Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software Installation And Configuration Guide

Install the VM using command line interface

Updated: April 24, 2026

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Provides the instructions to install Cisco Catalyst 8000V on Nutanix AHV hypervisor using command line interface.

Perform these steps to install Cisco Catalyst 8000V on Nutanix AHV hypervisor using command line interface.

Procedure

Run this command to create the VM.

acli vm.create c8kv-test memory=8G num_vcpus=4 num_cores_per_vcpu=1

Create the system disk and attach it to the virtual machine.

acli vm.disk_create c8kv-test create_size=20G container=default-container

Attach the ISO files.

acli vm.disk_create c8kv-test cdrom=true clone_from_image=c8kv-iso-image
acli vm.disk_create c8kv-test cdrom=true clone_from_image=c8kv-bootstrap-config

Create the network interface.

acli vm.nic_create c8kv-test network=labnet

Power on the VM.
```
acli vm.on c8kv-test
```

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