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Add runtime requirements section to README
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@ -15,6 +15,28 @@ containerd is designed to be embedded into a larger system, rather than being us
If you are interested in trying out containerd please see our [Getting Started Guide](docs/getting-started.md).
## Runtime Requirements
Runtime requirements for containerd are very minimal. Most interactions with
the Linux and Windows container feature sets are handled via [runc](https://github.com/opencontainers/runc) and/or
OS-specific libraries (e.g. [hcsshim](https://github.com/Microsoft/hcsshim) for Microsoft). There are specific features
used by containerd core code and snapshotters that will require a minimum kernel
version on Linux. With the understood caveat of distro kernel versioning, a
reasonable starting point for Linux is a minimum 4.x kernel version.
The overlay filesystem snapshotter, used by default, uses features that were
finalized in the 4.x kernel series. If you choose to use btrfs, there may
be more flexibility in kernel version (minimum recommended is 3.13), but will
require the btrfs kernel module and btrfs tools to be installed on your Linux
distribution.
To use Linux checkpoint and restore features, you will need `criu` installed on
your system. See more details in [Checkpoint and Restore](#checkpoint-and-restore).
The current required version of runc is always listed in [RUNC.md](/RUNC.md).
Build requirements for developers are listed in the [Developer Quick-Start](#developer-quick-start) section.
## Features
### Client
@ -93,7 +115,6 @@ image, err := client.Pull(context, "docker.io/library/redis:latest", containerd.
redis, err := client.NewContainer(context, "redis-master",
containerd.WithNewSnapshot("redis-rootfs", image),
containerd.WithNewSpec(oci.WithImageConfig(image)),
)
// use a readonly filesystem with multiple containers
@ -150,7 +171,7 @@ defer task.Delete(context)
err := task.Start(context)
```
## Developer Quick-Start
## Developer Quick Start
To build the daemon and `ctr` simple test client, the following build system dependencies are required: