Cumulus VX

Welcome to NVIDIA® Cumulus VX.

What Is Cumulus VX?

Cumulus VX is a free virtual machine (VM) that provides all the features of Cumulus Linux. Use Cumulus VX to learn and test Cumulus Linux in your own environment, at your own pace, without organizational and economic barriers. You can also produce sandbox environments for prototype assessment, pre-production rollouts, and script development. Read the Cumulus VX overview for additional information about Cumulus VX and to understand the support policy.

NVIDIA also offers NVIDIA Air, which is a free, personal, virtual data center network that provides a low-effort way to see NVIDIA Networking technology in action. This is a good way to try out Cumulus Linux if you have platform or disk limitations.

How do I use Cumulus VX?

This document describes how to install Cumulus VX on the KVM-QEMU hypervisor. After you install Cumulus VX successfully, you can run basic commands to get up and running and explore using the Cumulus Linux documentation as a resource.