Comments on: GNS3 : How to emulate ASA in Windows 7

By: Bonnie Mercurio

Bonnie Mercurio — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:13:36 +0000

Spot on with this write-up, I truly think this website needs much more consideration. I’ll probably be again to read much more, thanks for that info.

By: Steve Rand

Steve Rand — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:25:19 +0000

@Christian: Just hit enter, there is no password set.

@delscarlett: Change the NIC of the ASA until it works. I went from e1000 to pcnet and that worked.

Personally, i’ve been stuck with not being able to write to the Qemu HDD (ASA FLASH) since 0.8x came out and haven’t found a solution that works. =-/

By: delscarlett

delscarlett — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:23:42 +0000

Has anyone been able to really solve the cannot get the channel issue,i have checked the hacki forum and download the stuffs from the 4shared links and tried all that stuff,please if you have kindle assit us with an how and why we get the error.

By: Christian

Christian — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:10:42 +0000

@pika
I got the ciscoasa prompt but it required a password when entering the privileged console

By: bhushan

bhushan — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:16:59 +0000

200-At least a module and a command must be specified

i m getting above error please help me i m working on this from last 6 hr but no sucess ..

By: gora

gora — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:02:18 +0000

some time am getting below prompt

”

This is your first boot, please wait about 1 min and then type the following commands:
cd /mnt/disk0
/mnt/disk0/lina_monitor

Please note to use the following command under ASA to save your configs:
copy run disk0:/.private/startup-config
”
can any one explain why its happening

thanks in advance

By: gora

gora — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:38:33 +0000

@pika
Its done I get the prompt ciscoasa>
lets see further ..
Step 4 is important
as I get prompt after doing same and reload the GNS
Thanks mike..

By: Mukundan

Mukundan — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 09:07:35 +0000

Still I am getting empty console. There is no # symbol in the console Please help me to solve

By: pika

pika — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 08:10:12 +0000

For those having issues running ASA in Windows 7. Here it is the solution. Spent many hours going through several forums to figure this out!

1. Download “ASA IOS.RAR” from 4share.com
http://search.4shared.com/q/1/ASA%20IOS.rar
2. extract two files: asa802-k8.initrd.gz and sa802-k8.kernel. do not further extract or modify these files.
3. In GNS3(v0.7.4)->QEUM–>ASA SPECIFIC SETTINGS point to the above files. use all other default settings.
4. In QUEM General Settings->IP/HOST BINDING and EXTERNAL QUEMWRAPPER change “localhost” to 127.0.0.1

By: still_trying

still_trying — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:05:27 +0000

Has anyone ever figured out the answer to Phil’s last post? I’m having the same problem. I’m using GNS3 0.7.4. I installed the kernel and the initrd.gz files in their respective places and followed various installation paths ultimately ending on this forum and page. I’m using Windows 7. I even implanted the vmlinuz file in it’s respective place as well (although, it has the same distinction as the kernel file) and that didn’t work at all. The furthest that I have gotten was with the asa802.k8.initrd.gz and asa802-k8.kernel files in the respective places within the preferences tab and after I start the ASA that I have put in the environment and try to execute the console, the console comes up and nothing happens. When I press enter (humoring myself) the cursor just hops to the next line (and so on). Unlike Phil, I don’t have to initiate the task manager to exit but I’m doing everything as instructed and nothing seems to be working. Any ansers on this matter? Could it be that I just have some corrupt files?