OpenvSwitch SDN simulator with mininet

Mininet is a network simulator for openvswitch and openflow. It allows you to build network typologies that emulate hosts, switches and routers. It is very easy to set up by following the instalation guide. All what you have to do is to download the VM file, import the downloaded image and create your minint VM. After that you can follow this other guide and start playing with it.

And if you are interested more how it is built you can take a look here:

https://github.com/mininet/mininet/wiki/Introduction-to-Mininet
http://mininet.org/overview/