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One of the interesing ways ns-3 simulations can be integrated with real hardware is to create a simulated network and use "real" hosts to drive the network. Often, the number of real hosts is relatively large, and so acquiring that number of real computers would be prohibitively expensive. It is possible to use virtualization technology to create software implementations, called virtual machines, that execute software as if they were real hosts.
If you have not done so, we recommend going over
main points of using simulation software is that you don't have
to buy lots of hardware in order to investigate large configurations. We have a realtime emulation package that allows us to connect ns-3 to real networks on real machines. The problem, of course, is that you need lots of real machines to run real programs. Using VMware, we replace "real machines" with "virtual machines" and configure virtual networks of virtual machines instead of having to work with tons of real hardware.
HOWTO use VMware to set up virtual networks (Windows)
1. Get the VMware server software
a. You may read in various release notes or documentation that you need
Microsoft servers of various kinds. This is not the case. You can
run VMware server on XP just fine;
b. Go to http://www.vmware.com/download/server/ to get the software;
c. Select the Download Now button (download as usual);
d. Install the software in the usual way;
e. Ignore warnings about requiring Microsoft IIS to continue.
Craigdo 17:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
