How to Install EVE-NG on VMware Work Station for LAB setup.

Install EVE-NG for Network LAB
#eveng #network #lab #vmwareworkstation

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1. Install work Station
2. Download your desirable image
tar.gz
3. Using WinSCP or FileZilla SSH (TCP 22) to your EVE and upload downloaded image to the
location: /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/

4. Using Putty or other telnet client, CLI SSH (TCP 22) to your EVE and go to location:

cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/
5. Unzip your uploaded image file, make sure you are using right name of uploaded image. Example for ubuntu desktop image below.

tar xzvf linux-ubuntu-21.04-desktop.tar.gz
6. Remove raw zipped image file from EVE

rm -f linux-ubuntu-21.04-desktop.tar.gz
7. Fix permissions

/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions


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You have to follow these 8 steps: for ISO Image

Be sure that the distro name has no spaced in the filename!
1- In EVE-NG CLI: Create new image directory:
mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-desktop-20.04/

2- Use WINSCP or FileZilla SFTP or SCP (port 22) to copy distro ISO image into the newly created directory,

path: /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-desktop-20.04

3- From cli go to
cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-desktop-20.04/

4- Rename this distro to cdrom.iso :
mv ubuntu-20.04-desktop-amd64.iso cdrom.iso

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5- Create a new HDD virtioa.qcow2. The example below is HDD 30Gb. The size you can change per your needs.
/opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img create -f qcow2 virtioa.qcow2 30G

6- In EVE-NG LAB environment Create new lab and add newly created Linux-ubuntu-desktop-20.04 node

7- Connect it to your home LAN cloud/internet, this need to get updates from the internet

8- Start node in the lab and do the install of your Linux, customize it as you like, as you have connected it to home LAN and internet this install will be like normal Linux installation.

9- Remove cdrom.iso from opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-desktop-20.04/
cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-desktop-20.04/
rm -f cdrom.iso

Don't forget to run this command at the end otherwise you will lose all configurations.
/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions