Fedora7

Installing VNUML over Fedora 7

This HowTo describes how to install VNUML over a fresh Fedora 7 installation. Note that it is a preliminary version. Let us know if it does not work for you.

Important note:
Do not use <consoles> with id=0 (use id="1" instead). For example, edit your scenarios and change: <console id="0">xterm</console> to: <console id="1">xterm</console> If you use console id="0" the scenarios will start and work normally, but the virtual machines will hang when stopping the scenario using "-d" option.

Installation steps:

1. Install Fedora 7 and make sure basic development tools are installed.
2. Update the system with:

yum update

3. Install the following packages needed by VNUML:

yum install bridge-utils readline-devel perl-Module-Build screen expat-devel libpcap-devel

4. Install the following perl modules:

perl -MCPAN -e "install Net::Pcap; Net::IPv6Addr; NetAddr::IP"

If any of the modules does not install correctly, try with "force". For example:

perl -MCPAN -e "force install Net::Pcap"

5. Install uml_utilities:

wget http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade/uml-utilities/uml_utilities_20060323.tar.bz2
tar xfvj uml_utilities_20060323.tar.bz2
cd tools-20030323
make 
make install

6. Install VNUML kernel. Download "linux-um" package from VNUML site and: <7li> cd /usr/share tar xfvz linux-um_2.6.18.1-bb2-xt-2m.orig.tar.gz ln -s linux-um_2.6.18.1-bb2-xt-2m linux-um mv linux-um/linux-um_2.6.18.1-bb2-xt-2m /usr/share/vnuml/kernels ln -s /usr/share/vnuml/kernels/linux-um_2.6.18.1-bb2-xt-2m /usr/share/vnuml/kernels/linux
7. Install root_fs. Download root-fs-instaler installer script from http://www.dit.upm.es/vnumlwiki/index.php/Root-fs-installer and:

 cd /usr/share/vnuml/filesystems
 perl root-fs-instaler

8. Create ssh keys with:

 ssh-keygen -t rsa1

9. Test the installation with:

 cd /usr/share/vnuml/examples:
 vnumlparser.pl -t simple.xml -v -u root