how to open xterm in mininet after you execute a python script as root user?

Question

I am running a python script and when I execute it as normal user mininet says

must run as root

and when I execute it as root user it works fine but after the script I have to open xterm h1 and it doesn't allow if you are a root user.

How to open xterm as a root user?

Answer 1

Try this:

sudo -E python <name of the custom topo file>

This would let you to run the custom topo script as a script. Then you should be able to use xtrem.

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