VNX

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VNX Project Documentation

VNX (Virtualization over X) is the new release of the VNUML tool. VNX brings important new functionalities that overcome the most important limitations VNUML tool has:

• Integration of new virtualization platforms to allow virtual machines running other operating systems (Windows, FreeBSD, etc) apart from Linux. In this sense:
  • VNX uses libvirt to interact with the virtualization capabilities, allowing the use of most of the virtualization platforms available for Linux (KVM, Xen, etc)
  • Integrates Dynamips to allow limited emulation of CISCO routers
• Restart of individual virtual machines
• Autoconfiguration and command execution capabilities for several operating systems: Linux, FreeBSD and Windows (XP and 7).

Information for users

• VNX Installation Guide
• Example scenarios
• Troubleshooting
• Rootfilesystem creation How-to's:
  • How to create a Windows XP rootfilesystem for VNX
  • How to create a Windows 7 rootfilesystem for VNX
  • How to create a Ubuntu rootfilesytem for VNX
  • How to create a FreeBSD rootfilesytem for VNX
  • How to create an Olive (juniper router) rootfilesystem for VNX
  • How to create a Fedora rootfilesytem for VNX

Downloading VNX

You can download VNX from http://idefix.dit.upm.es/download/vnx

VNX Root filesystems are temporarily hosted in http://idefix.dit.upm.es/download/vnx/filesystems