Requirements¶
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 5.15.
Incus requires a kernel with support for:
Namespaces (
pid,net,uts,ipcandmount)Seccomp
Native Linux AIO (
io_setup(2), etc.)
The following optional features also require extra kernel options:
Namespaces (
userandcgroup)AppArmor
Control Groups (
blkio,cpuset,devices,memoryandpids)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.
OCI¶
To run OCI containers, Incus currently rely on skopeo.
skopeo should be available in the user’s PATH.
QEMU¶
For virtual machines, QEMU 6.0 or higher is required.
When using virtiofsd, only the Rust rewrite 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:
libacl1libcap2libuv1(forcowsql)libsqlite3>= 3.25.0 (forcowsql)
Make sure you have all these libraries themselves and their development
headers (-dev packages) installed.