This is the GNS3 server repository.
The GNS3 server manages emulators such as Dynamips, VirtualBox or Qemu/KVM. Clients like the GNS3 GUI controls the server using a JSON-RPC API over Websockets.
You will need the GNS3 GUI (gns3-gui repository) to control the server.
The following instructions have been tested with Ubuntu and Mint. You must be connected to the Internet in order to install the dependencies.
Dependencies:
- Python 3.3 or above
- Setuptools
- PyZMQ library
- Netifaces library
- Tornado
- Jsonschema
The following commands will install some of these dependencies:
sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python3-zmq
sudo apt-get install python3-netifaces
Finally these commands will install the server as well as the rest of the dependencies:
cd gns3-server-master
sudo python3 setup.py install
gns3server
Please use our all-in-one installer.
Please use our DMG package for a simple installation.
If you want to test the current git version or contribute to the project.
You can follow this instructions with virtualenwrapper: http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/ and homebrew: http://brew.sh/.
brew install python3
mkvirtualenv gns3-server --python=/usr/local/bin/python3.4
python3 setup.py install
gns3server