What definitely works: use the VM with MSE 5.2.91.0 (which is the one Cisco partner may use for demo purposes). Even it's not supported with WCS 4.2, client tracking works. Should be enough to practise a little bit ...
Stefan. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Anton Vinokurov Gesendet: Dienstag, 21. Dezember 2010 11:46 An: Jason Boyers; Yuri Mecca Cc: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [CCIE Wireless] CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 21, Issue 10 Hi guys, Any appliance firmware is nothing but a shell install script coupled with a tar archive carrying code. The code itself is a Java application. You need to install a fresh CentOS 5 (Linux) x86 operating system onto a VM. Upload a "firmware" file, make executable, and just run. Don't forget to reboot after to reset LD_LIBRARY_PATH. When the Java code (location management application) starts, it looks for certain hardware parameters via dmidecode utility. You have to play around to make it "happy". Any further public disclosure of internals is known as hacking, which violates certain Cisco copyrights and intellectual property. I am not comfortable putting my number at risk, sorry. Regards, Anton Vinokurov CCIE #23134 (R&S), CCDP [email protected] On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:57:15 -0500 Jason Boyers <[email protected]> wrote: > I would be interested in seeing that as well. > Everything I've seen and > tried gave the impression that it could not be done. If it can >(without the special build Dominic mentioned), we're all ears. > > Jason Boyers - CCIE #26024 (Wireless) > Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc. > Mailto: *[email protected] > * > > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Yuri Mecca <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> Hi Anton, >> >> Could you provide the step by step or any guide to virtualize the >>Location Appliance? I try a couple of months but this don't work. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Yuri >> >> ------------------------------ >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected]; >>[email protected] >> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:17:03 +0300 >> >> Subject: Re: [CCIE Wireless] CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 21, Issue 10 >> >> Hi All, >> >> >> >> 2710 Location Appliance virtualization is trivial. >> >> 3310/3350 Mobility Services Engine virtualization is a bit more >>complicated, but also straightforward. >> >> Obviously you need to have a WCS with Location (Plus) license, >>otherwise your Location engines are pretty useless. >> >> All other stuff like DNS, Windows domain (AD), CA, ACS (including >>5.0), WCS can be easily virtualized as well. >> >> >> >> Virtualized hardware runs in production environment even better than >>native appliance-based one. You get HA, DRS, increased >>manageability, scalability and other nice features. Of course, not >>officially supported. >> >> >> >> 2106 controller (its hardware is the same as for >>ASA5505) is theoretically >> possible to virtualize as well. I gave up after few weeks trying J >>From the practical standpoint, it may take months as one have to >>write a MontaVista 4 Linux driver for Marvel 88E60xx chip J If you >>have a spare ASA box, I guess it is possible to "convert" it to 2106. >> >> It is likely NOT possible to run higher controller (440x and 5508) >>code in virtual environment as CPU architecture is not i386 (440x is >>ARM, and 5508 is MIPS64). >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Anton Vinokurov >> >> CCIE #23134 (R&S), CCDP >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] >>[mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Geek Mega >> *Sent:* Monday, December 20, 2010 4:54 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Re: [CCIE Wireless] CCIE_Wireless Digest, Vol 21, Issue 10 >> >> >> >> Has anyone managed (or trying) to get WLC working on VM? >> >> >> >> Does anyone know how to extract BiOS from wlc2106 (if it is possible >>at >> all) or where to get one from? >> >> >> ZZZ >> >> _______________________________________________ For more information >>regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit >>www.ipexpert.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, >>please visit www.ipexpert.com >> >> _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
