Recently many Cisco courses have virtual machines to make it easier for instructors and students to do hands-on labs. For the DevNet Associate Course the DEVASC VM is available for instructors to be shared with students. It is good to know that the VM contains a Cisco Virtual Routers, behaving like a real-world router.
What is the DEVASC VM?
The DEVASC Lab VM is a custom-built VM based on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux with Mate Desktop environment.
This VM is used in most of the labs in this course, and brings all the software tools that students need to complete the labs:
• Python & Python modules
• VS Code
• git
• Chromium
• Postman
• Drawio
• Cisco Packet Tracer 7.4.0T for Network Automation
• Docker
• ssh
• Ansible
• sshpass
• sqlitebrowser
• vim
• mc
• curl
• net-tools
• inetutils-traceroute
• tcptraceroute
• stunnel4
• htop
• VBoxGuestAdditions
• open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop vmfs-tools
What is the CSR1000v VM?
The CSR1000v VM is a real-world Cisco software router (Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000v), with the modern IOS-XE operating system, running in a Virtual Machine.
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