Mini-NDN in VirtualBox using vagrant.

[RECOMMENDED] Mini-NDN Vagrant Box

We have a Mini-NDN pre-installed in a vagrant box. The box can be found here. For suggested Mini-NDN resource allocation, Here's an example Vagrantfile:

# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "sdulal/mini-ndn"
  config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
    vb.memory = "4096"
    vb.cpus = "4"
    vb.name = "mini-ndn-box"
  end
end

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[NOT RECOMMENDED] Building from scratch with vagrant and VirtualBox containing Mini-NDN

• Download and install VirtualBox and Vagrant

  • https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads
  • https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

• To create and start fresh virtual machine:

  • Create a file called "Vagrantfile" with this basic setup:

    # -*- mode: ruby -*-
    # vi: set ft=ruby :
    Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
      config.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-20.04"
      config.disksize.size = '40GB'
      config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
        vb.memory = 4096
        vb.cpus = 4
        vb.name = "mini-ndn-box"
      end
    end
    

  • Open your terminal or command line in the directory that has Vagrantfile
  • Start the virtual machine with, $ vagrant up
  • (If required) The username/password for the vm are both vagrant.

• To install Mini-NDN, use the following commands:

  git clone https://github.com/named-data/mini-ndn.git
  cd mini-ndn
  ./install.sh --source
  

• To test mini-ndn:

  • while still in the mini-ndn directory, enter

    sudo python examples/mnndn.py
    

  • If it worked, You will see the Mini-NDN CLI. Enter exit to close the CLI.

(Additional optional "not really needed" steps)

• To clean and export vm as Vagrant Box:
  • while in vm, enter these to clean:

    cd
    sudo apt-get clean
    sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/EMPTY bs=1M
    sudo rm -f /EMPTY
    cat /dev/null > ~/.bash_history && history -c && exit
    

  • Close the vm window and open a terminal in the same directory as the Vagrantfile.
  • In the terminal, type this command where vb_name is the name of the vm defined in Vagrantfile, and box_name any name for the output .box file

    vagrant package --base vb_name --output box_name.box