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You could still capture the traffic with probe and/or tcpdump on vSLX host. Note that link on the left is not controlled by GNS3 (that LAN Segment), so just a line.
This time tried native VMware options and connecting NICs the same VMNet still passes garbage, but using "LAN Segments" works fine I vaguely remember using TAP interface created with OpenVPN earlier for the same on Windows. The problem seems ubridge.exe used by GNS3, maybe it's somehow configurable.
Unrelated to vSLX, but I could not pass tagged packets to it with just GNS3. External mappings to VMware depend on you and GNS3. Internal on mappings can be redefined any time to use different ports on SLX side with a script+mapping text file in home folder. The image is set up for 8 interfaces that I mapped as: eth0 - vslx mgmt bridge, eth1 - VMWare host (not usable for GNS3), eth2-7 - VMNet 2-7. Instead you can use several hosts running one vSLX each, there should not be a massive CPU/memory loss from that anyway. You could in theory start several vSLX instances inside a single host, but any internal links will not be visible to GNS3, so sort of deceits the purpose and you'll need to memorize which NIC goes to which vSLX. The image automatically starts a single vSLX instance, as a systemd job, so can properly poweroff vSLX on shut down as well. I tried v15 and after some struggle could make it talk to VMware VIX API used by GNS3, but they still talk different dialects, GNS3 is able to start VMs, but does not understand that it has started GNS3 VMWARE IMAGE INSTALL
If you are just going to install GNS3 for this better use VMWare player version 12.
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At this point VBox does not support full HW virtualization on non-AMD CPUs (support is coming in 6.1 release), so VMWare player is a better option.
interface naming in Linux is changed from fancy slot/pci schemes back to ethX one, so should hopefully work regardless of NIC type specified in VMWare on Virtual Box. vSLX mgmt interface is also properly mapped to the same bridge and configured for DHCP. After that console is available with telnet to Ubuntu eth0 address on port 9001. You'll still need to login into Ubuntu host once to get IP address assigned by VMware DHCP or set up a static one. I used "Custom console" option in VMware guest that you can save. vSLX console listens on TCP for telnet connections. KB article 000043897 provides a vsxl shell script, that can be used to enable auto boot of vSLX VM inside Ubutnu host, by either adding it in /etc/rc.local startup script or as a systemd job. Vsh show link | grep iface | awk '' Optional steps to auto start SLXOS VM Run the script below to cleanup all existing -interface links and create them anew Vslx interface define interface mappings in a text file called IFMAP, e.g Sudo systemctl disable ufw Optional steps for easier data interface mappings This will open VM definitions XML, where you can add serial1 section and modify the console section to point to serial1. modify VM console to listen for telnet connections with. install SLXOS VM using vsh as per vSLX install guide. eth1 - eth7 interfaces are data interfaces that can me mapped to SLXOS interfaces with standard vsh (utility to manage vSLX installed by vslx package) commands. 
SLXOS management interface will be plugged into the same bridge. In the list below eth0 is assumed to be management interface on Ubuntu and added to a br0 bridge. GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"
change interface naming to use ethX interfaces in Ubuntu. Install Ubuntu 16.04 distribution as a VMware guest. As per above Ubuntu host is a VM itlsef, running on VMware player on Windows. Steps to create an image Ubuntu Host and SLXOS VM configurationĪll the steps below are done on Ubuntu host and not inside SLXOS VM. The testing was done with VMware player v12 and vslx 2.1.0 Following that it can used with GNS3 the same way as any other VMware image. The article only describes extra steps necessary to create VMDK image and not general vSLX install steps. Even with that it will rum much slower that running it natively on KVM. VSLX runs on KVM hypervisor, so creating image this way results in nested virtualisation and will require corresponding hardware support and BIOS configuration.
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