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<li><a href="#intro">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#install">Installing hypview</a></li>
<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
<li><a href="#getting">Getting and unpacking the Emulab HyperViewer
client program</a></li>
<li><a href="building">Building the Emulab HyperViewer client
program from sources</a></li>
<li><a href="platforms">Supported platforms</a></li>
<li><a href="#getting_unix">Getting and unpacking the Emulab
HyperViewer
client program (Unix/Linux)</a></li>
<li><a href="#getting_windows">Getting and unpacking the Emulab
HyperViewer
client program (Windows)</a><br>
</li>
<li><a href="#building_unix">Building the Emulab HyperViewer client
program from sources (Unix/Linux)</a></li>
<li><a href="#building_windows">Building the Emulab HyperViewer
client
program from sources (Windows)</a></li>
<li><a href="#platforms">Supported platforms</a></li>
<li><a href="#dependencies">Package dependencies</a></li>
</ol>
<li><a href="#run">Running hypview as a script</a></li>
<li><a href="#gui">The hypview Graphical User Interface</a><br>
</li>
<li><a href="#gui">The hypview Graphical User Interface</a></li>
</ol>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<h3><a name="intro"></a>Introduction</h3>
<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">hypview</span> is
a client program which runs on your computer, and shows a 3D
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<a href="http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/recogn-bmp/LW436.jpg"><img
style="border: 2px solid ; width: 106px; height: 106px;" alt=""
title="Click for full-size image" src="LW436-thumb.jpg"></a><br>
<br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"><br>
<h3><a name="install"></a>Installing hypview</h3>
<h4><a name="getting"></a>Getting and unpacking the Emulab HyperViewer
client program:</h4>
<h4><a name="getting_unix"></a>Getting and unpacking the Emulab
HyperViewer
client program (Unix/Linux):</h4>
<ul>
<li>There are binary tarballs for <a
href="http://www.emulab.net/downloads/hyperviewer-FreeBSD.tgz">FreeBSD</a>
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next section on rebuilding hypview from sources.<br>
</div>
<br>
<h4><a name="building"></a>Building the Emulab HyperViewer client
program from sources</h4>
<h4><a name="getting_windows"></a>Getting and unpacking the Emulab
HyperViewer
client program (Windows):<br>
</h4>
<ul>
<li>You first need to download and install the Windows versions of
the following :</li>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.2.3/Python-2.2.3.exe">Python
2.2</a>, <a href="http://www.python.org/">(Python home page)</a><br>
</li>
<li><a
href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wxpython/wxPythonWIN32-2.4.2.4u-Py22.exe">wxWindows
2.4.2</a>, <a href="http://www.wxpython.org/">(wxWindows home page)</a><br>
</li>
<li><a
href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/pyopengl/PyOpenGL-2.0.0.44.win32-py2.2.exe?download">PyOpenGL
2.0.0.44</a>, <a href="http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/">(PyOpenGL
home page)</a></li>
</ul>
</ul>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Verify that it's all working by running
Start/Programs/wxPython 2.4/wxPython DEMO.&nbsp; Click the [+] to open
the "Objects using an external library" branch, click wxGLCanvas, then
the Cube and/or Cone buttons on the Demo tab.&nbsp; An OpenGL canvas
window should pop up.&nbsp; Moving <br>
</div>
<ul>
<li>There is a self-extracting WinZip exe for <a
href="http://www.emulab.net/downloads/hyperviewer-Win32.exe">Windows
2000 and XP</a>
now.&nbsp; There is a top-level hyperviewer directory in the exe, so
just unpack into the directory of your choice.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Test by running hypview.bat in the hyperviewer directory and
feeding it BigLan.hyp or ts600.hyp.&nbsp; You can double-click it and
use the File/Open menu command, or in a command shell, do this:<br>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>cd hyperviewer</big></pre>
</li>
</ul>
<pre style="margin-left: 80px;"><big>hypview.bat ts600.hyp<span
style="font-weight: bold;"></span></big></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">Notice that hypview runs <span
style="font-weight: bold;">only</span> in the hyperviewer directory
for now.<br>
</div>
<h4><a name="building_unix"></a>Building the Emulab HyperViewer client
program from sources (Unix/Linux)</h4>
Full sources for hypview and a version of the hyperviewer library are
included in the tarball.<br>
<br>
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<ul>
<li>To build the hypviewer C++ library and the _hv.so that is loaded
into Python:</li>
<ul>
<li>Edit the path to the ROOTDIR in
hyperviewer/hypviewer/Makefile.main to the absolute path to the
hyperviewer/hypviewer directory.&nbsp; (I'll find a way around that...)</li>
<li>Then use GNU make in the hyperviewer directory:<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<pre style="margin-left: 80px;"><big>cd hyperviewer<br>gmake -f GNUMakefile</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 120px;"><big>cd hyperviewer<br>gmake -f GNUMakefile</big></pre>
<ul>
<li>See
the ROADMAP file if you want to know more about internals.</li>
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<ul>
</ul>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
<pre><big>cd hyperviewer<br>./hypview BigLan.hyp</big><big><br>./hypview ts600.hyp</big>
</pre>
<pre><big>cd hyperviewer<br>./hypview BigLan.hyp</big><big><br>./hypview ts600.hyp<br></big></pre>
</div>
<h4><a name="platforms"></a>Supported platforms:</h4>
&nbsp;<br>
<h4><a name="building_windows"></a>Building the Emulab HyperViewer
client
program from sources (Windows)<br>
</h4>
Full sources for hypview and a version of the hyperviewer library are
included in the WinZip self-extracting exe file.&nbsp; You will need to
install Developer Studio 6 with Visual C++ and the Platform SDK (which
includes OpenGL.)&nbsp; VC++ and OpenGL documentation is on the MSDN
library disks.
