vnumlgui

A graphical user interface for VNUML

News

Version 0.7 released

This version contains several improvements :

• zoom to fit implemented, so the zoom factor fits the whole simulation
• layouts can be fetched from http, file and clipboards
• execute (vnumlparser.pl -x) is implemented, per machine, or for whole simulation
• you can now save the layout only
• you can cleanup the simulation directory (vnumlparser.pl -P) from the menu
• you can issue a forced release from the menu
• directory cleanup (vnumlparse -P) is supported
• several UI improvements

You can get it a the usual place.

Version 0.6 is out !

This version contains several improvements :

• anti-aliasing can be turned off/on to speed up display
• fast draw option can help display on low-end systems
• boot process speed-up improvement
• terminals (pts console, ssh, vtysh) can now be opened inside the simulation
• simulation releases can be 'forced'
• directory cleanup (vnumlparse -P) is supported
• several UI improvements

You can get it a the usual place.

What is it ?

vnumlgui is a graphical tool that can help you create, edit and run VNUML simulations, without having to create XML simulation files.

Foremost, vnumlgui is a topology editor with graphical capabilities. You will be able to virtually draw your network, placing routers (VMs) and switches (Nets). By linking them together, you'll be able to create any topology you need and conduct your network experiments.

With vnumlgui, you can create and run simple simulations from scratch in less than 1 minute. VNUML hides the UML learning curve, vnumlgui hides VNUML and XML learning curve.

Although the project in young and is still experimental, the current release is fully compliant with vnuml language version 1.5 and VNUML site examples that have been tested worked fine. Our EuroDOCSIS network simulation works perfectly too..

Requirements

In order to run vnumlgui, you'll need at least the following software and their respective dependancies properly installed on your computer.

• perl 5.6+
• Gtk2-perl 1.061+
• Gnome2-perl 1.020+
• Gnome2::VFS 1.003+
• Gnome2::Vte 0.04+
• Gtk2::GladeXML 1.001+
• Locale::gettext 1.01+
• vnmulparser.pl 1.5+ (only 1.5 really supported for now)

The above requirements shouldn't be a problem on recent modern distros (Ubuntu Hoary, Fedora Core 3, Mandriva).