BIG-IP VM Appliance Configuration (KVM)

Hypervisor: KVM

Host OS: Centos 

VM Minimum Requirements:-

1. Cores 2

2. Memory 4 Gig

Get the qcow2 image of the Appliance VM

Deploying VM:-

I used Virtual Machine Manager to create the VM. 

Some VM properties:-

Target Dev: virtio

Boot Options: From HDD

VM comes up with single interface. You can add Two or More Interfaces (For Internal, External and HA)

Other details regarding Deployment are explained at following link:- BIG-IP VE KVM deployment

Management Port is eth0 with default address 192.168.1.245/24 (You need to change this to reflect your network Mgmt Address)

After VM is started, either you can go to VMs console from Virtual Machine Manager. 

Username: root Password: default

You can not get to the BIG-IP Configuration Utility via any browser https://<mgt IP>

Login: admin Password: admin

Now, you need to license the VM once you have the license in place the prompt would say 'Active' in Prompt

e.g.  

[root@hostname:Active]#