This article is written for network engineers, DevOps professionals, and CCIE candidates who require this specific Cisco virtual machine image for labbing or testing. Introduction: Decoding the File Name If you have landed on this page, you are likely preparing for a Cisco certification (such as CCNA, CCNP, or CCIE), building a virtual lab, or testing a network topology. The file in question, vios-adventerprisek9-m.spa.159-3.m2.qcow2 , is a specific virtual image of the Cisco IOSv (IOS Virtual) .
mv /path/to/download/vios-adventerprisek9-m.spa.159-3.m2.qcow2 /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/vios-adventerprisek9-m.spa.159-3.m2/virtioa.qcow2 Note: EVE-NG requires the hard disk image to be named virtioa.qcow2 for the first drive. EVE-NG has a strict permission fixer script:
conf t no ip http server no ip http secure-server line vty 0 4 exec-timeout 0 0 If you don't use EVE-NG, convert the QCOW2 to VMDK using qemu-img :
cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/ mkdir vios-adventerprisek9-m.spa.159-3.m2 Move the QCOW2 file into the new directory and rename it to the standard EVE-NG convention: