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If you are using Mininet in a VM or on a physical server, it is easy to use onos.py to start up a complete emulated ONOS network, including ONOS cluster, modeled control network, and data network.
This simplifies development on a laptop, because you can run a single development VM (or no VM at all if you are running on a Linux machine!) Moreover, it is more efficient than a multi-VM setup because the entire emulated network lives in a single VM and shares a single Linux kernel.
Chances are you're already using Mininet, so it's nice to be able to start an ONOS cluster using Mininet itself without installing or configuring additional software.
Note: This is work in progress - if you wish to try it now, you will need to get onos.py from the following patch: https://gerrit.onosproject.org/#/c/9143/
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