I struggled quite a lot of get ASA 8.4 working on GNS3. I had 8.0(2) working and was helping to test the configurations and VPNs but now wanted to get 8.4 running such that I can prepare myself for new NAT statements and migration from 8.0(2) to 8.4(2).
Here are the steps to get it working.
1. Download the ASA 8.4 files for GNS3 from the following address
2. Configure GNS3 as following. ( I am using Ver 0.8.2 Beta 2, Also Tested 8.3 with Windows 7 64 bit which worked without any issues). Type the code below into relevant fields
Qemu Options: -vnc none -vga none -m 1024 -icount auto -hdachs 980,16,32Kernel cmd line: -append ide_generic.probe_mask=0x01 ide_core.chs=0.0:980,16,32 auto nousb console=ttyS0,9600 bigphysarea=65536
Configure the paths for Initrd and Kernel to where you have extracted the files.
3. Once the firewall is up and running use following activation keys
activation-key 0x4a3ec071 0x0d86fbf6 0x7cb1bc48 0x8b48b8b0 0xf317c0b5activation-key 0xb23bcf4a 0x1c713b4f 0x7d53bcbc 0xc4f8d09c 0x0e24c6b6
That's all done and we have a working firewall to play with.
Troubleshooting:
Please check the comments at the end of post where you will find different ways to resolve issues if you face any. Specially very helpfull comments from GD and are detailed below
Download and install the latest version of GNS3 0.8.2 after that download the •Qemu 0.13.0 patched 32 bits binary for Windows from
Copy and replace all downloaded qemu files and folders with existing qemu files and folders under GNS3 folder.
After you have ASA running in GNS and want to play with ASDM, here is the guide to follow
and if you want to connect two GNS3 networks running on two different PCs, use following
I have posted a LAB Guide for migrating NAT from 8.2 to 8.3/8.4 Version, which is still work in progress but has a lot of stuff already added into it
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