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I’m going to use the 10.0.0.0 /24 network for this demonstration. This will become the IP address of our host machine in the virtual environment so make sure its on the same subnet as your router. sudo chown $(id -un):$(id -gn) /dev/tap*ħ55 means the owner has read, write and execute permissions on the file but everyone else should only have rights to read and run. Now change the ownership of the tap0 interface to your login name and modify the permissions on all the tap interfaces to 755. Hit up Command + Space, type “terminal” and enter this: sudo /Applications/GNS3.app/Contents/MacOS/GNS3 If you’re coming from a windows background, this is tantamount to choosing “ Run as Administrator“. But Dynamips can’t do its dirty work running as you! It needs to be root. We’re going to need to start GNS3 as root because Dynanips is going to try to create the tap0 interface on your Host machine. Get GNS3Īfter you’ve installed GNS3 on your Mac, we can drag in your Windows XP virtual machine.Ĭheck this out: Configure the VirtualBox Host IP This will become the glue that binds your host and guest machines to GNS3.

VirtualBox comes with its own virtual adapter called vboxnet but in my experience it doesn’t work as realiably as tuntap.ĭownload tuntap and double click the installer. It mounts a series of virtual adapters called tun0, tun1 and so on under/dev on your file system. The next item we need is something called tuntap. You might want to rename it something simple like “Windows XP” and crank the video memory all the way up to 128MB. Now you can double-click it to go to your Settings. Wait a few moments and the VM will pop into the appliance list. You can also import it from within VirtualBox by pressing Command + i and browsing to the OVA file.Ĭlick Continue, verify the settings and choose Import. Then double click the file to import the appliance into Virtualbox. It’s 1GB in size.ĭouble click the ZIP and extract the.

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Then pick Virtualbox for Mac from the next dropdown and download the entire zip archive. Go to and select IE6 on XP in the first dropdown box.

Thankfully, we don’t care about Internet Explorer 6 but we can still use the Virtual Machine to play inside our GNS3 sandbox. The Internet Explorer team is actually making a complete fully functional version of Windows XP available for web developers so they can test stuff on the worst browser ever introduced to mankind: Internet Explorer 6. Just keep all the defaults and breeze through the wizard to the finish line. Download the application for Mac and kick open the DMG. Once you have VirtualBox installed, it’s just a matter of double clicking the appliance and importing it.įirst up, we need to get Virtualbox.

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And not only that, we’re going to download a prepackaged Windows XP virtual machine so there’s no need to convert the ISO to a virtual machine file – it’s already done for you. So today I’m going to show you an easier way to legally get Windows XP. You have to extract files and rename stuff and delve into folders… it’s not fun. There’s actually nothing wrong with the trick but to be honest: it’s laborious.

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If you follow my blog then you might remember the trick on how to legally download Windows XP for free. The first thing we need to do is get Windows XP.

Connect your Windows XP guest OS to GNS3Īlright let’s jump right in.

Connect the Host OS (your Mac) to a GNS3 router.

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Legally download a complete Windows XP appliance for free.

In this guide, you’re going to learn how to: Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have a Windows virtual machine interacting with your virtual environment in GNS3? Then you could do all kinds of things such as create a DHCP server on your router to hand out IP addresses to the host or config access-control list and watch how packets are discarded at layer 3. It’s one thing to have a brilliant virtual network of Cisco routers and switches but it’s another thing to integrate real host operating systems into the mix.