Run PaloAlto VM on EVE(UNL)/virtualbox/OSX

I tried to run Palo Alto on EVE/Virtualbox/Apple MAC OS and found it fails to start the Palo Alto Firewall. So I decided to find the root cause. (EVE suggests the users use VMware, I used VirtualBox instead because I don’t have a VMware Fusion license)

1. I went through EVE logs 1st.

   System -> System logs -> unl_wrapper.txt

   and found the log:

   Jan 25 05:18:13 INFO: starting /opt/unetlab/wrappers/qemu_wrapper -T 0 -D 3 -t "PaloAlto" -F /opt/qemu/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -d 0 -- -nographic -device e1000,netdev=net0,mac=50:00:00:03:00:00 -netdev tap,id=net0,ifname=vunl0_3_0,script=no -device e1000,netdev=net1,mac=50:00:00:03:00:01 -netdev tap,id=net1,ifname=vunl0_3_1,script=no -device e1000,netdev=net2,mac=50:00:00:03:00:02 -netdev tap,id=net2,ifname=vunl0_3_2,script=no -device e1000,netdev=net3,mac=50:00:00:03:00:03 -netdev tap,id=net3,ifname=vunl0_3_3,script=no -smp 2 -m 4096 -name PaloAlto -uuid 934e653f-accd-4ce0-a243-369f853b4add -drive file=virtioa.qcow2,if=virtio,bus=0,unit=0,cache=none -machine type=pc-1.0,accel=kvm -nographic -rtc base=utc > /opt/unetlab/tmp/0/a0fab94b-9b39-4226-884b-894ff4942d65/3/wrapper.txt 2>&1 &
   
   Jan 25 05:18:13 INFO: CWD is /opt/unetlab/tmp/0/a0fab94b-9b39-4226-884b-894ff4942d65/3
   
   Jan 25 05:18:13 ERROR: QEMU Arch is not set (80015).
   

2. Start Palo Alto manually

   From the log, you can find the qemu command, so I copied the command and run it from the console, got the error

   Could not access KVM kernel module
   

   I followed the link about KVM kernel module and found the CPU doesn’t support KVM.

   also found VirtualBox Ticket#4032.

3. make it work

   Depends on #2, edit Palo Alto VM and remove ‘,accel=kvm’ option:

   it works.

2018-01-05 update:

• Removing the ‘kvm’ option means worse performance.
• VMware has a free product: VMware Workstation Player for Linux and windows.

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