You’re Finished / What’s Next?Īt this point the installation is finished.

DNS Domain Name: anything you want (I leave default)Īfter hitting enter, the setup wizard will kick you out.

Hostname: anything you want (I leave default).

This will restart the wizard and allow you to change root’s password.

Hold CTRL and press C, become root sudo -i When you are greeted with the wizard to enter a root password, don’t! You will be presented with a configuration wizard. Once you’re SSH’d into the VM become root, grab the installation script, update the package manager and upgrade current packages.Ĭonnect to it again via the built in SSH. Use the built-in SSH feature to connect to the VM’s console. Once your VM is provisioned it will automatically be started. Wait for your VM to be provisioned, this could a minute or two. Size: This is going to be determined by you on how you intend to use the VM for labbing.Image: the image name we created earlier.Show images from: Your new project name.

Boot Disk: Choose the image we created from the cloud shell.

Just to get started I choose “n2-standard-4”. You cannot change this unless you power-off your VM.

Machine Type: This is going to depend on what you need for labbing.

Series: Must choose “Intel Cascade Lake” or “Intel Skylake”.

Region: Choose the region nearest you (cannot change).

Name: Anything you want (cannot change).

Create The New VM instaceĬlick on the “Create” button in the VM instances frame in the center of the screen. :~ (test-305418)$ gcloud compute images create nested-virt-ubuntu -source-image-project=ubuntu-os-cloud -source-image-family=ubuntu-1604-lts -licenses=' (It should have your project name in the command prompt.)Įnter the command: (this is 1 long command)

Make sure your Cloud Shell session is set to your newly created project. Once the Compute Engine is ready, click on the “Launch Cloud Shell” icon (in the upper right). Navigate to: Compute Engine –> VM instances and switch to your new Project from the upper left hand drop down. This is more than enough to test this process and practice a bunch of labs. If this is your first time Google will give you a $300 free credit. You can use your existing Google or Gmail account or create a new account for google cloud. Create a new VM instance using the new image.Create the nested virtualization Ubuntu VM image.Login to Google Cloud using your existing Google account or create a new account.I released a video series on Network Collective covering this topic and other EVE-NG Tips and Tricks. Thanks to the EVE-NG development team this process can be completed in just 15 minutes. This is an update from the content I released back in 2018.

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