Now, you can create topologies with the new FortiGate appliance. Post these steps, you will see FortiGate Firewall in the GNS3 toolbar. Our next step would be initial configuration to get the GUI access as we have completed all the steps of FortiGate VM installation in GNS3. The GNS3 will upload a copy of that file to the GNS3 VM.Īfter the previous step, a new window will appear then click Finish to complete the appliance addition. You will see the Default Username and Password. Select the FortiGate VM and click “ Next”.Īfter you click Next, a confirmation message will be displayed. The FortiGate version you have downloaded in your system will be displayed in green color here. In this window, the list of FortiGate Firewall KVM image versions with extension. Click Next > In Qemu Settings click Next. Since we have already selected GNS3 VM to run FortiGate, the other two options are not highlighted. Next in Appliances Server Window, click to expand on Firewalls and then select FortiGate > Click Install to continue. In New Template window we will Choose “ Install an appliance from the GNS3 server (recommended)” and click on Next. We will now click on “+New Template” which will open in a new window. If not, then you must enable Virtualization and verify that it is true.Īfter opening GNS3, we will Configure GNS3 VM Server. If you are curious about the installation of GNS3 VM in VMware Workstation, then you can contact us.Īfter successful installation of GNS3 VM, we will check the KVM support if it is available or not. In my case, I installed GNS3 2.2.5 version on my laptop, and the same GNS3 VM version 2.2.5 was installed in VMware Workstation. When you are trying to install FortiGate Firewall in GNS3 then you must ensure one thing that the GNS3 software version must be the same as the GNS3 VM version. So why not start with the installation of the FortiGate Firewall in GNS3? The easiest way of installation in a limited specification of a machine has described below.Īll the steps are to be followed in the right order and not even one step should be missed.

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