The current DART implemenation targets Emulab. Thus, order to use DART, you will first need to obtain an account on Emulab. In the rest of this document, we assume that your Emulab username is the same as the username on the machine where you are running DART from.
DART is also currently implemented in Python and has been tested primarly on Redhat 7.3 using Python 2.2. If your platform differs from this, you may experience some Python versioning issues, although, should they occur, they are likely to require minor fixes.