Convert Qcow2 To Iso

Cisco ISE specifications:

Download the ISE image from below link

QEMU disk image utility for Windows. It is used for converting, creating and consistency checking of various virtual disk formats. It’s compatible with Hyper-V, KVM, VMware, VirtualBox and Xen virtualization solutions.This build has been optimized for Windows Server (x64), including Windows Nano Server. Nov 30, 2020 $ qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 image.vmdk image.qcow2 Note. The -f format flag is optional. If omitted, qemu-img will try to infer the image format. Convert a QCOW2, RAW, VMDK or VDI image to VHD. Exe convert source. Img-O vpc-o subformat = dynamic dest. Subformat can be either “dynamic” or “fixed” for VHD (vpc) or VHDX. Note: use the fixed VHD subformat for Azure, the. SCP the VPS `qcow2` HDD file from Source server to `/var/virtualizor/kvm` directory of the Destination server. Convert `qcow2` file to `img` format. Once the file has been copied to the proper destination, you need to convert it to `img` format by running the following command: # qemu-img convert filename.qcow2 -O raw filename.img. Import Qcow2 images using virt-install command. Virt-install is a command line tool to create KVM, Xen and Linux container guests. It is part of the Virt-manager package. If you haven't installed Virt-manager yet, refer the guide attached in 'Virt-manager' section below. To create new KVM VM using Qcow2 image, run.

How to add ISE in EVE-NG

1. Login in EVE via SSH and Create ISE image folder in the EVE.

2. Using WinSCP / FileZilla via SCP or SSH connect to your EVE and upload ise-2.6.0.156.SPA.x86_64.iso file to this directory.

3. From EVE CLI go to newly created ISE folder and rename uploaded ISO file to cdrom.iso.

4. Create virtio HDD for ISE

5. Create new LAB in the EVE and add ISE node, connect it to Home Management cloud (Cloud0). Settings for ISE node are: CPU x4, RAM x16384M, 1 xEthernet. Console VNC, during install first time.

Qemu line in Imge edit:

-machine type=pc,accel=kvm -smbios type=1,product=KVM -serial mon:stdio -nographic -no-user-config -nodefaults -display none -vga std -rtc base=utc

6. Start ISE node and when setup prompt appears, shutdown ISE node.

7. Check lab ID number on EVE side bar “Lab details”, For Example:

8. EVE CLI: Convert image from lab tmp folder to defaults image location. In the command below is used lab ID (above) and as we added on lab single node, node ID is 1. ISE image foldername match what we created before. Number 0 in the line below is user POD number. Admin pod is 0.

9. Delete install CD ISO from image folder:

10. Do Fix permissions:

Advanced instructions on how to make your image smaller in size (sparsify&compress). RECOMMENDED !

  1. After done all the steps above and default image is created, you can compress its HDD and make it smaller.

IMPORTANT: for compressing an image you must have sufficient free space on your EVE host, free space must exceed the total space (200GB in this example, We created 200Gb virtio HDD for ISE) of the HDD you plan to shrink. The space needed can vary but will be the total space of the disk to be shrunk plus the size of the final sparsified and compressed image. To be safe you should have double the size of the HDD you want to shrink as free space on your EVE host. In our example we needed 200GB +GB of free HDD space. Once this process is done, the temporary file(s) will be deleted and free space reclaimed.

  1. From the CLI: go to your ISE image directory:

perform the sparsify command:

Create Qcow2 Image

  1. It can take some time and another compressed image will be created in the same image directory
  2. now you can rename original hda.qcow2 file to orig.qcow2
  1. Rename the compressed image name to hda.qcow2:
  1. now you can test your new compressed image on a lab, just wipe the node and start it.
  2. If the compressed node works fine, you can delete your original source image:

You can also visit on eve-ng site, if you are facing any issue.

Adding checkpoint firewall in eve-ng is very simple, Eve-ng has provided one of the best platform for unlimited testing and practice for examination. To add checkpoint firewall in Eve-ng, we need Checkpoint firewall OVF image.
I have provided the download link for checkpoint firewall below and explained in detail to add checkpoint firewall in eve-ng. We need to upload the ovf image in Eve-ng and then we have to convert it hda.qcow2 and move it to correct folder.

There are two ways that you can use to add checkpoint firewall in eve-ng.
1. Download the ISO image and install the Checkpoint firewall on VMware and then export it to OVF. After exporting the OVF image you have to upload to Eve-ng and then convert it to hda.qcow2.

To download the Checkpoint firewall ISO image use below link.
(i) From Checkpoint website – Download
(ii) Direct Download Checkpoing ISO image

How to install Checkpoint firewall on VMware
How to add Checkpoint firewall in GNS3

2. Second method is very simple, where you just need to download OVF template from below link and upload to Eve-ng. After Uploading follow below steps.

Download Checkpoint firewall OVF image from below link-
(i) From Checkpoint Website – Download
(ii) Direct Download Checkpoint OVF template

1. First we need to create temporary folder in Eve-ng from CLI.
mkdir abc
cd abc

2. Upload the downloaded image to the EVE root/abc folder using for exampleFileZilla or WinSCP.

3. we need to Uncompress raw image to get vmdk file:
tar xf Check_Point_Security_Gateway_R77.30_OVF_Template_Gaia

4. Create target image folder:

Image folder names and hdd names is taken accordingly to qemu image naming table.

mkdir /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/cpsg-R77-30

5. Convert vmdk raw file to hda.qcow2
you can use ls command to check available files in folder and to move to any folder use cd foldername command
cd Check_Point_SG_R77.30_VE_NM
/opt/qemu/bin/qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 Check_Point_SG_R77.30_VE-disk1.vmdk hda.qcow2

6. Copy converted image HDD to target folder:

mv hda.qcow2 /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/cpsg-R77-30/hda.qcow2

7. Delete temporary folder:
cd ..
cd ..
rm -rf abc

8. Fix permissions:
/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions

Convert Qcow2 To Iso File

Original CheckPoint image default login on cli and WEB is admin/admin

Convert Qcow2 To Iso

9. Open the Eve-ng and Select the checkpoint firewall and start the node enjoy-