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This is a step by step guide on adding FortiGate to GNS3 where then you can use it as virtual network device, just like an IOS router running on Dynamips. GNS3 1.4.0 running on Linux was used for writing of this document.

Sep 18, 2014. Fortinet vm available in Xen, HyperV, KVM version too. FortiGate VM includes a limited embedded 15-day trial license if you run in VMWare Workstation and 75 days in ESXi that supports: • 1 CPU maximum • 1024 MB memory maximum. -open VMWare Workstation and click File/Open FortiGate-VM64.ovf. Mar 23, 2015. Technical support is not included. The trial period begins the first time you start FortiGate VM. After the trial license expires, functionality is disabled until you upload a license file. Before you can upload the KVM image into VIRL we need to create a new custom Subtype. A custom Subtype allows you define. Configuration Wizard Stuck (500) Internal Server Error (500) Internal Server Error during additional web server installation '0 discovered links mapped' in ConnectNow.

Preparation

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  1. Get FortiGate VM. There's a 15 days demo available on the Fortinet site after registration. The required file's name will be something like this: FGT_VM64_KVM-<version>-FORTINET.out.kvm.zip
    Make sure you download the KVM version; after extracting the archive, you should have a file named “fortios.qcow2”.

  2. FortiGate requires a 2nd hard disk; create an empty one by entering this command in terminal:
    qemu-img create -f qcow2 fortigate_30g.qcow2 30G

  3. Upload the images to you GNS3 VM (select Qemu as file type):

Creating the VM

  1. In GNS3, go to Edit → Preferences → Qemu VMs, then click on New.
  2. In the appearing window, select your GNS3 VM. Click on Next.
  3. Leave the VM type on Default. Click on Next.
  4. Enter a name (e.g. FortiGate 5.2.5) for your device. Click on Next.
  5. Change RAM to 1024 MB. Click on Next.
  6. Select 'fortios.qcow2' from the disk image list (i.e. not the empty file you created before). Click on Finish.

Setting VM parameters

FortiGate cannot be started right after creating the VM. Select the FortiGate VM from your Qemu VMs, then click on Edit. Change the following parameters on each tab:

General settings

  • Change category to 'Security devices'
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HDD

  • Change HDA's interface to 'virtio'.
  • Add 'fortigate_30g.qcow2' to HDB's disk image. Change the disk interface to 'virtio' as well.

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Network

  • Change the number of adapters to 10.
  • Change type to 'Paravirtualized Network I/O (virtio-net-pci)'.
  • Change name format to 'Port{port1}'

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Screenshots

This is how it should look like:

Get your VM working

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To test the VM, I created a simple topology with two Dynamips IOS devices:

Interface settings and ping tests can be found here. Note: for successful ping tests, you have to enable ping on port2 too ('set allowaccess ping').