
If I look at my list of various devices, notice that if I hover on here, I get Browse all devices.

I’m going to say “Yes” to the User Account Control. I’m going to right‑click on GNS3 and run it as administrator. I could double‑click this and GNS3 would launch just fine, but you’re going to have a lot of problems if you do it that way, because a lot of the stuff it needs to be able to do, it won’t be permitted unless you do this. I’ll minimize the screen and launch GNS3. I’m going to leave it Powered Off, because that’s how it needs to be. You’ll notice that it’s Powered Off right now. This is the one that I want to coordinate and bring into GNS3. You’ll notice I have one here that’s name is Windows 7 Ultimate X64. This is not a blog about how to actually build a client inside virtual box.

Now, I have already built the virtual box. But in this case, we’re actually going to bring in a real client. You can do that, if all you want to do is generate pings. I wanted to show you how to connect your GNS3 environment to a virtual box, in this case, Oracle’s VM Virtual Box product because it’s nicely aligned with GNS3, so they work well together.īut if you’re a fan of GNS3 like I am, take a look because it’s kind of cool to expand on your network environment to bring in actual, what do you want to call them, clients that have functionality of a client as opposed to just taking a router and configuring it as an endpoint. Part 3 – Connect your Virtual Machine in GNS3 to the Internet using Windows 8 Part 2 – Connect GNS3 to a Valid External Host in Windows 8


Part 1 – Connect Your GNS3 Environment to VM VirtualBox In this video post, I’ll show how to connect a GNS3 environment to an Oracle Virtual Box using Windows 8 to expand on your network environment to bring in actual clients.Ĭisco CCNA and C ompTIA Network + Instructor Video – How to Connect Your GNS3 Environment to a Virtual Box in Windows 8.
