Oh – my – word!!
After spending many, MANY valuable CCIE study hours trying to get a Juniper Olive to work on my Apple Mac (with VMware Fusion), i finally got it to work 
. I have to admit in the end that i cheated and searched the net for a vmware image and then installed that. But i don’t care! It’s up and running…. then i spent another hour trying to add an interface. I managed to get an ethernet interface up and running and applied an ip address and description! My first venture into juniper…
I’ve got two certification-oriented goals for today then:
1) Finish the last 1.5 MPLS labs in Narbiks workbook. I know i’m moving slow and i’d love to be moving much faster, but i have understood everything so far, alhamdu lillah.
2) Try and connect 2 olives together (an olive is a pc running JUNOS).
I think that this may be the more difficult of the two – considering tap interfaces, bridging, etc. This is the command i needed to use just to add the ethernet interface, which i found here – http://juniper.cluepon.net/index.php/Talk:Olive or here http://joost.blogsite.org/wordpress/?p=15:
Under VMware add ethernet0.virtualDev = “e1000″ to “*.vmx” file.
Ethernet1.present = “TRUE”
Ethernet1.virtualDev = “e1000″
Ethernet2.present = “TRUE”
Ethernet2.virtualDev = “e1000″
Now i need to discover how to “build” a virtual serial interface and connect them together. After a bit of reading, i’m kinda hoping that the multicast functionality is there – i’m running jinstall 9.6.1 so i hope it’s not an issue.
Just another distraction to take me away from CCIE studies…
After spending the past 2.5 hrs looking into this it appears like this website might have the solution to joining multiple vmware olives together, without using Qemu. This really distracts from CCIE studies.
and this…. http://communities.vmware.com/message/748577#748577
