Prerequisites

The host system must meet the following requirements:

• CPU: Armv8 architecture
• RAM: 512 MB or above
• Drive space:
  • 600 MB space, including the x86 system library and basic file system, is provided in the ExaGear installation package.
  • Extra space is need for x86 64-bit container images. The space size varies according to the size of the images.
• OS: 64-bit Linux OS (CentOS 7, Ubuntu 18, or Ubuntu 20)
• The binfmt_misc kernel module has been preinstalled and enabled by default.

ExaGear for Docker supports only x86 Linux containers and x86 applications.

Creating a System User

When the ExaGear release package is installed, the system user exagearopt whose UID is less than 1000 and the system user group exagearopt whose GID is less than 1000 are created, and the login shell is /sbin/nologin. The system user is not allowed to log in to the system.