High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) Demo VM Images

These are VirtualBox OVA images for the High-Performance Connectivity Tracer (HiPerConTracer) Demo. They are a showcase for the HiPerConTracer Framework. This directory contains the demo setup for current Debian, Ubuntu LTS, Fedora and FreeBSD versions. Just select the operation system variant of your choice.

See https://www.nntb.no/~dreibh/hipercontracer/ for a detailed description of HiPerConTracer!

💡 Description

Verify the signature:

gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 21412672518D8B2D1862EFEF5CD5D12AA0877B49
gpg --verify <IMAGE>.ova.asc <IMAGE>.ova

Import into VirtualBox (usually: via GUI), or alternatively via command line:
```
 vboxmanage import --options importtovdi <IMAGE>.ova
```
Boot the image, log in with:
- User: nornetpp
- Password: hpct4me!
HiPerConTracer is installed in the default directories of the operating system.
The installation was made by the test scripts, as described in HiPerConTracer Database Test Scripts.

Important paths:
- HiPerConTracer sources (cloned Git repository https://github.com/dreibh/hipercontracer):
  /home/nornetpp/src/hipercontracer
- Importer configurations (see HiPerConTracer Importer Tool):
  /home/nornetpp/test4hpct-importer-<database>.conf
- Database configurations (see HiPerConTracer Importer Tool):
  /home/nornetpp/test4hpct-<importer|researcher|maintainer|root>-<database>.conf

The image builder scripts can be found in https://github.com/simula/nornet-vmimage-builder-scripts. The images in this directory have been generated by the script make-hipercontracer-vms.