Tried everything mentioned in Bob's blog. I followed the instructions but the system keep give me Halted! Mohammad : try again! Another VM to add to my inventory! Thank you my friend! Guys, it gives me below error and never boots completely. Great info! Can't wait to have a play with that. Thank you for this! Cisco VIRL Images for GNS3 and Qemu | Free eBooks Download - EBOOKEE! The network adapters type must be e, instead of virtio. Also with Qemu, the -nographic option allows you to use another console than the default one. If you have the choice, I recommend to use Qemu nodes instead of VirtualBox for the following reasons.