The availability of accessible services and applications on the Inter- net has complicated the management of identities, both for users and system administrators. To go around this, the federated identity model aims to improve the access to services. However the implementation of a federation is not trivial, and, for many researchers who are developing studies on this ?eld, deploying a federation to conduct practical experiments is a long and costly task. Thispaper aims toimplement and providea virtual environmentfor researchers toconduct experiments in a framework-based Shibboleth federation.