1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
|
# Requirements
(requirements-go)=
## Go
Incus requires Go 1.23 or higher and is only tested with the Golang compiler.
We recommend having at least 2GiB of RAM to allow the build to complete.
## Kernel requirements
The minimum supported kernel version is 5.4.
Incus requires a kernel with support for:
* Namespaces (`pid`, `net`, `uts`, `ipc` and `mount`)
* Seccomp
* Native Linux AIO
([`io_setup(2)`](https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/io_setup.2.html), etc.)
The following optional features also require extra kernel options:
* Namespaces (`user` and `cgroup`)
* AppArmor
* Control Groups (`blkio`, `cpuset`, `devices`, `memory` and `pids`)
* CRIU (exact details to be found with CRIU upstream)
As well as any other kernel feature required by the LXC version in use.
## LXC
Incus requires LXC 5.0.0 or higher with the following build options:
* `apparmor` (if using Incus' AppArmor support)
* `seccomp`
LXCFS is strongly recommended to properly report resource consumption inside the container.
## QEMU
For virtual machines, QEMU 6.0 or higher is required.
When using `virtiofsd`, only the [Rust rewrite](https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd) of `virtiofsd` is supported.
## Additional libraries (and development headers)
Incus uses `cowsql` for its database, to build and set it up, you can
run `make deps`.
Incus itself also uses a number of (usually packaged) C libraries:
* `libacl1`
* `libcap2`
* `libuv1` (for `cowsql`)
* `libsqlite3` >= 3.25.0 (for `cowsql`)
Make sure you have all these libraries themselves and their development
headers (`-dev` packages) installed.
|
