The publication of the IOS XRv was by error. It has been removed.

Hi Jeff! Thanks for your XR Guide, it has been really helpful for my first IOS XR steps :) Have you (or someone else) tried the VPLS features with this XRv? Seems to me that it's not fully supported (I get the L2VPN session up but no packets forwarded, although MPLS is working). But of course it could be me doing something wrong here :)

Hi bro... I cannot download IOS XR neither from Cisco nor by your link... Cisco page asks me for CCO Account and seems i don't have privileges and from your link asks me for user/password... i hope you could help me!... thanks

Well, it doesn't work with poor mans ESXi standard license - no virtual serial ports available :-(

I am able to telnet to the serial and set the root user.password but afterwards when i prompted to enter username and i do so it never asks for password and gives following error

"RP/0/0/CPU0:Mar 7 18:47:18.544 : exec[65687]: %SECURITY-login-4-AUTHEN_FAILED :

Failed authentication attempt by user 'cisco' from 'console' on 'con0_0_CPU0'"

Please help

I encountered this situation also. I've resolved it.
I think this is a setting problem of termianl emulator like Putty or Secure CRT In my case.
this is my solution.
1. if you use Putty, V check here that [ Category : Connection / Telnet Return key sends Telnet New Line instead of ^M]
2. if you use Secure CRT, Select here that [ Options / Global Options / General-Default Session / Edit Default Settings.. / Termail-Emulation-Mode/ marking V to New Line mod in Intial modes.

If you're on Linux (and maybe some others) you can just type Ctrl-J instead of hitting the Enter key when you enter your username and password.

try using the root account and see if that works, I have not looked at the login security settings. That is the first thing that comes to mind, root/root on the console.

me too, Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I have this issue as well and no luck using another account. I don't even get the chance to type a password.

Same here :(

I have installed but unable to access through serial port, I have assigned IP 192.168.120.125 with port 2001 any idea to troubleshoot this problem.
Also you can open the .ova file in VM ware workstation 10 and able to connect through named pipe proxy using Putty but problem is that IOS XRv does not detect the addition NICs it only shows two interface ( Mgmt and gig though I have added more NIC)

Yasir, I also had this problem. You have to have the "Enterprise" license of ESXi, as I later found out, in order to use Serial over Network feature.

Ahh, Installation guide is very good but missed this information. Thanks for your reply. Its been 3 days I'm installing and re-installing everything.

One thing I overlooked because I'm a ESXi newb- In the Firewall properties make sure you enable the correct VM serial port label. On mine towards the top there is one labeled VM serial port connected to vSPC. Do NOT select this option, scroll down farther and be sure to enable the correct one Jeff mentioned called VM serial port connected over network.

I had escalated it big time as I was not able to download, may be lot of people did the same which is why the download screen is different

Looks very neat! Is anyone else getting a realm login prompt when clicking the updated download link? I've tried a few times between 11:00-11:30am Central on 2014-02-12 and it keeps requesting me login but my Cisco credentials are not accepted.

Awesome, Jeff. Thanks for this! Took me forever in troubleshooting the "remote serial access" before I found that you have to have the "Enterprise" license in order to get the remote serial feature to work.

Great post and very informative workbook to add on top of it. Great work.
I have one question tho, has anybody been able to access cgn or bng features?

The greatest thing about this entire thing is that it seems Cisco is listening to the learning community at large that has long demanded stuff like this for free for educational purposes. Having the 2Mbps limit is exactly what I would expect. People can learn and practice without Cisco needing to worry about piracy too much. Brilliant, and I hope the trend continues. Way to go Cisco!

Coolest...Thing...Ever!!!

My powered on server shows "Booting IOS-XRv" and never gets past that...any ideas?

Yup, that is what it is supposed to do. To access the console, search this post for Serial Console and it will walk you through setting that up.

thanks

Thank you so much! Also tried to access on 9 Feb 2014 without success; it is even unavailable to gold partners this moment. Looking forward to tomorrow.

Well crap. Looks like my profile doesn't have the contracts loaded to be able to download. That sucks. :(

They are working to fix that - heard that would be tomorrow (Monday).

I tried using VM4.3.8 and GNS3. I am able to create virtual machine XR but when I tried to run it using GNS3 it load the IOS-XR and stuck at ""writing x86 kernel core file"". even after several hours of waiting I dint get the username/password prompt. as it doesn't load after ""writing x86 kernel core file"". please help to resolve this

Same problema here, any clue how to solve this?

I had the same problem, then I enabled virtualization in the BIOS of my PC. I can now run IOS-XR on my windows 7 32bit OS, allocating 1,5G RAM to the IOS-XR on virtual box