The Result: Within a few hours, John had downloaded all EVE-NG images, which he could now use for his project. He was thrilled to have saved hours of manual work and was grateful to the EVE-NG community for sharing the script.

Next Steps: Start with one Cisco IOS image, add a Linux host, and ping across your first virtual link.

Before you start downloading, you need to know that EVE-NG supports three main categories of images: Dynamips: Legacy Cisco IOS images (older, less used today).

Total disk space required: 150GB – 500GB+

• Use pre-built cloud images (smaller, faster):

  wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/focal/current/focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
  mv focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.img ubuntu20.qcow2
  

: Some community members share "Full Packs" or torrents containing categorized vendor images (Cisco, Palo Alto, etc.).

| Repository | Content | Access | |------------|---------|--------| | EVE-NG Community on GitHub | Conversion scripts, not binaries | Free | | OSBoxes | Pre-built Linux/BSD QEMU images | Free | | Flowgrammable | Open-source switch images | Free | | VirtualBox Images (convert to QEMU) | Windows, BSD, Solaris | Free/Evaluation |