Mininet->xterm in remote VBox using putty+xming under Windows platform

Graphical interface for Mininet

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The MININET-VM downloaded from the Mininet website is actually not with the graphical interface, so the xterm cannot be used after the installation is complete. So this article summarizes some tools on the net and concludes the following scenarios:

Here's how to do this:

Host OS is Windows.

Tools for xming and putty,xming need to install, putty directly to EXE program, directly run.

Xming is a server that manages and maintains communication between remote and local.

Putty connect to Remote Desktop.

Before you begin, make sure that your VM has a host-only adapter (get an IP address, and a local host in the same network segment) to communicate with the host.

The host-only address of the VM in this article is 192.168.56.101.

Start the remote mininet, which is the Mininet terminal under VBox.

Then turn on the Xming service, similar to the icon below.

Run putty and open it as follows:

1. In basic option, the page that appears, there is an input hostname/ip where the IP address of the VM is entered.

2. Select connection->ssh->x11, tick enableing X11 forwarding

3. Click Open to complete the

With this three-step operation, you can open the Remote Desktop (that is, the black window of mininet) by clicking Open:

Log in with Mininet's account and password;

It then uses the xterm to open the terminal and use the IPERF traffic tool on it, just as it does under vm-mininet.

Specific IPERF Command Reference Https://iperf.fr/iperf-doc.php#doc

In addition, in mininet, support Wireshark, can be run again before the network to open Wireshark

Commands are: sudo wireshark &

In filter, select the package of the OpenFlow protocol. or other filters.

Mininet->xterm in remote VBox using putty+xming under Windows platform