{"id":206,"date":"2026-02-27T19:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/?page_id=206"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:54:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:54:47","slug":"get-cucmv15-on-eve-ng","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/?page_id=206","title":{"rendered":"Get CUCMv15 on EVE-NG"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-style-section-1 is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-55c14dbb wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex is-style-section-1--1\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--80);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p>Pre-Requisites<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Working EVE-NG server (I used PRO, version 6.4.0.x)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VMWare Workstation Pro (I used the last updated version after Broadcom acquired them)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CUCMv15 bootable ISO (I used the unrestricted ISO)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Procedure:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Install CUCMv15 ISO on Workstation PRO. Refer to any CUCMv15 installation guides. I personally used an official OVA file.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Once the installation is completely finished. Turn off the VM and copy the .vmdk disk from  your Virtual Machines folder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Transfer the .vmdk into eve-ng server. Convert the .vmdk into a QEMU image.<br><strong>\/opt\/qemu\/bin\/qemu-img convert -f vmdk -O qcow2 &lt;CUCMv15.vmdk> hda.qcow2<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Create a directory in EVE-NG in the QEMU folder &#8220;cucm-&#8220;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Place the hda.qcow2 image into the cucm- folder. Important: make sure only the qcow2 image is in this folder. If the .vmdk file is also within this folder, move it somewhere else.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Run <strong>unl_wrapper -a fixpermissions<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Open an EVE-NG lab and create a CUCM node. This CUCM node should be able to run.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-Requisites Working EVE-NG server (I used PRO, version 6.4.0.x) VMWare Workstation Pro (I used the last updated version after Broadcom acquired them) CUCMv15 bootable ISO (I used the unrestricted ISO) Procedure:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-206","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/206\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericcentric.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}