We are proud to announce the version 0.3 of GNS3, this version is considered as a beta.

A lot of new features and bug-fixes are available, the most important are:

- Support of Ethernet, ATM and Frame-Relay switches
- Included hub (Bridge of Dynamips) and cloud (external connections) devices
- Added the Dynagen console (nearly all commands supported)
- New GUI settings
- Improved node configurator
- Load and save in Dynagen INI-like configuration files
- Multi-language support (howto for translators soon)

A documentation has been written and is available in the documentation section on the website

Note: the official name of the project is now GNS3 (not gns-3 nor GNS-3)

Thank you for reporting bugs with details

Jeremy
GNS3 Staff

Great progress by GNS3 team.

From Cris blog :

Hello all,

The 0.2.8-RC1 release is available. It requires a Dynagen upgrade since the hypervisor control protocol has been modified. The new Dynagen release will be published by Greg soon.

New features:

• Support of the Cisco 1700 platforms, with WIC-1T, WIC-2T and WIC-1ENET cards (as for the 2600, the images need to be uncompressed before use).
• Support of WIC-1T and WIC-2T for the 2600 (2 WIC slots), 2691, 3725 and 3745 (3 WIC slots) platforms.
• Support of NM-NAM and NM-CIDS interfaces BUT this not means that you can use them out of the box. It means that you can connect your virtual routers to a VMWare, QEMU, … virtual PC running the NM-CIDS/NM-NAM code. I don’t provide a method to do this, but you can take inspiration here: http://7200emu.hacki.at/viewtopic.php?t=3095. If someone wants to document how to setup this, he/she is welcome.
• Plugin system (not documented yet) that allows to dynamically load new platforms. It is mainly for coding tests (it avoids to modify the dynamips core with temporary code).

Optimizations / Bug-fixes:

• New generic card framework to reduce the code specific to each platform (it is transparent to users, and was required for WIC support) ;
• Fixed JIT compiler for PowerPC and MIPS platforms on MacOS X (stack alignment) ;
• Fixed JIT compiler for PowerPC on 64-bit Linux platform (incorrect “bctr” instruction) ;
• Added ISL support for NM-1FE-TX card ;
• Fixed the Serial cards (NM-4T, PA-4T, PA-8T, PA-POS-OC3, WICs) to handle correctly CRC stuff. Now, you can interconnect them to the virtual Frame-relay switches.

Important note: The use of WIC cards is a bit complicated without Dynagen, so I strongly recommend to use it to mask the gory details.

Files:

0.2.8-RC1 binary for Linux x86 platforms

0.2.8-RC1 binary for Linux x86_64 platforms

0.2.8-RC1 binaries for Windows XP and 2000

0.2.8-RC1 source code

UTF-8 TeraTerm Pro with TTSSH2 is enhanced version TeraTerm from TeraTerm 2.3 original version. TeraTerm is open source free software terminal emulator supporting SSH2 and UTF-8 protocol.

