qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -kernel c7200-image.bin -nographic
Physical BIN files are compressed. You must uncompress them using a tool like unzip or standard extraction utilities, as Dynamips executes the raw image. convert cisco bin to qcow2
The confusion arises because . Products like ASAv (Adaptive Security Virtual Appliance), CSR1000v, and IOSvL2 are officially provided as QCOW2 images by Cisco, usually after downloading a .zip or .tar archive that contains the disk image. Users who have seen those files sometimes assume they can take any Cisco .bin and “convert” it, which is generally not the case. qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -kernel c7200-image