If everything is setup correctly your terminal window will look like this: SEANs-MacBook-Pro:tmp sean$ socat unix-connect:/tmp/myvbox stdin To install socat on macOS install Homebrew, then use Homebrew to install socatįinally we are going to use socat to get on the serial console of the running NX-OSv device. Instead of clicking on the console, we are going to connect via socat. The Path/Address is a user defined value, for this demonstration I use /tmp/myvbox. Uncheck the Connect to existing pipe/socket so that Virtualbox will create this socket For us. Next, enable the Serial Port, and change the Port Mode to Host Pipe. Next click the Processor tab and change the CPUs to 2. Also make sure the Pointing Device to PS/2 Mouse since a later step requires disabling USB. Cisco also directs users to change the boot order so the Hard Disk always boots first. Enable I/O APIC was already selected in my case. Go to the settings and click the System button at the top. I went ahead and clicked “Do not add a virtual hard disk” since we have to do a special step there. The official Cisco directions say to assign this Type to Linux, Version to Other Linux and to assign 8192MB of memory. Open up Virtualbox and click on the new button: However I will briefly show my setup using the directions Cisco provides. We will go ahead and setup a VM and connect to a CentOS box running Ansible.Ĭisco has detailed directions on their website here. They offer Vagrant box images, OVA, qcow2 and of course a vmdk.
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