RHEL9 GNS3 Installation Script

This script installs and configures the necessary components to run GNS3 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

System Requirements

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
• Access to the internet

Usage

• Download the rhel9-gns3-install file.
• Open a terminal window and navigate to the directory where you saved the file.
• Make the file executable by running the following command:

chmod +x rhel9-gns3-install.sh

• Run the script with the following command:

./rhel9-gns3-install.sh

Run from the web

You can also run the script directly from the web by using the following command:

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/uwbfritz/gns3-rhel9/master/scripts/install.sh | bash

What it does

• Updates the system and disables SELinux.
• Installs Server GUI if not already installed.
• Enables the CodeReady Builder repository.
• Installs all required tools for GNS3.
• Clones the GNS3 server, GUI, and related repositories into /usr/local/src/gns3.
• Installs Python packages required by GNS3.
• Configures the desktop shortcut in GNOME.
• Installs VPCS, Dynamips, and Ubridge.
• Sets up Docker and libvirt.
• Installs the GNS3 registry.
• Configures miscellaneous settings. Note: This script requires superuser privileges to install software and make changes to the system.

VMWare Kernel Module Fix (Build and sign)

This script is designed to patch kernel modules for VMware Workstation 17.0.1 and sign the resulting code.

Usage

To use this script, simply execute it in a terminal with administrative privileges:

sudo ./vmware-kernel-fix.sh

Functions

The script has three main functions:

• install_tools: Installs the necessary tools required by the script such as openssl

• patch_vmware_modules: Clones the vmware-host-modules repository into a temporary folder, checks out the specified version, compiles and installs the modules, and then fixes an issue with the libz.so.1 library.

• sign_vmware_modules: This function creates a directory for the keys and a key pair, imports the key into the system's database, and signs each of the VMware module files.

Variables

The script uses the following variables:

• VMWARE_VERSION: Defines the version of VMware Workstation or Player to be patched

• TMP_FOLDER: Defines the temporary folder used to clone the vmware-host-modules repository. It defaults to /tmp/patch-vmware