Fedora Notes

To Do's list after installing Fedora 19

1. Install VLC player

configure yum to use RPMFusion repos.

-download and install:
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

-download and install:
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

-download and install:
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm

-Open a terminal and install VLC
su -c 'yum install vlc'

2. Install Adobe Flash Player

sudo yum install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm -y

sudo rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
sudo yum install flash-plugin -y

To check:

 Source:

 http://fedorasolved.org/

Qemu installation on CentOS 6.4 x64

After a lot of attempts, finally i found a procedure that works for CentOS 6.4.

1. install dependencies (run as root)
yum install ncurses ncurses-devel zlib zlib-devel SDL SDL-devel libpcap libpcap-devel


2.  Download and compile Qemu.

wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/qemu/qemu-0.11.0.tar.gz

extract and go to extracted file folder location, download patch and run.

 wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gns-3/qemu-0.11.0-olive.patch?download

 patch -p1 -i qemu-0.11.0-olive.patch?download

./configure --target-list=i386-softmmu

for x64

./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu

make

make install

 3. Configure Qemu Preferences and Test Settings.

Installing Xdotool on CentOS 6.4 X64

As xdotool is a requirement for GNS3's virtual box to work properly. In Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS it's quite easy to install. Just search xdotool on the Software Manager, click install and that's it.  In CentOS it took time for me to find out the steps which will work, and here are the steps.

1. download and install the latest version of nux dextop

http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el6/x86_64/?C=M;O=D

2. Install xdotool rpm package:

#yum install xdotool

3. Test Settings

Last task is to install Qemu which I will try to figure out next then my GNS3 on CentOS is complete.

Quick Steps in installing GNS3 on CentOS 6.4 x64

1. Login as root and run, (accept all dependencies)

yum install python python-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel libXext-devel gcc-c++ libXrender* PyQt4 PyQt4-devel qt qt-devel qemu-img libvirt

2. Download and extract the latest GNS3 and dynamips at http://www.gns3.net/download/

3. Rename the extracted folder to gns3 inside create a dynamips folder and cut and paste the latest dynamips. Right click and modify  file permission to Execute (check box allow executing file as a program)

4. move the gns3 folder to /opt directory 
   mv gns3 /opt

5. run as root: 
   cd /opt/gns3 
   [root@P5Q gns3]# python gns3

6. Create folder location for images, projects, working directory etc. Test Dynamips,Qemu and Vbox.

Dynamips settings

My GNS3 Preferences

After the installation here are my settings which works fine.

 

Dynamips Settings

Qemu Settings

Virtual Box Settings

 

 

 

 

Qemu Guests

 

 

 

 

 

Images for Qemu and Virtual Box were available for download in http://www.gns3.net/appliances/ saving an ample time preparing your own images.

Installing GNS3 in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS X64

As i have read from several blogs Linux performs a bit better than Windows. Then I started to install variety of Linux OS on my desktop dual booting with Windows 7.

Till I decided to keep my desktop case open and switch the SATA cable manually to my two HD one with Win7/Windows 2003 Server and one HD dedicated to Linux. So far I feel more comfortable with CentOS then later i find out that i could change Ubuntu Unity to the old Gnome Desktop. I decided to stick to Ubuntu as most applications I frequently utilized is easy to install via Ubuntu Software Center.

There are still cases that I could work faster on some Windows application since i just started to learn Linux. I started to keep some notes online as I'm frequently reformatting my hard disk. This is the first one you might find it useful if you want to try GNS3 on Linux.

Installing gns3 in Ubuntu 12.04 lts x64

1. install the following packages:

• ariel@p5q:~$ sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools
• ariel@p5q:~$ sudo apt-get install pyqt4-dev-tools

2. create two folders:

• ariel@p5q:~$ sudo mkdir /opt/gns3
• ariel@p5q:~$ sudo mkdir /opt/gns3/dynamips

3. download the latest version of GNS3 and Dynamips here:

http://www.gns3.net/download/

4. go to download folder and unpack the gn3 files.

• ariel@p5q:~/Downloads$ sudo tar -jxf GNS3-0.8.5-src.tar.bz2

5. move the unpacked file to /opt/gns3 directory

• ariel@p5q:~/Downloads$ sudo mv GNS3-0.8.5-src/* /opt/gns3

6. move the dynamips binary to /opt/gns3/dynamips directory and change the Dynamips binary and make it executable.

• ariel@p5q:~/Downloads$ sudo mv dynamips*.bin /opt/gns3/dynamips
• ariel@p5q:~/Downloads$ sudo chmod +x /opt/gns3/dynamips/dynamips*.bin

7. configure preferences, ios images location and run gns3 as a root

• sudo python gns3

8. to install Qemu download the package for ubuntu x64. A readme.txt Installation procedure is included on the package. Also install the qemu requirements.

sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev libsdl1.2-dev libpcap-dev texinfo autoconf libtool

      9. Install Simulate X11 keyboard/mouse input (xdotool) using Ubuntu     Software Center a requirement to run vbox.

10. To install vbox download the latest version from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads