Running Sonus SWe Lite "To-Go"

Finally, the Sonus SWe Lite is out, and its exciting times. This is a great VM to use in your environment, but it also means that you can have your very own SBC to test configs, and play with any time you like.

If you are like me, I use Oracle VirtualBox for all my VMs on my machine. I am not going to go into the reasoning as to why I use VirtualBox, I am sure many out there can explain it better than I can.

However, the SWe Lite VM only comes in 3 flavours, Hyper-V, VMWare, and KVM hypervisors. I took the VMWare package and imported it into VirtualBox, but it failed straight off the bat. After several trials, I have finally found the tweaks to make this work...

First, create your own virtual machine, and do not import the OVF (or OVA) file...

After creating the VM (with no disks attached); copy the VMDK files from the OVA file to their new home...

 

Next attach the disks to the VM using the Oracle VBox GUI (or the CLI if you like that sort of thing)...

Now for the trick that took me a few hours to figure out. You need to have 5 NICs and not 4 (the maximum you can see in the GUI). The only way to do this, is via the command line interface

N.B. If you are feeling brave, you can add it manually by editing the vbox file (Yes ... it says don't edit it .. but you can .. as long as you have VBox closed while you do it). Just in case you are, here is a screenshot of what mine looks like now...

 Once you have set this up correctly, you should now see in your GUI, the 5 interfaces...

Now you are ready to start the SWe Lite and configure the SBC. I recommend you have a read of Greig's well written post on the subject.