Good idea on FAQ! I just stole the answer from this thread and put it on https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/FAQ#wiki-vm-gui-mininethost with minimal editing. Let me know if it does not look ok. :)
Eric On Apr 20, 2013, at 2:33 AM, Murphy McCauley <murphy.mccau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Using a graphical browser requires that you get X11 traffic out of your > Mininet host namespace and into the environment where you actually have an X > display. There are any number of ways you might do this. The way I do it is > ugly but relatively easy for me. It's something like the following. > > My X display is generally my actual Mac OS host environment. My host > environment has 192.168.56.1. The Mininet VM has 192.168.56.101. > > In short, I run sshd inside Mininet's h1. I then SSH from my host > environment to the Mininet VM with X forwarding, and then SSH from the > Mininet VM into h1 with X forwarding. I do this with the dillo web browser > sometimes. In theory it should work with Firefox too. > > Open three terminals in the host environment (Term1, Term2, Term3) > > On Term1: > 1a) ./pox.py forwarding.l2_learning # Run an OpenFlow controller > > On Term2: > 2a) ssh -Y mininet@192.168.56.101 # SSH into the Mininet VM with X forwarding > 2b) sudo mn --topo=linear,2 --mac --controller=remote,ip=192.168.56.1:6633 > 2c) h1 /usr/sbin/sshd # From the mininet> prompt, run sshd inside the h1 > namespace > > On Term3: > 3a) ssh -Y mininet@192.168.56.101 # SSH into the Mininet VM with X forwarding > 3b) sudo ifconfig s1 10.12.12.12 # Give the internal adapter for s1 an address > 3c) ssh -Y mininet@10.0.0.1 # SSH into the Mininet h1 namespace with X > forwarding > 3d) xeyes # Run X app > > > Hope that helps. > > -- Murphy > > On Apr 19, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Eric Chou wrote: > >> You can install Firefox and use 'sudo firefox &' to launch Firefox, assuming >> you have set up X forwarding. For mininet, so far I just installed and use >> Lynx. A quick check is to use Python simple web server: >> >> mininet> h1 python -m SimpleHTTPServer 80 & >> mininet> xterm h2 >> >> Then in h2 use 'lynx http://10.0.0.1'. >> >> Anybody knows how to use a graphical web browser from hosts in Mininet? >> >> Eric >> >> On Apr 19, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Chandana Pathapatti <chandana....@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Is it possible to open a browser inside Virtual box and mininet topology? >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Chandana >>> http://www.sahajmarg.org/sm/why-meditate >>> _______________________________________________ >>> openflow-discuss mailing list >>> openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu >>> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss >> >> _______________________________________________ >> openflow-discuss mailing list >> openflow-discuss@lists.stanford.edu >> https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/openflow-discuss >
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