Cloonix

What Cloonix is

Cloonix is a free, open-source framework for building virtual networks with KVM-based virtual machines, containers, and other network components. It runs as a user-land application on a Linux distribution, and a web platform is also listed. Users connect network items through Open vSwitch bridges and view the topology on a graphical canvas. Virtual machines use QEMU-KVM; crun containers can use ZIP files or directories as root filesystems. Network elements include NAT, host TAP and physical interfaces, links between Cloonix networks, and a packet transit component for dropping, shaping, or delaying traffic. The documentation names Open vSwitch, crun, QEMU-KVM, SPICE, and Wireshark as key external components. For supported interfaces, a Wireshark spy can display or save packet captures, but it is not the full Wireshark application. Wi-Fi emulation uses vwifi between QEMU-KVM machines and the iw command to place a physical interface in a container namespace. Cloonix is an AGPLv3 suite of C components. One installation requires administrative privileges; cloonix-toy does not.