Once your environment is ready, you can create the VM. You can use the graphical tool virt-manager for a point-and-click experience, or the command line with virt-install for a scriptable, headless server approach.
Thus, is a FortiGate VM version 7.2.3 (build 1262) pre-configured for KVM hypervisors, delivered as a QCOW2 image. This file is ready to be imported into any KVM-based environment, including standalone libvirt setups, Proxmox VE, Red Hat Virtualization, or OpenStack.
: The KVM host bridges are not configured correctly, or the VM’s NIC model is not virtio . Solution : Verify bridges with brctl show . Recreate the VM with --network bridge=br0,model=virtio . Inside FortiGate, run diagnose hardware deviceinfo nic to list interfaces.
: Support for large-scale networking requirements and NP7 hardware acceleration. fgtvm64kvmv723fbuild1262fortinetoutkvmqcow2
: At least 1024 MB (2048 MB recommended for full features).
To get the best throughput from this build, apply these KVM-specific tweaks.
<disk type='file' device='disk'> <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none' io='native'/> <source file='/var/lib/libvirt/images/fgtvm64.qcow2'/> <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/> </disk> Once your environment is ready, you can create the VM
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: Use virt-manager or virsh to create a new VM. Import Disk : Select Import existing disk image . Browse to the ...fortinet.out.kvm.qcow2 file.
Open , navigate to Preferences -> Qemu VMs , and click New . This file is ready to be imported into
: Includes deep packet inspection (DPI), web filtering, intrusion prevention (IPS), and malware protection powered by FortiGuard Labs.
You will be prompted to create a new password immediately upon first login. Configure Management IP:
Expected output: file format: qcow2 virtual size: 10 GiB (example)