added a first, early prototype of the emulator CLI
diff --git a/emuvim/cli/son-emu-cli b/emuvim/cli/son-emu-cli
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""
+ Simple CLI client to interact with a running emulator.
+
+ The CLI offers different tools, e.g., compute, network, ...
+ Each of these tools is implemented as an independent Python
+ module.
+
+ cli compute start dc1 my_name flavor_a
+ cli network create dc1 11.0.0.0/24
+"""
+
+import sys
+import compute
+import network
+
+
+def main():
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        print "Usage: son-emu-cli <toolname> <arguments>"
+        exit(0)
+    if sys.argv[1] == "compute":
+        compute.main(sys.argv[2:])
+    elif sys.argv[1] == "network":
+        network.main(sys.argv[2:])
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()