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iancalderbank · 11-10-2014

I have got my CML running after getting vmware admins to hack the VMX file as per the documentation. this was painful and should not be necessary. I have added two images via the uwm, a CSR1000V qcow image and an IOS-XRv vmx image. these show as impo...

iancalderbank · 11-04-2014

I am evaluating CML for my customer, a large financial. I have trouble installing CML at the first stage, I get an error from within the CML VM when it boots up into the gui "KVM not present, please enable VT-X extensions and restart". I have tried i...

iancalderbank · 06-20-2011

HiI've inherited a project building an internet connectivity solution for a large corporate. It has its own AS and its own PI space. They are putting in 100Mbit connections from 5 different Tier1's , taking full internet routing from each. Cisco ASR1...

iancalderbank · 06-23-2015

I didn't go down the TAC route. Fortunately I have a tame vmware genius to hand (lead engineer for the vmware estate for the large financial that I work for), he hacked at the CML vm files until they worked . I don't fully understand what he did (in ...

iancalderbank · 06-23-2015

HiI am afraid we gave up on CML. Found it too buggy and awkward to use and not worth it.I now have a large ESX host with router VM's (IOS-XE, IOS-XR, regular IOS, these can all be had from CCO), each installed into its own VM. I then use regular vmwa...

iancalderbank · 11-12-2014

that sorted it for the XR-V I have a running XR-V node in CML. I don't understand why this is not a default, this is really not an intuitive product at this stage. I've just loaded one and one only XR-V image - why would I not want it associated by d...

iancalderbank · 11-05-2014

yes I can see that in the documentation now. Before I had no idea what that was talking about (I am not a vmware expert as I said!). I will try that - however getting access to the root level of the host to edit the file is not going to be easy, I j...

iancalderbank · 02-07-2014

this is an evil bug. I have a 4510/sup8E that just suddenly stopped being a layer 3 switch, tac are pointing me to this bug CSCuj73571. My box fails to arp properly on SVI interfaces - which effectively makes it useless for its main functionality! a...

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