Finishing Touches

So you have a brand new virtual machine set with NetCore and Mininet. Before you get started, take a minute to make sure your development environment is ready to go.

Pull the Latest NetCore

If you grabbed the pre-configured virtual machine, the local NetCore clone will almost certainly be out of date.

cd netcore
git pull
git submodule update

Git User/Email

If you plan to push changes to the central repository, it's handy to automatically tag your commits with your username and email:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Generate SSH Keys

It's also handy to set up SSH keys. Git has a nice help page.