Towards SmartFlow: Case Studies on Enhanced Programmable Forwarding in OpenFlow Switches

Sigcomm2012 demo

INSTALLATION

• You can download a prebuilt VirtualBox image from our project page.

• Alternatively, you can create your own VM image by following these steps:

  1. Download the official mininet image. (We used vm-ubuntu11.10-052312.vmware).
  2. Create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox with the downloaded disk image.
  3. Start the VM. Login with openflow/openflow.
  4. Mount the Guest Additions disk image by selecting Devices>Install Guest Additions menu item in the VirtualBox menu bar.
  5. Inside the VM, type:

   wget https://github.com/nemethf/sigcomm2012/raw/master/install_demo.sh
   sh ./install_demo.sh
  

RUNNING THE DEMO

Log in, type: startx, and follow the walkthrough text appearing in the top-right corner.

CONTACT

nemethf@tmit.bme.hu