This is the GNS3 server repository.

The GNS3 server manages emulators such as Dynamips, VirtualBox or Qemu/KVM. Clients like the GNS3 GUI controls the server using a JSON-RPC API over Websockets.

You will need the GNS3 GUI (gns3-gui repository) to control the server.

The following instructions have been tested with Ubuntu and Mint. You must be connected to the Internet in order to install the dependencies.

Dependencies:

• Python 3.3 or above
• Setuptools
• PyZMQ library
• Netifaces library
• Tornado
• Jsonschema

The following commands will install some of these dependencies:

sudo apt-get install python3-setuptools
sudo apt-get install python3-zmq
sudo apt-get install python3-netifaces

Finally these commands will install the server as well as the rest of the dependencies:

cd gns3-server-master
sudo python3 setup.py install
gns3server

Please use our all-in-one installer.

Please use our DMG package for a simple installation.

If you want to test the current git version or contribute to the project.

You can follow this instructions with virtualenwrapper: http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/ and homebrew: http://brew.sh/.

brew install python3
mkvirtualenv gns3-server --python=/usr/local/bin/python3.4
python3 setup.py install
gns3server