fairchild / vagrant-mininet

an Ubuntu 12.10 VM setup with mininet and related tools useful for openflow and sdn development.

mininet dev box

This Vagrant file use a fresh install of ubuntu 12.10 64 bit server edition.
Get started by installing Vithe dependencies and bringing up the development vm.

bundle install
vagrant up 

Will bring up a VM, and run the setup.sh script, which will install and configure mininet and some related tools on the vm. You can login and try a few mininet commands.

vagrant ssh
root@quetzal64:~# mn --test iperf
*** Creating network
*** Adding controller
*** Adding hosts:
h1 h2 
*** Adding switches:
s1 
*** Adding links:
(h1, s1) (h2, s1) 
*** Configuring hosts
h1 h2 
*** Starting controller
*** Starting 1 switches
s1 
*** Iperf: testing TCP bandwidth between h1 and h2
*** Results: ['118 Mbits/sec', '119 Mbits/sec']
*** Stopping 2 hosts
h1 h2 
*** Stopping 1 switches
s1 ...
*** Stopping 1 controllers
c0 
*** Done
completed in 5.415 seconds

Login to the interactive session to explore

root@quetzal64:~# mn
*** Creating network
*** Adding controller
*** Adding hosts:
h1 h2 
*** Adding switches:
s1 
*** Adding links:
(h1, s1) (h2, s1) 
*** Configuring hosts
h1 h2 
*** Starting controller
*** Starting 1 switches
s1 
*** Starting CLI:
mininet> help

Documented commands (type help <topic>):
========================================
EOF    exit   intfs     link   noecho    py    source
dpctl  gterm  iperf     net    pingall   quit  time  
dump   help   iperfudp  nodes  pingpair  sh    xterm 

You may also send a command to a node using:
  <node> command {args}
For example:
  mininet> h1 ifconfig

The interpreter automatically substitutes IP addresses
for node names when a node is the first arg, so commands
like
  mininet> h2 ping h3
should work.

Default Users

There are 2 default users setup with passwordless usdo and username/password of:

• vagrant/vagrant
  • The vagrant user also has a .ssh/authorized_keys file matching the commonly used vagrant insecrure_private_key.
• openflow/openflow

Netoworking

• eth0: The first interface configured in virtualbox is the default NAT interface using the intel driver.
• eth1: configured to be on hostonly network vboxnet0 with ip address of 192.168.33.253 and virt-io driver.

Build the Basebox from scratch

The creation of this basebox was automated with the vewee tool. Details of the build configuration are in the definitions/ directory, and can be used to recreate the basebox from iso.

vagrant basebox build 'quetzal64'
vagrant basebox validate 'quetzal64'
vagrant basebox export 'quetzal64'
vagrant box add quetzal64
vagrant up
vagrant ssh