The official EVE-NG Forum has a dedicated “Image Requests” section.
Huawei now offers eNSP (Enterprise Network Simulation Platform) Lite as a free alternative, but it lacks the power of EVE-NG. The trend is shifting toward Containerized VRP (CVRP), where Huawei runs as a Docker container.
Pro Tip: Watch for lxc-huawei images. These boot in milliseconds and use 1/10th the RAM of QEMU images. However, they are currently only available for internal Huawei engineers. eve-ng huawei images download
EVE-NG needs to know how much RAM and CPU to give the Huawei node.
Running multiple Huawei images consumes resources. Huawei emulation is more CPU-intensive than Cisco IOL. The official EVE-NG Forum has a dedicated “Image
Run the EVE-NG image fixer to ensure there are no formatting issues:
/opt/unetlab/wrappers/unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions
If you skip this, EVE-NG will delete the image when you reboot, claiming it is "corrupted." EVE-NG needs to know how much RAM and
Open your SSH terminal (Putty/MobaXterm) and run:
cd /opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/
ls -l
Look at the owner of the other folders (it will likely say root:unetlab). Run this command, replacing the folder name with yours:
chown -R root:unetlab ce6800-v200r019c10spc800
chmod -R 777 ce6800-v200r019c10spc800