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• Ubuntu 10.04 (Natty) or higher.  (Has been run with Ubuntu 10.04 with Ant versions 1.8.1 or lower).
• Install JDK and Ant. You can optionally choose to install eclipse but it is not required.

sudo apt-get install build-essential default-jdk ant python-dev eclipse

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Floodlight is simple to download from Github and build.

$ git clone git://github.com/floodlight/floodlight.git
$ cd floodlight
$ ant

$ sudo mkdir /var/lib/floodlight
$ sudo chmod 777 /var/lib/floodlight

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Assuming java is in your path, you can directly run the floodlight.jar file produced by ant.

$ java -jar target/floodlight.jar

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Its also possible to setup, develop and run Floodlight through Eclipse. Rather than setting up projects manually, its easily to use the Eclipse ant target.

$ ant eclipse

This creates several files: Floodlight.launch, Floodlight_junit.launch, .classpath, and .project. From these you can setup a new Eclipse project.

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• Download the Floodlight VM. It includes floodlight running by default and Mininet.
• Start it in VMware Fusion (set up new VM with provided vmdk) or VirtualBox (run floodlightcontroller.vbox.sh, click "Network tab" in VirtualBox GUI and OK before powering up - avoid running script from path with space in name, like "../VirtualBox VMs/..")
• Login (username is floodlight and no password is required)
• Its possible to run Mininet against the locally running Floodlight (just type "sudo mn") but you can also run it against a remote controller you built as well.  To do that, type:

$ sudo mn --controller=remote,ip=<controller ip>,port=6653 --switch ovsk,protocols=OpenFlow13

Optionally run wireshark over ssh. Listen on "eth0? and filter for packets with "of" names.

$ ssh -X floodlight@<vm-ip>
$ sudo wireshark

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If you are finished the getting started guide, you may want to check out Developing Floodlight where you will find a few simple coding examples.