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The Cloonix network emulator continues to be actively developed. In version 53, it provides container support, a rootless installation option, experimental support for WiFi emulation, and a simplified user experience.
Antidote is the network emulator that runs the labs on the Network Reliability Labs web site. You may install a standalone version of Antidote on your personal computer using the Vagrant virtual environment provisioning tool. In this post, I show you how to run Antidote on a Linux system with KVM, instead of VirtualBox, on
I want to show you how to configure a host server so, when it is shut down, it executes a script that runs commands on any running virtual machines before the host tries to stop them. I will configure the host server to wait until the script completes configuring the virtual machines before continuing with
Google Cloud Platform introduced nested virtualization support in September 2017. Nested virtualization is especially interesting to network emulation research since it allow users to run unmodified versions of popular network emulation tools like GNS3, EVE-NG, and Cloonix on a cloud instance. Google Cloud supports nested virtualization using the KVM hypervisor on Linux instances. It does
Packet is a hardware-as-a-service vendor that provides dedicated servers on demand at very low cost. For me and my readers, Packet offers a solution to the problem of using cloud services to run complex network emulation scenarios that require hardware-level support for virtualization. Packet users may access powerful servers that empower them to perform activities
I attended the Netdev 2.1 Conference in Montreal from April 6 to 8. Netdev is a community-driven conference mainly for Linux networking developers and developers whose applications rely on code in the Linux kernel networking subsystem. It focuses very tightly on Linux kernel networking and on how packets are handled through the Linux kernel as
I need to determine the maximum number of KVM virtual machines that can run on an average laptop computer. Unfortunately, I cannot find authoritative information about the maximum number of KVM virtual machines that can run on a host computer. Most information I could find about KVM limits does not publish absolute limits but, instead,
I recently configured an Amazon EC2 instance so that I could run the XFCE desktop environment on it and control it from my local laptop computer using SSH and VNC. But what if I want to use my iPad to do control the remote Amazon EC2 server? I want to experiment with complex network simulations
Having set up an Ubuntu Linux server running on a free micro-instance in Amazon’s Web Services EC2 service, I’d like to see how some of the open-source network simulation tools I’ve been using work in the cloud. First, I will install the CORE Network Emulator on my Amazon AWS EC2 virtual private server. Please read