I assume the ASA's don't run natively on VMware or Xen, I assume you have to 
use something like GNS3.  I think that would be fine for testing, but in real 
world production running an ASA on GNS3 under an another OS seems like a bad 
idea.  I hope Cisco will come out with Virtual Appliances for some of their 
products like they did for the Nexus 1000V.

-Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: Daryl G. Jurbala [mailto:da...@introspect.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2010 10:54 AM
To: Xavier Beaudouin
Cc: nanog
Subject: Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers

On Aug 4, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Xavier Beaudouin wrote:

> 
> Le 4 août 2010 à 15:14, Mirko Maffioli a écrit :
> 
>> 2010/7/25 Laurens Vets <laur...@daemon.be>:
>>> 
>>> Cisco PIX: no, Cisco ASA: yes. It even runs under VMware...  It's however
>>> very hackish... :)
>> 
>> Cisco ASA under VMware?? :|
> 
> CiscoASA is based on x86, there is no reasons you cannot run this into VMWare 
> or Xen...

If that were the only qualification, PIX builds for the 515s would run under 
VMWare or XEN as well.  Maybe they do, but I've never seen it.

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