On MacOSX, VMware Fusion is used instead of VMware Workstation. Desktop VMs are more responsive in VMware than Qemu, purely due to technical reasons that are beyond the scope of this document. Also, there are times when you may simply prefer using a desktop VM (and the GUI applications it can provide), instead of using the serial console to work with the VMs CLI in a terminal. Some appliances are designed to only run in VMware. This problem doesn’t occur with the paid version of VMware because a central database is available to third parties applications. The Player version of VMware has limitations and if your VM are not in the default directory sometimes GNS3 can’t locate the VM you created. You need a paid version of VMware to do that. You can’t run multiple instances of the same VMware VM if you are using VMware Player. If you want a portable topology you will need to use Qemu. This mean a topology using a VMware VM will not be portable on a different computer. The data of the VMware VMs are stored outside GNS3.
We are not discussing the importing of the GNS3 VM in this document but rather the addition of other virtual machines to GNS3 topologies which may be running in the GNS3 VM or running locally. Configure GNS3 to use an additional remote server.How to use applications with the GNS3 Web interface.Install an appliance from the GNS3 Marketplace.