<ul>
<li>To rebuild the hypviewer C++ library and the _hv.dll that gets
loaded
into Python, open the hv.dsw workspace in Developer Studio and hit F7.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>FreeBSD - The first target system.<br>
<li>In the hv.dsp project file, there's a custom build option on hv.i
that calls SWIG to generate _hv.cpp and hv.py.&nbsp; Files should be
up-to-date so you don't need SWIG unless you want to change
things.&nbsp; You can get it from <a
href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/swig/swigwin-1.3.21.zip">swigwin-1.3.21</a>,
<a href="http://www.swig.org/">(SWIG home page)</a>, and will need <a
href="http://www.winzip.com/">WinZip</a> to unpack it.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>See
the ROADMAP file if you want to know more about internals.</li>
</ul>
There are a couple of example files included:
<pre><big>cd hyperviewer<br>hypview.bat BigLan.hyp</big><big><br>hypview.bat ts600.hyp</big></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">
</div>
<h4><a name="platforms"></a>Supported platforms:</h4>
<ul>
<li>FreeBSD - The first target system.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>There is a bug in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">ATI
Radeon</span> DRI graphics card driver which "tatters" bitmap
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<pre>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Xlib:&nbsp; extension "XFree86-DRI" missing on display ":0.0".</pre>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Windows - The initial version is out.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>Picking of graph nodes is not working yet due to a PyOpenGL
bug.&nbsp; However, you can pick graph edges. which is equivalent to
picking the node the edge leads to.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>It busy-loops too much on Windows.&nbsp; I'll try to tame that.<br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>You connect to XMLRPC on boss.emulab.net via SSH to retrieve
experiments from the database.&nbsp; On Windows, you can use either the
<a href="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/%7Esgtatham/putty/">PuTTY</a>
"plink" command line program or the <a href="http://www.cygwin.com/">Cygwin</a>
OpenSSH "ssh" program. <br>
</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<div style="margin-left: 80px;">In either case, the proper directory
has to be on your PATH environment variable, and you have to have an
SSH key generated and loaded:</div>
<ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>For PuTTY: generate a dsa key for SSH 2 in putty-keygen; load
it into pageant; and paste the ssh-dss string into Insert Key under
Edit SSH Keys on your "My Emulab" page after logging in at <a
href="https://www.emulab.net">https://www.emulab.net</a>.&nbsp; (PuTTY
includes a good online manual.)</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Linux - Pretty much untested.</li>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>For OpenSSH: use ssh-keygen if necessary; start an ssh-agent
and load the key with:</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<pre style="margin-left: 160px;">eval `ssh-agent -s`<br>ssh-add .ssh/id_dsa<br></pre>
<div style="margin-left: 120px;">Paste the id_dsa.pub into the Emulab
page as above, and do the following once to get boss.emulab.net put
into your .ssh/known_hosts file:<br>
</div>
<pre style="margin-left: 160px;">ssh boss.emulab.net</pre>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Linux - Pretty much untested.<br>
</li>
<ul>
<li>Edit the GNUMakefile to select CPU=linux before building,</li>
<li>and also select the include of Makefile.linuxglut in
<li>and also select the include of Makefile.linuxwxpy in
hypviewer/Makefile.main .<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>Windows - Coming soon.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Please send problem reports to <a href="mailto:fish@cs.utah.edu">Russ
Fish</a>.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h4><a name="dependencies"></a>Package dependencies: </h4>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">It needs wxPython, which requires
wx_GTK2, GTK-x11, Pango, and glib, as well as glX and
OpenGL.<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">It needs wxPython, which on Unix
requires Python 2.3, wx_GTK2, GTK-x11, Pango, and glib, as well as glX
and
OpenGL.&nbsp; On Windows, Python, wxPython, and PyOpenGL are
self-contained.<br>
<br>
Plus wxGlade on top if you want to modify the GUI.<br>
</div>
<br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"></div>
<h3><a name="run"></a>Running hypview as a script<br>
</h3>
Running hypview with any dash argument such as -h produces the
following usage
summary:<br>
summary: <br>
(Use the hypview script on Unix/Linux or Cygwin/BASH;&nbsp; hypview.bat
on Windows.)<br>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>Hyperviewer usage:</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp; No args - Starts up the GUI.&nbsp; Use the File/Open menu item to read a topology.</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp; One arg - A .hyp file name.&nbsp; Read it in and start the GUI, e.g.:</big></pre>
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<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Get the topology from XMLRPC, make a .hyp file, start as above.</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ./hypview testbed BigLan</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp; Three args - Project and experiment names, plus an optional root node name.</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ./hypview testbed BigLan clan</big></pre>
<pre style="margin-left: 40px;"><big>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ./hypview testbed BigLan clan<br><br></big></pre>
<br>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<h3><a name="gui"></a>The hypview Graphical User Interface</h3>
Getting out: pick the File/Exit menu item, or type Ctrl-Q, or just
close the
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