Notice
This post was originally hosted on my Wiki site as Setting up a Network Simulator Station. I’m migrating my technical content from that site to my Software Engineering focused site. The content of this article was last modified 3 July 2007, so I’ve given this post that date. Obviously, the formatting of the article has been more recently updated (Feb 2008), but the content was retained.
Introduction
At the MPC Lab, we have a powerful server that we use to run big network simulations. However, I would like to develop my simulations and applications without necessarily being connected to this server. My solution is to create a local version of the server in a VM-Ware image. Ideally, if something works in the virtual machine, then it will work on the server.
I’ve also found that having this image around is very useful for other purposes… specifically avoiding the head-ache of setting up all these simulators and tools on each person’s computer when they join the lab. Since I can just give them an image of a working machine, they are guaranteed to be able to get going. Also, if someone chooses to install all these tools on their local system, the VM can be used as a reference.
These instructions will take a vanilla Ubuntu VMWare image and install the following network simulators and tools on it in a ’shared machine configuration’. If you spot an error or want to suggest a feature, please email me at dstovall@mail.utexas.edu.
