Prepare Hardware or Virtual Machine
Enable Nested Virtualization
Get Ubuntu 18.04 Cloud Image
Remove netplan & reboot
apt -y purge netplan.io reboot
Config network
https://pnetlab.com/pages/documentation?slug=fix-name-resolution-error
- /etc/network/interfaces
- /etc/resolv.conf
Add repo
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/pnetlab.list
deb [trusted=yes] http://repo.pnetlab.com ./
Install PNETLab
apt update apt -y install pnetlab
Install ishare2 Image Manager
https://github.com/ishare2-org/ishare2-cli
wget -O /usr/sbin/ishare2 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ishare2-org/ishare2-cli/main/ishare2 && chmod +x /usr/sbin/ishare2 && ishare2
Install ishare2 Image Manager GUI
# cd /opt # git clone https://github.com/ishare2-org/ishare2-web-gui.git # cd ishare2-web-gui # docker images REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE ishare latest b8d5dcdcbe12 10 minutes ago 87.6MB python 3.11-alpine a6fe4140edea 10 days ago 52.5MB
Patch A
https://pnetlab.com/pages/documentation?slug=fix-bug-file-get-contents
sed -i '/skip_ssl/d' /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf echo "skip_ssl" >> /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf sed -i 's/Update-Package-Lists "1"/Update-Package-Lists "0"/g' /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
Patch B
(optional) enable offline mode as default, add offline account
# mysql -u pnetlab -p pnetlab_db Enter password: pnetlab Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Server version: 5.7.42-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 (Ubuntu) mysql> INSERT INTO `control` VALUES ('ctrl_default_mode','offline'),('ctrl_offline_mode','1'),('ctrl_online_mode','1'); mysql> INSERT INTO `users` VALUES (1,'admin',NULL,NULL,-1,NULL,'fcfcbba4e322bb69d53fe0f8a2b03d7f3c37ee3fb3d51864785c899aaeaaeb5d',NULL,NULL,'0',NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,1723433636,NULL,1,NULL,NULL,1,NULL,NULL,NULL);
Patch C
(optional) disable boot screen and show boot logs
sed -i 's/quiet splash //g' /etc/default/grub sed -i 's/quiet splash //g' /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Configure (reconfigure)
rm /opt/ovf/.configured /bin/bash /opt/ovf/ovfconfig.sh
Configure Network and NTP server using setup script
Reboot
reboot
Firewall
(optional)
apt -y install ufw systemctl enable --now ufw ufw allow from 172.16.0.0/12 comment "Docker Internal" ufw allow from 10.177.0.0/16 comment "Docker Internal" ufw allow from 192.168.0.0/24 comment "MyNetwork" ufw status numbered
Reference
https://pnetlab.com/pages/documentation?slug=install-bare-metal