Ahmet YAKUPOGLU
Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance
How to emulate Adaptive Security Appliance ASA
This tutorial is for learning purposes only to get familiar with Security Appliance Configurations and commands.
In this detailed tutorial, I will show you how you can emulate Cisco ASA using Qemu & GNS3.
To setup environment you need to download:
•GNS3 Version: v0.7.3 and newer recommended
•asa802-k8.initrd.gz
•asa802-k8.kernel
•Qemu Version: 0.11.0
Note: I will NOT provide any images
Start GNS3 then Edit –> Preferences –>Qemu –>ASA
Type
Identifier name: ASA803 (any name)
Set path for asa802-k8.initrd.gz and asa802-k8.kernel
and Save setting
Add ASA firewall to project
Start ASA by Right clicking on ASA and click start
Login to console and start configuring ASA by Right clicking on ASA and click console
For your first boot; please wait about 1 min and then type the following commands:
cd /mnt/disk0
/mnt/disk0/lina_monitor
Note: in order to save ASA configuration
1)
ciscoasa#copy running-config disk0:/.private/running-config
2)
ciscoasa# copy disk0:/.private/running-config disk0:/.private/startup-config
3)
ciscoasa#config t
ciscoasa#boot config disk0:/.private/startup-config
ciscoasa#exit
ciscoasa#
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