Creating a Mininet VM from Scratch

These instructions cover the process of building a Mininet-capable VM from scratch, using Ubuntu 11.10. For setup instructions, see MininetVMSetupNotes.

Note: If you need to build on a non-Ubuntu distro, you are currently on your own. The included shell scripts may work on your platform, but significant changes are likely (e.g. yum vs. apt-get and different package names for Fedora.)

First, create a new Ubuntu 11.10 VM (using VMware, VirtualBox, etc..) We use user: openflow and password: openflow in our default VM, but any user/password combo should work as long as it has admin/sudo privileges.

Next, log in to the new VM and do the following:

wget https://raw.github.com/mininet/mininet/util/vm/install-mininet-vm.sh
time install-mininet-vm.sh

$ sudo mn --pingall

That's it!

For historical reference, we have also preserved the OldMininetVMCreationNotes.

-- BrandonHeller - 09 Feb 2010