Adding a LANforge Virtual Machine

Create a new guest instance.

1. When creating the guest, we should use 2 GB of RAM:

2. 20 GB of disk:

3. Omit a floppy drive, use a USB table as pointing device:

4. Allocate two or more cores and PAE/NX:

5. And the usual virtual processor features:

6. We don't need graphics on these nodes, so use minimum graphics memory:

7. Enable RDP access, that is useful. It might be a good habit to allocate separate RDP ports per host, we'll use 9134 for the first guest, 9135 for the second

8. Enable Host I/O caching for your SATA device. Specify the Fedora 27 Server ISO image as the DVD:

9. Disable Audio

10. Configure the network adapter to:

    1. Use the LAN bridged adapter br0

    2. Use a server adapter driver

    3. Enable Promiscuous Mode to allow sniffing

11. Start the installation

12. Under System Automatic partitioning should be adequate for general use.

    1. If you develop on these image (do lots of updates, install new kernels) reserve 1GB for /boot

13. Set the root password to lanforge. Click Done twice.

14. Add user LANforge:

    1. Make user lanforge an Administrator

    2. Set password to lanforge

    3. Click Done twice

15. When installation finishes, reboot. You will see a login prompt:

16. Login as root. Do updates:

    [root@localhost]# dnf update -y

17. Install perl:

    [root@localhost]# dnf install -y perl

18. Set guest's hostname:

    [root@localhost]# hostnamectl --static set-hostname atlas-fedora27s01

19. Reboot:

    [root@localhost]# shutdown -r now

Install LANforge on the guest instance. Start by logging in as root:

1. Use wget (or curl) to download lf_kinstall.txt:

   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# cd /root
   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# curl -o lf_kinstall.pl http://www.candelatech.com/lf_kinstall.txt
   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# chmod +x lf_kinstall.pl

2. You don't need to do a burn in, so toggle that off:

   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# touch /home/lanforge/did_cpuburn

3. Install LANforge:

   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# ./lf_kinstall.pl --lfver 5.3.7 --kver 4.13.16+ --do_all_ct

4. You can disable the VNC Server and Xrdp services on these guests:

   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# systemctl stop vncserver@\:1 xrdp.service
   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# systemctl disable vncserver@\:1 xrdp.service
   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# systemctl daemon-reload

   

5. You will notice that we have about 6GB of disk space left in this VM

6. When installation finishes, reboot:

   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# shutdown -r now

7. On next boot, you will see a LANforge kernel option, it should be automatically selected:

From your LANforge GUI, configure a MAC-VLAN the on default Ethernet port.

1. In the LANforge GUI, choose the Port Mgr tab, and highlight the new enp0s17 port:

2. Click the Create button

3. create one MAC-VLAN port

   1. Select MAC-VLAN

   2. Quantity: 1

   3. Select DHCP-IPv4

   4. Click Apply

4. You will see the new port in the GUI:

5. In the guest VM, you will also see the new port:

   [root@localhost]# ip a show

   

Add a second VM

1. Shut down the previous VM:

   [root@atlas-fedora27s01]# shutdown -r now

2. clone the VM

   1. Select the Reinitialize MAC addresses choice, these machine will operate simultaneously.

   2. Verify the MAC address of the new guest is set

   3. Boot the second guest

3. Change the hostname of the second guest:

   [root@localhost]# hostnamectl --static set-hostname atlas-fedora27s02

   

4. Make sure that the MAC address of the second guest is not listed in the ifcfg-enp0s17 file.

   1. Compare the adapter to the file:

      [root@localhost]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
      [root@localhost]# cat ifcfg-enp0s17

   2. If it is listed, change it or remove it.

5. LANforge changes the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file, edit tht file those as to match the value of your mac address.

   [root@localhost]# cd /etc/udev/rules.d
   [root@localhost]# ip li show enp0s17
   [root@localhost]# cat 70-persistent-net.rules

6. Stop LANforge and change the resource ID for this guest:

   [root@localhost]# service lanforge stop
   [root@localhost]# cd /home/lanforge
   [root@localhost]# ./lfconfig
   Your command: resource 5
   Your command: config

   

7. Reboot the second guest:

   [root@localhost]# shutdown -r now

8. Start up your first guest (resource 4)

9. In your LANforge GUI, you should see your two VMs.

10. Create a MAC-VLAN port for the second guest

Create a VOIP connection between the two guests.

1. In the VOIP tab, click Create

2. You configure:

   1. Side-A will be resource 3

   2. Side-B will be resource 4

   3. Click Apply

3. See the newly created connection:

4. In the VOIP/RPT tab, click Start

5. Monitor traffic on the connection with the Modify->View button