Hi, until now I had ASA 8.0(2) running on GNS3 with unrestricted license for lab purposes. Also had a physical ASA 8.2 with restricted license to lab WebVPN configurations, and PIX 515 unrestricted license to lab Failover operations. But I wanted to test new NAT capabilities from ASA 8.4(2), so I had to configure this version on GNS3.

This is the procedure followed:

  • Configure identifier for this platform, in my case ASA842
  • Set amount of RAM at 1GB , with less memory the Qemu machine will loop into crash and reboot
  • In Qemu options set:
-vnc :2 none -vga none -m 1024 -icount auto -hdachs 980,16,32
  • Select the kernel and initrd files for this version
  • In the Kernel cmd line:
-append ide_generic.probe_mask=0x01 ide_core.chs=0.0:980,16,32 auto nousb console=ttyS0,9600 bigphysarea=65536
  • Save the config and have fun!

Here you have a short video with the version 8.4(2) of the ASA up and running.

09/2019 - Video uploaded to Youtube