SDN-Openflow-Controller-VMs Files

Ignore the "Looking for the latest version?" nonsense. It's just pointing to whichever file I uploaded that has the latest creation/modification date. It points to floodlight at the moment, but it'll likely start pointing at the documentation, since I haven't had a chance to create those PDF files yet. 

The documentation on how to not only use these VMs either in a GNS3 topology, or in VMware/Virtualbox on their own will be provided here:   


I'll also have instructions on how to create your own versions of these VMs, since they are rather large, once decompressed. I used Ubuntu 14.04.4 server to create them, except for the ONOS and Floodlight VMs (they were  built on 16.04 server), since I made a concerted effort to use OpenJDK, instead of Oracle Java. When building your own VMs, I'd actually recommend using Oracle Java, since both ONOS and Floodlight  were created with it in mind. They work with OpenJDK 8, but you'll run into some random compile issues that just don't occur when using Oracle Java. Also, since OpenJDK 8 was never officially backported to Trusty, you can install Java 8 from Oracle, to run these on Trusty, if you want.  I don't know about the latest and greatest version of OpenDaylight, but Beryllium-SR2 (which I used) works fine with OpenJDK 7, and Ryu uses python, so there's no issues there. 


I can only include the instructions for creating your own HPE-VAN Controller, since you must register with HPE in order to download the 30 day trial (don't worry, it'll work longer than that). You would also want to purchase Flowmaker Deluxe for it, from northboundnetworks.com, since it allows you to create flow entries in VAN's web GUI.

I highly recommend that anyone who wants to learn as much as possible about using these, to take David Bombal's SDN/Openflow fundamentals course (that's why I created these VMs to begin with). Not only does he go into detail on how they work, as well as show practical examples, students also get a coupon code to get Flowmaker Deluxe for free.

I'll include a section in the Mininet document that briefly touches on their MiniEdit GUI (which means you could always use Mininet as a standalone VM, if you choose), but I've not used it extensively, so I'll include links to resources that cover it in more detail. 


Discovered a minor issue with the floodlight VMs (basically, even though I gave them the hostname "floodlight" during install, Xenial still put "ubuntu" in /etc/hosts). Instead of writing a workaround, I fixed the issue and am reuploading the images. Once they're uploaded, I'll start uploading the documentation, and everything will be ready to rock.