Having troubles getting Dynamips/Dynagen running again now that you have upgraded to Leopard? If so then read carefully, this shouldn’t be too painful…
- Goto the Dynagen page and then to the Downloads
- Select the OS X Intel Package and download the most recent DMG. As of this entry the most recent was Dyngen-0.10.1 and Dynamips-0.2.8-RC1. (Dynagen-0.10.1_Dynamips-0.2.8-RC1.DMG – Local Mirror)
- Mount the image(this is usually done automatically upon downloading a DMG image, but browsers/settings may vary) and you will find a Dynagen Folder and an Readme file.
- Drag the Dynagen Folder to your /Applications/ folder and open it up.
- Double-clicking on Dynamips Server now(after authenticating for sudo) will produce the following error “sudo: unable to execute /Applications/Dynagen/dynamips: Bad executable (or shared library)”
- So now we need to fix Dynamips so that it will run properly. To do this we need to download a different version of the binary that has been updated to work on Leopard. It is available on 7200emu.hacki.at about the 3rd post in… (Dynamips-0.2.8-RC1-Intel-Fixed.bin for Leopard – Local Mirror)
- In your current Dynagen folder you will find a file named dynamips with an icon like
. I would suggest renaming this file to dynamips.old just in case you need it at some point. Take the second file you downloaded and move it into the /Applications/Dynagen/ folder. - Rename the file to dynamips and the icon should change to the , if it doesn’t use Finder’s Get Info command to unhide the extension and remove the extension.
- Now double-click Dynamips Server and you should get a new Terminal window with:
- Cisco Router Simulation Platform (version 0.2.8-RC1-x86)
- Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Christophe Fillot.
- Build date: Oct 6 2007 19:49:12
- Hypervisor TCP control server started (port 7200).
- You’re done! Dynagen itself should already be working, but it is up to you to provide your own IOS images and network configuration files.
On a side-note: In the Readme file that was in the Dynagen dmg file there are additional instructions on how to associate your .net files to dynagen. I personally don’t use it and instead have a bash alias to run it from terminal directly. Also I have included a local mirror of the files not because I particularly feel like being a mirror, but rather I always find it annoying to follow instructions for files that don’t exist anymore. I highly encourage you to download the files from the individual sites themselves and leave a thank you for the developers.
Tags: 10.5, cisco, dynagen, dynamips, emulator, Howto, Intel, Leopard, osx