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VNX Project Documentation

VNX documentation is made of the following documents:

Installation guides

• VNX Installation Guides
  • Testing VNX using Vagrant
  • VNX Installation Guide

• Downloading VNX root filesystems
• Updating VNX
• Modifying a VNX root filesystem
• Distributed VNX (EDIV) Installation Guide
• Installation Troubleshooting

Tutorials

• Quick recipes for the impatient
• One VM simple scenarios
• Basic tutorial scenarios:
  • KVM based tutorial
  • LXC based tutorial
  • Dynamips based tutorial
  • UML based tutorial (deprecated)
• EDIV Tutorial: deploying virtual scenarios over VNX clusters
• Connecting a virtual machine to external networks

Virtual machines creation how-to's

• How to create Ubuntu Vagrant virtual machine to run VNX virtual scenarios
• LXC root filesystems:
  • How to create a LXC Ubuntu root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create a LXC Debian root filesystem for VNX
• For KVM:
  • How to create a KVM Debian root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create a KVM Ubuntu root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create a KVM Fedora root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create a KVM FreeBSD root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create a KVM CentOS root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create a KVM Windows XP root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create a KVM Windows 7 root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create an KVM Olive (juniper router) root filesystem for VNX
• For User-Mode-Linux (UML): (beware that UML support in VNX is not maintained)
  • How to create a UML Debian root filesystem for VNX
  • How to create a UML Kernel for VNX
  • How to use DRAGON GMPLS UML root filesystem with VNX

User Manual

• VNX Console Management
• Autoconfiguration and Command Execution (ACE)
• Language Reference
• Troubleshooting
• VNX Extension plugins:
  • Description and API
  • Plugin examples:
    • Dummy
    • OSPF
    • DHCP
• Other How-to's:
  • How to create a kvm bios for Olive virtual routers