From 62681a776ef0b2ab3062cf137e14553c41987437 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Bradford Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 11:00:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] README: Add host kernel version details Signed-off-by: Rob Bradford --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a56bfdd7a..31fdc5cb6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ - [Architectures](#architectures) - [Guest OS](#guest-os) - [2. Getting Started](#2-getting-started) + - [Host OS](#host-os) - [Preparation](#preparation) - [Install prerequisites](#install-prerequisites) - [Clone and build](#clone-and-build) @@ -72,6 +73,12 @@ Below sections describe how to build and run Cloud Hypervisor on the `x86_64` platform. For getting started on the `AArch64` platform, please refer to the [Arm64 documentation](docs/arm64.md). +## Host OS + +Based on required KVM functionality the minimum host kernel version is 4.11. +For adequate peformance the minimum recommended host kernel vesion is 5.6. The +majority of the CI currently tests with kernel version 5.15. + ## Preparation We create a folder to build and run `cloud-hypervisor` at `$HOME/cloud-hypervisor`