While eve-ng can be installed on vmware workstation, esxi, proxmox its a nested virtualization, I have experienced large labs crashing. So I wanted to install eve-ng on baremetal to get to run it as type 1 hypervisor.
eve-ng under the hood uses a customized version kvm, qemu to run VM’s, we will dig deeper into it in coming sessions.
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Usage of /: 29.5% of 465.88GB Processes: 276
Memory usage: 3% Users logged in: 1
Swap usage: 0% IPv4 address for pnet0: 54.39.52.222
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