Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of GENI-in-a-Box


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09/07/12 13:38:10 (12 years ago)
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Vic Thomas
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  • GENI-in-a-Box

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    33== What is GENI-in-a-Box? ==
    4 GENI-in-a-Box is intended to help you get started with GENI without having to apply and get approved for a GENI account.  You can use GENI-in-a-Box to set up and run experiments just as you would with using resources from a real GENI aggregate.  With GENI-in-a-Box all the resources you use exist within a virtual machine running on your computer.
     4GENI-in-a-Box is intended to help you get started with GENI without having to apply and get approved for a GENI account.  You can use GENI-in-a-Box to set up and run experiments just as you would with using resources from a real GENI aggregate.  With GENI-in-a-Box all the resources you use exist within a [http://https://www.virtualbox.org VirtualBox] virtual machine running on your computer.
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    6 The figure below is a schematic of the GENI-in-a-Box.  GENI-in-a-Box is distributed as a  [http://https://www.virtualbox.org VirtualBox] virtual machine image that you download and import into !VirtualBox running on your computer.  The virtual machine includes the [http://trac.gpolab.bbn.com/gcf/wiki/Omni Omni] experiment control tool and an aggregate that makes up to six virtual machines available for experimentation.   You can connect these virtual machines to form any topology you wish so long as the topology does not require more than three NICs on any machine.  GENI standard rspecs are used to specify desired topologies and to specify any software to be installed and executed on these machines.  You can also ssh into these machines.
     6The figure below is a schematic of the GENI-in-a-Box.  The GENI-in-a-Box  !VirtualBox VM includes the [http://trac.gpolab.bbn.com/gcf/wiki/Omni Omni] experiment control tool, a clearinghouse used to create slices and an aggregate manager that makes resources available for experimentation.  The resources available from the GENI-in-a-Box aggregate manager are up to six virtual machines running Linux.  Each of these virtual machines has three NICs.  They can be connected to form any topology that does not require more than six nodes and more than three NICs on a node.  GENI standard rspecs are used to specify the machines, links and topology required by the experiment.
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     8Experimenters have root access to the virtual machines used in their experiment.  They can use ssh to connect to and log into these machines.
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    1113== Can I move my experiments from GENI-in-a-Box to real resources in the GENI infrastructures? ==
    12 This depends on
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     16GENI-in-a-Box is most similar to the GENI ProtoGENI aggregate in that both
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    1420== What are the limitations of GENI-in-a-Box? ==