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Lima (Linux virtual machines, on macOS) installation guide for M1 Mac.

Sep. 27th 2021 UPDATED

Now we can install patched version of QEMU via Homebrew (thank you everyone for the info!). Here is the updated instruction with it:

Used M1 Mac mini 2020 with macOS Big Sur Version 11.6.

1. Install QEMU & Lima

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import re
from urllib.parse import unquote


FLAGS = re.IGNORECASE | re.DOTALL
ESC_DOLLAR = r'(?:\$|[\\%]u0024||\\x24|\\0?44|%24)'
ESC_LCURLY = r'(?:\{|[\\%]u007B|\\x7B|\\173|%7B)'
ESC_RCURLY = r'(?:\}|[\\%]u007D|\\x7D|\\175|%7D)'
_U_PERCENT_ESCAPE_RE = re.compile(r'%(u[0-9a-f]{4})', flags=FLAGS)
_PERCENT_ESCAPE_RE = re.compile(r'%[0-9a-f]{2}', flags=FLAGS)

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install vQFX10k on KVM/QEMU for Testing or QA

This vQFX Platform is supposed to be used with vagrant and ships with a few nice fabrics that spin up on the go. But there's a few problems with that - which may not be instantly obvious if you plan on using it for testing or QA in your NetOps department:

1. This Vagrant configuration relies and only supports virtualization via Virtualbox
   • so far no plans have been announced to switch from Virtualbox to another out of the box solution, so you'll have to hack this up a bit. libvirt, kvm/qemu makes this relatively simple, but you have to get familiar with their tools (again).
2. vQFX comes in two "VMs": a Routing Engine (RE) and a Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE)

• this is due to the way the hardware is actually set-up and working on a real bare metal switch or router (same story for vMX). ASICs are supplied in the form of shim kernel modules that make it possible to unit-test more advanced features or do functional testing before deploying on real (ide