Re: Appliance Vs Software based routers

[Greg Whynott <Greg.Whynott () oicr on ca>]

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:daryl () 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 <laurens () 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.