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Prerequisites and Setup for the Tutorial

1. Install and Prepare VirtualBox

2. Prepare the Build VM and ONOS VM

• • Create ONOS VM

    • Install Ubuntu
    • During the Ubuntu installation

  • Once the VM starts up

  • Create a Build machine

3. Install required software

• • On the Build machine

    • git
    • Karaf, Maven
    • Java
    • Clone the ONOS source

  • On the ONOS machine

    • Java

4. Set up your build environment

• • Environmental variables

  • Build ONOS

5. Create a custom cell definition

• • A quick intro to cells
  • Create a cell definition file
  • Applying a cell

6. Package and deploy ONOS

1. • Passwordless VM access

   • Creating the package

   • Deploying the package

What’s next?

Overview

If you have come across Installing and Running ONOS, you'll notice that there are several ways to install and run ONOS. This tutorial focuses on showing you one of several useful deployment methods - ONOS packaged from source, and deployed in an Ubuntu VirtualBox VM using Windows, Linux or Mac OS X as an operation system on your computer.

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• Use cell definitions to configure the ONOS build environment to customize the ONOS package
• Configure which modules the ONOS binary loads by default
• Install ONOS on a VM using the onos-install utility
• Access the CLI and monitor ONOS remotely

Conventions

Commands at the shell of the ONOS VM begin with $ (or sdn@onos-scratch:~$)  

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