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Installing Sonic Network Switch in EVE-NG


Installing Sonic Network Switch on EVE-NG

Latest eve-ng has template for sonic switch., at path /opt/unetlab/html/templates/intel/sonicsw.yml

If you do not have template in this folder you can download one and paste in the folder path as above

https://github.com/ercintorun/MsSonicEveNG/blob/main/mssonic.yml

I assume you already have template in folder as mentioned above, with name sonicsw.yml

Create a folder at below path with version number that you will download in the next step

/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/sonicsw-210216

Download the sonic switch image from below link

https://sonic.software/

Upload eve-ng at this path /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/sonicsw-210216/

Navigate to the above path and gunzip the image

gunzip /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/sonicsw-210216/sonic-vs.img.gz

after this you get the file with name sonic-vs.img

now change the the file name to virtioa.qcow2, with below command

mv /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/sonicsw-210216/sonic-vs.img /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/sonicsw-210216/virtioa.qcow2

fix the permission with below command

/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions

And you are good to go now

Below is the image of my sonic switch installed with above steps, and I was able to make the lab as can be seen in the same snapshot



Default username and password for Sonic switch is as below

SONiC Login prompt. Use username admin and password YourPaSsWoRd to login for the first time.

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