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The first step is to complete the first three steps of the ONOS from Scratch [OLD] tutorial. So only do the VM preparation, install required software, and setup the build environment. Don't bother creating a cell definition, nor packaging and deploying ONOS. This document has new instructions for those steps.

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Containers are very convenient since we can automatically obtain their IPs. This is what my cell definition looks like; you want to put this in a file in onos/tools/test/cells/. You definitely want to verify if the ONOS_NIC variable corresponds to your system settings, and also OCN which points to the machine where Mininet is running. Feel free to customize the ONOS_FEATURESAPPS to your liking. Finally, you have to reload the cell if you create additional containers, so the new IPs get picked up.

# LXC-based multi ONOS instance & LINC-OE mininet box
export ONOS_NIC=10.0.3.*
I=1
for CONTAINER in $( sudo lxc-ls ); do
 IP=`sudo lxc-ls --fancy -F ipv4 $CONTAINER | tail -1`
 export OC${I}=${IP}
 let I=I+1
done
export OCI=$OC1
export OCN="192.168.56.9"
export ONOS_FEATURESAPPS="webconsole,onos-api,onos-core,onos-cli,onos-openflow,onos-app-fwd,onos-app-optical,onos-gui,onos-rest,onos-app-proxyarpdrivers,openflow,proxyarp,optical,bgprouter"
export ONOS_USER=ubuntu
export ONOS_GROUP=ubuntu

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Finally, log out of the container by pressing Ctrl-d or typing exit.

Cloning Your Container

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We're now ready to make as many clones of the original container as you want ONOS instances. Repeat the following steps as many times as you'd like, giving each new container a unique name.

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