPC-20170216.img hda.qcow2
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vmxvcp-17.1R1.8# mv junos-vmx-x86-64-17.1R1.8.qcow2 hda.qcow2
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vmxvcp-17.1R1.8# /opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 vmxhdd.img hdb.qcow2
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vmxvcp-17.1R1.8# /opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 metadata-usb-re.img hdc.qcow2

fix permissions

root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vmxvcp-17.1R1.8# /opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions
root@eve-ng:/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vmxvfp-17.1R1.8# /opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions