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29 # vim-emu: A NFV multi-PoP emulation platform
31 This emulation platform was created to support network service developers to locally prototype and test their network services in realistic end-to-end multi-PoP scenarios. It allows the execution of real network functions, packaged as Docker containers, in emulated network topologies running locally on the developer's machine. The emulation platform also offers OpenStack-like APIs for each emulated PoP so that it can integrate with MANO solutions, like OSM. The core of the emulation platform is based on [Containernet](https://containernet.github.io).
33 The emulation platform `vim-emu` is developed as part of OSM's DevOps MDG.
37 This software was originally developed by the [SONATA project](http://www.sonata-nfv.eu), funded by the European Commission under grant number 671517 through the Horizon 2020 and 5G-PPP programs.
41 If you use the emulation platform for your research and/or other publications, please cite the following paper to reference our work:
43 * M. Peuster, H. Karl, and S. v. Rossem: [MeDICINE: Rapid Prototyping of Production-Ready Network Services in Multi-PoP Environments](http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7919490/). IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), Palo Alto, CA, USA, pp. 148-153. doi: 10.1109/NFV-SDN.2016.7919490. (2016)
47 There are multiple ways to install and use the emulation platform. The easiest way is the automated installation using the OSM installer. The bare-metal installation requires a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and is done by an ansible playbook. Another option is to use a nested Docker environment to run the emulator inside a Docker container.
49 ### Automated installation (recommended)
52 ./install_osm.sh --lxdimages --vimemu
55 This command will install OSM (as LXC containers) as well as the emulator (as a Docker container) on a local machine. It is recommended to use a machine with Ubuntu 16.04.
57 ### Manual installation
59 #### Option 1: Bare-metal installation
62 sudo apt-get install ansible git aptitude
65 ##### Step 1. Containernet installation
69 git clone https://github.com/containernet/containernet.git
70 cd ~/containernet/ansible
71 sudo ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local install.yml
74 ##### Step 2. vim-emu installation
78 git clone https://osm.etsi.org/gerrit/osm/vim-emu.git
80 sudo ansible-playbook -i "localhost," -c local install.yml
83 #### Option 2: Nested Docker Deployment
84 This option requires a Docker installation on the host machine on which the emulator should be deployed.
87 git clone https://osm.etsi.org/gerrit/osm/vim-emu.git</code>
89 # build the container:
90 docker build -t vim-emu-img .
91 # run the (interactive) container:
92 docker run --name vim-emu -it --rm --privileged --pid='host' -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock vim-emu-img /bin/bash
100 This simple example shows how to start the emulator with a simple topology (terminal 1) and how to start (terminal 2) some empty VNF containers in the emulated datacenters (PoPs) by using the vim-emu CLI.
102 * First terminal (start the emulation platform):
103 * `sudo python examples/default_single_dc_topology.py`
104 * Second terminal (use `docker exec vim-emu <command>` for nested Docker deployment):
105 * `vim-emu compute start -d dc1 -n vnf1`
106 * `vim-emu compute start -d dc1 -n vnf2`
107 * `vim-emu compute list`
109 * `containernet> vnf1 ifconfig`
110 * `containernet> vnf1 ping -c 2 vnf2`
112 A more advanced example that includes OSM can be found in the [official vim-emu documentation in the OSM wiki](https://osm.etsi.org/wikipub/index.php/VIM_emulator).
114 ### Further documentation and useful links
116 * [Official vim-emu documentation in the OSM wiki](https://osm.etsi.org/wikipub/index.php/VIM_emulator)
117 * [Full CLI command documentation](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/CLI-Command-Overview)
118 * [Requirements for Docker containers executed by the emulator](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/Container-Requirements)
119 * [REST API](https://github.com/sonata-nfv/son-emu/wiki/APIs)
120 * [Mininet](http://mininet.org)
121 * [Containernet](https://containernet.github.io)
122 * [Maxinet](https://maxinet.github.io)
126 ### How to contribute?
128 Please check [this OSM wiki page](https://osm.etsi.org/wikipub/index.php/Workflow_with_OSM_tools) to learn how to contribute to a OSM module.
132 To run the unit tests do:
136 * (To force Python2: `sudo python2 -m pytest -v`)
138 ## Seed code contributors:
142 * Manuel Peuster (https://github.com/mpeuster)
143 * Steven Van Rossem (https://github.com/stevenvanrossem)
147 * Hadi Razzaghi Kouchaksaraei (https://github.com/hadik3r)
148 * Wouter Tavernier (https://github.com/wtaverni)
149 * Geoffroy Chollon (https://github.com/cgeoffroy)
150 * Eduard Maas (https://github.com/edmaas)
151 * Malte Splietker (https://github.com/splietker)
152 * Johannes Kampmeyer (https://github.com/xschlef)
153 * Stefan Schneider (https://github.com/StefanUPB)
157 The emulation platform is published under Apache 2.0 license. Please see the LICENSE file for more details.
161 Manuel Peuster (Paderborn University) <manuel@peuster.de>