Support for Juniper's vQFX10000 in vrnetlab

Hello,

Juniper has recently released its vQFX10000 virtual router instance for testing (See https://www.juniper.net/us/en/dm/free-vqfx-trial/). This virtual router instance works in a similar way as the vMX virtual router, with a Router engine (re) and a Path Forward engine (pfe).

The re and pfe virtual images can be downloaded from Juniper’s website in a Vagrant box format or as a VMDK to be used with VMWare or ESXi. Yet, after converting the VMDK image into a QCOW2 file with:

qemu-img convert -f vmdk vqfx10k-re-15.1X53-D60.vmdk -O qcow2 vqfx10k-re-15.1X53-D60.qcow2

I have been able to boot the re and the pfe using the following command line: qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -display curses -machine pc -m 1024 -serial telnet:0.0.0.0:5000,server,nowait -drive if=ide,file=./vqfx10k-re-15.1X53-D60.qcow2

According to documentation and experiment reports for running vQFX10k, the re and pfe VM have the following requirements:

• RE
  • vCPU: 1
  • RAM: 1024 MB
• PFE
  • vCPU: 1
  • RAM: 2048 MB (even down to 1536 MB according to some reports)

For both appliances, using a e1000 virtual NIC is suitable.

Unfortunately, I am not very familiar with vrnetlab’s structure so contributing to a branch to add the virtual appliance is complex, yet, I am more than eager to learn !

Best regards,

Antoine

[plajjan]

Now I have checked connectivity and it’s working A-ok.

Here’s a ping to a XR router and it works, yay! 😄

root@vqfx-re# run ping 192.168.2.2
PING 192.168.2.2 (192.168.2.2): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=9.450 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=8.816 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=11.138 ms

Closing issue.

[mudassar7777]

@plajjan can you pl share vqfx images. i m unable to download from juniper