Virtual Networking Environment

I have worked with Kristian J. Dorland, Lars M. Kristensen, Theis L. Kristensen, Paul Fleischer to create a really slick virtual networking environment. It's mostly designed to teach students TCP/IP networking.

We used VMWare, but with a twist: Our VMWare ran Ubuntu and then inside Ubuntu we used User Mode Linux to create the virtualization.

Last year I and some others built a Web 2.0 interface for managing VMWare and that project was a blast. This time around we chose to implement the GUI in Java, mostly because it would make it easier for others to update the interface.

Some screenshots:

• VNE Desktop
• How our Java GUI looks like
• A VNE lab is running

You can get started here:

• Introduction to the Virtual Networking Environment (VNE)

VNE is already used by students.