Jeremy Grossmann

> That excludes 32 appliances from the registry, including Cisco IOSv We allow raw images when installing appliances.

The idea behind not allowing raw images is to prevent users to upload files to the controller that aren't meant to run in GNS3 as this could be considered a...

> With 2.x there were no limitations, so I am concerned that not allowing raw images might surprise some users and maybe even limit the functionality. But maybe the security...

This may because of the adapter type. For instance e1000 could report the link as always UP: https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-gui/issues/2821#issuecomment-520169971 What adapter type do you have?

@grossmj Should I provide any additional info? No, all good. It makes sense because nodes operate independently from other nodes, in short they don't know the state of other nodes...

I think this is because tail.exe uses Cygwin DLL which doesn't support UTF-8 (at least in the version we ship).

@manh57 what filename?

Thanks for this 👍

Duplicate of https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-server/issues/2069

We don't support it yet but it would indeed be nice. The difference device template workaround is the way to do it for now.