Installing eve-ng on ubuntu 24.04 LTS

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.

1. I have a baremetal on cloud, with ubuntu 24.04 installed on it

Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS (GNU/Linux 6.7.5-eveng-6-ksm+ x86_64)

* Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
* Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
* Support:        https://ubuntu.com/pro

 System information as of Mon Dec 15 05:47:24 PM UTC 2025

  System load:  0.0                 Temperature:            58.5 C
  Usage of /:   29.5% of 465.88GB   Processes:              276
  Memory usage: 3%                  Users logged in:        1
  Swap usage:   0%                  IPv4 address for pnet0: 192.168.122.22

  => /mnt/data is using 85.1% of 476.71GB


Expanded Security Maintenance for Applications is enabled.

0 updates can be applied immediately.

New release '24.04.3 LTS' available.
Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.

2. Enable eve-ng repos in ubuntu 24.04

echo "deb [arch=amd64]  http://www.eve-ng.net/jammy jammy main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/eve-ng.list
echo "#deb [arch=amd64] http://www.unetlab.com/apt jammy rrlabs" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/unetlab.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install eve-ng

After this eve-ng should be installed on the server, you need to restart your server to apply changes.

3. First boot settings

Upon first boot you need to login with default user name “root” and password “eve”. Eve-ng will ask for change of root password, network settings, hostname configuration.

4. Access eve-ng UI

After the first boot settings are applied, eve-ng will restart and the UI should be accessible at your IP address.

Example: http://192.168.121.22