BIG-IP Next

Short answer? No this will not work in EVE-ng

As i know, you need ESXi or KVM

probably yes if eve-ng support nested virtualization.
i was able to run hardware accelerated BigIP KVM VE within Linux WSL, which the WSL itself is a VM guest of Windows HyperV host.
the hardware was intel 11 gen laptop.

i see in the https://www.eve-ng.net/ that it uses kvm hardware acceleration, so there is possiblity.

this is video about nested virtualization:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sieDrofaaDU

Hi community, i had the same issue on EVE-NG CE, for BIGIP-Next is necessary to have qemu version 6.2 but EVE-NG free edition CE is locked from older until 6.0 qemu version.

My solution was run BIGIP-Next over cockpit (its a GUI tool to administering linux servers and kvm virtualization "super easy to install and use it"), a was trying a couple of instance and Central Manager, all works fine.

In addition, if you wanna interconect instances between Cockpit and EVE-NG you can do it with network interfaces without problems.

So i definetly recommend to use Cockpit for lab purposes.

Maybe use proxmox that is popular now that people are running away from Vmware 😄

Create BIG-IP Next Instance locally on Proxmox (f5.com)

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