gns3-server doesn't support multiple clients about gns3-server HOT 7 CLOSED

any news here? is really a shame not to have such a feature. adding multi-user support and being able to support multiple client will make GNS3 a no-brainer choice against virl for example

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Agreed but this is easier said than done ;) Multi-user support isn't something that a lot of users will benifit from but we have plans for supporting it. We have a new programmer starting in January, so hopefully things should start to be a little faster.

Btw, do you have a use case why you need this so badbly?

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is not a matter of willing it "so badly" , but was something reported in october and there was no answer.

in any case, the main use case are classrooms or centralized environments.
you want to have 1 server , where multiple users can connect, rather than 1 server per each user.
as an example, right now i teach courses to 5-8 people every time, and i also deliver them labs to work on. IOU runs only on unix, qemu runs better on unix because of kvm. what this means is that for every real usage, dynamips is pretty much obsolete, and windows users need to have a remote server.

having multi user support for the server will allow you to really have a server/client environment. A small office or company can invest to buy a more expensive server, with lots of cpu power and ram, and let all the users in the class/office to use that server. The server will do the work, and the gui will just be a "dumb" user interface. no need to have gigs and gigs of ram to run 2 routers. (yes, to run 1 instance of iou, as of now, you need to run a full blown virtual machine to use as server)...

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Totally agree. This is something I want to push for the new year.

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you can try with a client per port? gns3server --port=8001 gns3server --port=8002, it starts ok, but don't know what other services are needed to start per client, or if gns3 itself proxies them

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may be need use database to manage the user table , project table, session table, equipment table work-space table and something else...this can be use only one gns3server instance.
otherwise, at this moment we also can implement multiple clients without change anything of gns3server, we can make one special "server core.ova", it is a linux image include iou,dynamips, virtualbox and qemu,then deploy on ESXi. copy it to many instance with different ip address , and each "student" can connect each one "server core instance". One 64G RAM server can be used for 10-20 clients.
by my side, I'd like the second one cause when one server core instance crashed , it would not affect others.

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It's done in the branch asyncio. Alpha release coming soon

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