Then, click the “Continue” button to get to the Appliance Settings screen. Navigate to the folder containing the mininet-2.1. file and select it.
In the next screen, click the “Open appliance” button.
To import the Mininet virtual machine, use the VirtualBox menu command: File → Import Appliance Start the VirtualBox manager application on your host system. Next, create a version of the Mininet virtual machine that will run in VirtualBox by importing the Mininet virtual machine into the VirtualBox program Import the virtual machine into VirtualBox The folder will contain the following files: mininet-vm-x86_64.vmdk To decompress the archive, double-click on the mininet-2.1. file to automatically launch the archive application or use the following command in the terminal window: $ tar -xvf mininet-2.1. This file is a compressed ZIP archive containing two files so, after downloading it, decompress it and save the files to my hard drive. I chose the latest version available, which was mininet-2.1. Download the Mininet virtual machineĭownload the Mininet virtual machine (VM) from. On a computer running Windows, you need to download and install the required SSH and X-server software (I recommend PuTTY and XMing). On the Linux desktop distributions, the SSH and X-server software are already available. See the Apple Support web sit for more details at. You must install the XQuartz X server from. The Mac OS X operating system comes with SSH software but does not come with an X server already installed. I set up the Mininet virtual machine on my Apple iMac computer. For my own reference, and to help anyone else who will install Mininet, I list the procedure I followed in the post, below. While I was following the procedure described in these notes, I found a few points where some more information would have been helpful. The Mininet web site provides detailed setup notes, describing how to download and use the Mininet virtual machine. It is based on the Ubuntu Linux Server operating system and comes with all the software and tools required to support Mininet already installed. The easiest way to get started using the Mininet network simulator is to use the Mininet virtual machine.
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