Nephio demo on Windows

Step by step guide to run Nephio on Windows

This page is draft and the separation of the content to different categories is not done.

Steps

Install git
Install VirtualBox
Install vagrant
open git bash
git clone https://github.com/nephio-project/test-infra.git && cd test-infra/e2e/provision
vagrant up
vagrant ssh -- -L 7007:localhost:7007 -L 3000:172.18.0.200:3000

Networking

The Vagrant networking will not work on Windows to allow access to the Nephio Web UI and Gitea Web UI due the Hyper-V limitation. Meanwhile, for VirtualBox (used here), we can create an internal network by adding the following line to the Vagrant.configure:

config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.50.4", virtualbox__intnet: true

The easiest way is to force the port-forwarding as shown before:

vagrant ssh -- -L 7007:localhost:7007 -L 3000:172.18.0.200:3000

Tests were done on

Laptop: Windows 11 i7-10750H (16 T) 32GB ram (8VCPU 32GB)
Laptop: Windows 10 i5-7200U (4T) 24GB ram (4VCPU 16RAM)

Notes

Warning

For low-end machines (less then 8T32GB), you will need to modify the Vagrant file. This is not recommended!

In the Vagrant file ./Vagrantfile, there are CPUS & RAM parameters in the config.vm.provider, it’s possible to override them at runtime:
- On Linux, or the Git Bash on Windows we can use a one-liner command CPUS=16 MEMORY=32768 vagrant up
In the Ansible ./playbooks/roles/bootstrap/tasks/prechecks.yml file, there are the checks for CPUS & RAM