An IOL L2 image behaves almost identically to a Catalyst 4500 running classic IOS. You get all the relevant switching commands ( show vlan , spanning-tree vlan , errdisable recovery , etc.).
He held his breath. He copied the file into the GNS3/images/ folder. He opened the GNS3 preferences, clicked , then Cisco 4500 . He pointed the “Initrd” to nothing and the “Kernel” to the .bin file. cisco 4500 switch ios download for gns3