Mininet can leverage the applications installed in the server to attach them as processes to the hosts that it emulates. For example, see the following, a vim started from a host in Mininet:
$ sudo mn *** Creating network *** Adding controller *** Adding hosts and stations: h1 h2 *** Adding switches and access point(s): s1 *** Adding link(s): (h1, s1) (h2, s1) *** Configuring hosts *** Starting controller(s) c0 *** Starting switches and/or access points s1 ... *** Starting CLI: mininet-wifi> h1 vim
The preceding command will open a vim instance in the Terminal! You may even try other applications such as gedit, or even mininet itself, to run as a process attached to the emulated host. However, note that these are real processes from the applications that are installed on the server. Not an emulation.
Containernet extends Mininet...
