The default password for the gns3 user is gns3. You can do that using WinSCP on Windows Linux and OSX users can use the CLI and type in this command (replace GNS3_VM_IP_ADDRESS with the IP address of your GNS3 VM instance): scp OVMF-20160813.fd GNS3_VM_IP_ADDRESS:/home/gns3/ Unzip the downloaded OVMF-20160813.fd.zip, and copy OVMF-20160813.fd to the home directory of the gns3 user. Unzip the boot file and upload it to GNS3 Visit gns-3 project, files () pages.File listing converted from the RSS. Please note that you must have a service contract with Cisco in order to download it. This post will guide you through the steps of addding the UEFI boot file and using it for the NX-OSv9k appliance.
Note: Version 2.0 provides a solution to this problem. The only problem is that the image requires UEFI for booting, which is not provided by earlier versions of GNS3. Cisco has released NX-OSv9k, and the good news is that it can used in a GNS3 topology too.
