Adding WinBox to GNS3 as an appliance

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Adding WinBox to GNS3 as an appliance
Mikrotik WinBox. 

Step 1: Go to the GNS3 marketplace Appliances | Marketplace | GNS3. In the Search Results bar, type in WinBox. You should see the following appliance.

GNS3 Website

Click the Download button to download the appliance to your PC.

Step 2: Open GNS3. Once GNS3 is open, Navigate to File -> Import appliance .

Import appliance into GNS3

Step 3: Select the WinBox appliance that we just downloaded and click Open

Import GNS3 appliance

Step 4: Select "Install the appliance on the GNS3 VM (recommended)" and click Next to continue.

Install appliance on GNS3 VM

Step 5: Click Finish to import the appliance. The appliance will be available in the Guest Category.

Click Finish to complete installation of WinBox GNS3 appliance. 

The first time we try to pull in a Winbox instance into our workspace, GNS3 will attempt to download the virtual image for the appliance as shown here