Virtual Machine

We build a virtual machine which enable users to use lightweight, reproducible, and portable IoT-LAB development environments. The virtual machine is configured with IoT-LAB Github repository, all command-line tools like CLI, SSH-CLI or WSCLI, toolchains compilation (arm-gcc) and much more.

Requirement

The official IoT-LAB virtual machine is building with Packer tool. You can view the Github repository with the IoT-LAB packer configuration. For running the virtual machine on your computer you need to install VirtualBox.

Example of installation on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:

$ sudo add-apt-repository multiverse && sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Up and Running

The virtual machine is available in two formats hosted on the IoT-LAB Website:

Vagrant is a virtual machine environment management tool. The vagrant box is also hosted in the official Vagrant cloud.

Start the virtual machine with Vagrant box file

$ wget https://www.iot-lab.info/vagrant-box/iotlab-vm.box .
$ vagrant box add --name iotlab iotlab-vm.box
$ vagrant init iotlab
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

Start the virtual machine with Vagrant Cloud

$ vagrant init iotlab/iotlab-vm 
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

Start the virtual machine without Vagrant

If you don’t want to use Vagrant you can download the OVA file and just import it directly in Virtualbox.

$ wget https://www.iot-lab.info/vagrant-box/iotlab-vm.ova .