Following steps help you to upgrade your Titanium VMware image version 5.1.2 to version 5.2.1 or higher.
Prerequesities
Host system - any Linux OS
Guest system - Titanium 5.1.2 installed on VMware image
Emulator - any version Qemu able to run vmdk images
Titanium binaries - titanium-d1.6.2.1.bin and titanium-d1-kickstart.6.2.1.bin
1. Use Qemu to boot VMware Titanium image
/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-i386 -m 2049 ./Titanium-VM-5.1.2-cl1-flat.vmdk -serial telnet:0.0.0.0:3000,server,nowait -smp 2,cores=4
Use telnet to connect to the serial port of Titanium.
telnet localhost 3000
2. Assign an IP address to the Titanium management interface mgmt0
N7K-2(config)# interface mgm0
N7K-2(config-if)# ip address 10.0.2.15 255.255.255.0
N7K-2(config-if)# no sh
The default gateway IP address is 10.0.2.2/24.
3. Use secure copy to copy files to bootflash directory
First, you have to place both files - titanium-d1.6.2.1.bin and titanium-d1-kickstart.6.2.1.bin to your host home directory. Then use following command.
N7K-2# copy scp://brezular@10.0.2.2/home/brezular/titanium-d1.6.2.1.bin bootflash:
Enter vrf (If no input, current vrf 'default' is considered): management
N7K-2# copy scp://brezular@10.0.2.2/home/brezular/titanium-d1-kickstart.6.2.1.bin bootflash:
Enter vrf (If no input, current vrf 'default' is considered): management
4. Check if files are saved in a bootflash directory
Picture 1 - Content of the Titanium bootflash directory
5. Configure Titanium to boot new Titanium binaries
N7K-2(config)# boot kickstart bootflash:/titanium-d1-kickstart.6.2.1.bin
N7K-2(config)# boot system bootflash:/titanium-d1.6.2.1.bin
Finally, save your new configuration with copy running-config startup-config command and reload the router. Once Titanium boots up check a version.
Picture 2 - Titanium version 6.2.1
6. Upgrade to version higher than 5.2.1
Upgrade from version 5.1.1. to versions 6.1.1, 6.2.1 is working. Upgrade from version 5.2.1 to 6.1.1 is not working - image goes in to a bootloop.
Hi, are the 5.2.1 binaries available? I can't find them at present
Where in the Cisco site do you find the gbin file? I can't find any files with those type of names. Maybe I am looking in the wrong spot. I looked at the n7000 downloads and only see files like n7000-s1-dk9.6.1.2.bin. Can you elaborate?
I don't think you can download it from Cisco site. Instead of it try to find it with Google.
I found them with google but the file size are incorrect, to small !!
Hi Can't find any legitimate downloads for Titanium anywhere just loads of fake files and Torrent Adware.
Do you have a legit link or could you dropbox your copy.
Thanks in advance
Chrissy
Sorry, I'm not allowed to share this software or to post any links for download.
Is the VPC feature to be work fine?
are these steps also true for upgrade from 5.2 to 6.X or can we upgrade from 5.2 to 6.X
upgrade from 5.2 to 6.x is not working...upgrade directly from 5.1 to 6.x.
When did the 6.1.1 binaries become available? I managed to find the 5.1 VM and the 5.2.1 gbin files. But have seem the 6.1.1 files yet. I wish I could just use the files that can be downloaded from Cisco. Or have you been able to find a way?
where can i download the .gbin files?
thanks
Good evening. I have Titanium 5.1.2 running under VMplayer on a Windows 7 workstation. I'm using Putty via a pipe com_1 connection to connect. I only see OSPF as the only routing protocol.
Question #1 Is this normal??? Where is BGP, RIP, even EIGRP????
Comment #1 I also have found titanium-d1.6.1.1.gbin as well as it's kickstart and i'm looking for a tutorial on how to upgrade to this newer release.
Never mind about the various routing protocols. I just had to activate them. DUH!!
Hi Brezular!
I am trying to start the titanium in VMWARE but it doesn't proceed any further than:
Loader Loading stage1.5.
Loader, loading, please wait . . .
Any help on this?
on vmware create a serial port then with putty connect on new serial port created on vmware
Hi All
I am trying to do the above steps and still receive:
Network error : connection refused
22:40:35: DEBUG (2): Start console program SuperPutty.exe -telnet "127.0.0.1 -P 3001 -wt "Titanium" -gns3 5 -skin 4"
22:40:35: DEBUG (2): Titanium has 1 terminal program(s) connected to itself
can any one help
regards
Tried it & it works wonderfully. Do we have anything for Nexus 5K/2K ?
Rishabh
N7K-2(config)# boot kickstart bootflash:/titanium-d1-kickstart.6.2.1.bin
Failed to configure bootvar kickstart for sup-1: image MD5 checksum error (0x4045001F)
Note: system and kickstart bootvars are pointing to incompatible images
Any help on this?