## emu-vim
-### TODO
+### Requirements
+* needs the latest Dockernet to be installed in the system
+ * the wrapper uses standard Python imports to use the Dockernet modules
+* Uses ZeroMQ based RPC to open a cloud-like interface that can be used by a demo CLI client
+ * pip install import zerorpc
+ * This will be replaced / extended by a REST API later
+
+### Project structure
+* **emuvim/** all emulator code
+ * **api/** Data center API endpoint implementations (zerorpc, OpenStack REST, ...)
+ * **cli/** CLI client to interact with a running emulator
+ * **dcemulator/** Dockernet wrapper that introduces the notion of data centers and API endpoints
+ * **test/** Unit tests
+ * **example_topology.py** An example topology script to show how topologies can be specified
+
+### Run
+* First terminal:
+ * `sudo python example_topology.py`
+* Second terminal:
+ * TODO add CLI commands here (e.g. request the start of a new compute resource)
+
-* Add runtime API
-** call startAPI from topology definition and start it in a own thread?
-** make it possible to start different API endpoints for different DCs?
+### TODO
+* DCemulator
+ * correctly start and connect new compute resources at runtime
+ * remove and disconnect compute resources at runtime
+ * list active compute resources
+* Cloud-like reference API with CLI for demonstrations
+ * Write CLI client
+ * Start compute
+ * Stop compute
+* Re-factor endpoint API so that API objects can be more or less statless (ask DCEmulator for available DCs instead of maintaining a own list)
+* Create an Ansible-based automatic installation routine
* Add resource constraints to datacenters
-* Add constraints to Links
-* Check if we can use the Mininet GUI to visualize our DCs?
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+* Check if we can use the Mininet GUI to visualize our DCs?
+
+
+### Features
+* Define a topology (Python script)
+ * Add data centers
+ * Add switches and links between the,
+* Define API endpoints in topology
+ * call startAPI from topology definition and start it in a own thread
+ * make it possible to start different API endpoints for different DCs
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