hxxp://iij.dl.sourceforge.jp/ttssh2/26625/teraterm_utf8-4.53.exe

[TeraTerm]
2007.8.8 (Ver 4.53)
- added `&h’ parameter to log file name that can convert the host name.
- added a default log directory setting.
added LogDefaultPath entry to teraterm.ini.
added a new edit control on Additional Settings tab.
- added auto start logging setting when a user try to connect.
added LogAutoStart entry to teraterm.ini.
added a new checkbox on Additional Settings tab.
- added the file name filter on the file sending dialog.
added FileSendFilter entry to teraterm.ini.
- changed the behavior of tab at end-of-line. It causes linefeed automatically.
added VTCompatTab entry to teraterm.ini. This entry enables the behavior of the tab code at end-of-line to doing as vt100/xterm. The default is off.
- expanded the maximum number of serial connection to 200.
- added support displaying the port number of TCP and the baud rate of serial port to titlebar.
- added support for Clickable URL to Emacs editor. TeraTerm would ignore \ character as URL composition characters when an end of a line was the character.
- added ‘tolower’ macro command.
- added ‘toupper’ macro command.
- added ‘break’ macro command.
- added an argument to inputbox macro command. New argument is used for default input string.
- added logical operator "&&", "||", "!" and bitwise operator "&", "|", "^", "~" for macro.
- added "Cygterm Here" to a context menu of Explorer. CygTerm can be started from an any directory on Explorer.
added cyglaunch.exe program that was able to start CygTerm without adding `X:\cygwin\bin’ to PATH environment variable.
- changed the owner of HTML help file from TeraTerm instance to Windows desktop.
- changed the macro error does not occur when including the empty macro file.
- added to preserve comment and unknown parameter when saving cygterm.cfg file.
- added to disable the serial port in New Connection dialog when there is no available COM ports.
- Bug fix: eliminated a unnecessary return code every time 1KB logging with the timestamp mode. Special thanks to Gentaro.
- Bug fix: BOF(Buffer Over Flow) problem in ttpmacro.exe program, which 256 byte longer command line parameter is specified.
- Bug fix: BOF(Buffer Over Flow) problem in ttpmacro.exe program when a line of macro is longer than 256 byte.
- added a workaround that ttermpro.exe can not send the server data to ttpmacro.exe with DDE transaction.
- Bug fix: wrong free of memory in var2clipb macro command.
- Bug fix: did not save/load "LF" to CRReceive entry in teraterm.ini.
- Bug fix: TeraTerm window size could not be changed after the window size is smaller than 120 dot(94 dot on XP LUNA style). This is TeraTerm 2.3 original bug.
- Bug fix: statusbox does not display ‘\n’ as LF when the statusbox is existing yet.
- Bug fix: some macros are not become an error when the parameter filename starts by ‘:’.
- Bug fix: the expression like "a < b < c" cannot be evaluated by the macro.
- Bug fix: The control window of ttpmacro.exe would be unresponsive while doing `pause’ macro command.
- added TTX KanjiMenu Plugin 0.1.3(ttxkanjimenu.dll). Special thanks to Sunao HARA.
- upgraded TTSSH version supporting SSH2 to 2.41
- upgraded CygTerm+ to 1.07_13
- upgraded Oniguruma to 5.9.0

VirtualBox 1.4 released, download last version from here

For windows host click here

This new version brings hundreds of improvements, more than any update since the first official release in January 2007. Among the new features are full support for 64-bit Linux hosts, RDP session shadowing, clipboard synchronization and easier Linux host interface networking. In the storage department, VirtualBox now supports VMware disk images (VMDK) natively and can give virtual machines access to physical disks and partitions ("raw disk support"). The graphical user interface has received more polish and has now been translated into 12 languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Arabic, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese and Chinese). Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) and Xandros Desktop 4.1 are now officially supported; support for FreeBSD and OpenBSD guests has been improved.

As with its predecessors, VirtualBox 1.4.0 is available both as Open Source under the GPL as well as under a commercial license which, in most cases, allows you to use the product free of charge.

For user with 1.3.8 version, quick way to upgrade is by uninstalling 1.3.8 and reinstall 1.4, no reboot needed. (Forum)

I will try FreeBSD 6.2 and Solaris 10 in this release

hip..hip horray

VirtualBox is another virtualization products for i386 family, from official site :

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

If you get confuse what VirtualBox do, then you can think vmware or virtualpc, this software working like vmware and virtualpc. Hardware requirement for VirtualBox, you need :

• Reasonably powerful x86 hardware. Any recent Intel or AMD processor should do.

• Memory. Depending on what guest operating systems you want to run, you will need at least 512 MB of RAM (but probably more, and the more the better). Basically, you will need whatever your host operating system needs to run comfortably, plus the amount that the guest operating system needs. So, if you want to run Windows XP on Windows XP, you probably won’t enjoy the experience much with less than 1 GB of RAM. If you want to try out Windows Vista in a guest, it will refuse to install if it is given less than 512 MB RAM, so you’ll need that for the guest alone, plus the memory your operating system normally needs.

• Hard disk space. While VirtualBox itself is very lean (a typical installation will only need about 30 MB of hard disk space), the virtual machines will require fairly huge files on disk to represent their own hard disk storage. So, to install Windows XP, for example, you will need a file that will easily grow to several GB in size.

• A supported host operating system. Presently, we support 32-bit Windows (primarily XP) and many Linux distributions. Support for Mac OS X and 64-bit operating systems is currently in the works.

• A supported guest operating system. Besides the user manual (see below), up-to-date information is available at “Status: Guest OSes“.

Today, I’ll show how to install VirtualBox in my Windows XP

1. Download latest release from VirtualBox site, put in any location followed by double click to start installation process.

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