GNS is just a front end for dynamips/qemu. ASA will run under qemu without the use of extra wrappers/tools. it will run natively under vmware too. ASA is basically an application running above a linux kernel. I forget what the internal name is, lisa or similar…
-g On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:56 AM, Mike Walter wrote: > 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. >
