Installing NetASM

Instructions for creating a NetASM VM using VirtualBox

Download and setup the VirtualBox

• Download Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS image from http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server

• To boot and log in to the VM, follow the "Boot VM" and "Log in to VM" instructions at http://mininet.org/vm-setup-notes/

• Update the VirtualBox

  $ sudo apt-get update

• Install Git

  $ sudo apt-get install git

Installing Haskell Platform

Perform the following steps to install Haskell platform on your machine:

• Change to root directory

  $ cd ~

• Install the haskell-platform package from the ubuntu install-base. This process may take some time (several minutes to tens of minutes) depending on the speed of your connection.

  $ sudo apt-get install haskell-platform

  Important: It’s been reported that the above command is failing on most of the VMs. If this is happening with you, install haskell using the following command instead.

  $ sudo apt-get install ghc6

• To test if the haskell platform is installed correctly, run ghci (a haskell interpreter)

  $ ghci

• If installation is successful, you should see the following output:

  GHCi, version 7.6.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
  Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
  Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
  Loading package base ... linking ... done.
  Prelude>

• On the gchi terminal, type :quit to exit the ghci interpreter

  Prelude> :quit

Once the Haskell platform is setup, you are now ready to install NetASM.

Installing NetASM

Perform the following steps to install NetASM on your machine:

• Change to root directory

  $ cd ~/

• Clone the NetASM-haskell repository

  $ git clone https://github.com/NetASM/NetASM-haskell.git

To test if NetASM is working on your VM, run the Hub example.

• Change to NetASM-haskell root directory

  cd ~/NetASM-haskell

• Run the Hub example

  $ runhaskell Apps/Hub/Run.hs

• If this test run is successful, you should see the following output:

  [[("PID",(1,True)),("DRP",(0,True)),("inport",(1,True)),("outport",(2147483646,True))]
  [("PID",(1,True)),("DRP",(0,True)),("inport",(1,True)),("outport",(2147483645,True))]]
  
  "Instructions executed: 2"