WORK IN PROGRESS
The content of this page is still work in progress, it will be ready for the ONOS 1.11 "Loon" release.
Developers Guide
The following steps will help you set up a development environment with Mininet, ONOS and BMv2 with P4Runtime support.
Before starting you need to download and set up a virtual machine with Mininet. The following instructions have been tested on the official Mininet 2.2.2 VM 64 Bit (Ubuntu 14.04), which you can find here.
Recommended minimum system requirements
In order to successfully build and execute the required tools, we recommend the following minimum system configuration:
- 4 GB of RAM
- 2 cores
- 8 GB free hard drive space (~4GB required to build P4 tools)
Walkthrough
This walkthrough demonstrates the necessary steps and commands to run a network of BMv2 devices in Mininet, controlled by ONOS using P4Runtime.
Clone ONOS repository. On your Mininet VM shell, type:
cd ~ git clone https://github.com/opennetworkinglab/onos.git
Source ONOS's bash_profile. On your Mininet VM shell, type:
echo "source ~/onos/tools/dev/bash_profile" > ~/.bashrc source ~/.bashrc
Important: replace .bashrc with your shell configuration profile (.bash_aliases, .profile, etc.)
Build and install P4 tools. We have prepared a special command to install everything in one shot! On your Mininet VM shell, simply type:
onos-setup-p4-dev
This command will download, build and install BMv2 (with the simple_switch_grpc target), P4Runtime libraries, the P4 compiler p4c, the old BMv2 compiler p4c-bmv2, and all required dependencies (including protobuf and gRPC). This command takes approx. 20 minutes to complete with the minimum system configuration described before.
if you run out of space on you mininet machine you can go inside the p4tools folder in the home directory:cd ~/p4tools
then go in one of the local directories, e.g. p4rutnime
cd p4runtime
and clean the make artifacts with
make clean
Build the example P4 programs. On your Mininet VM shell, type:
cd ~/onos/tools/test/p4src/p4-16/ make all
Start Mininet, using BMv2 simple_switch_grpc target. On your Mininet VM shell, type:
sudo -E mn --custom $BMV2_MN_PY --switch onosbmv2 --controller remote,ip=192.168.56.1
Be sure to use the correct IP address of your ONOS instance.
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