About This Document

Overview

This document describes the ExaGear's working principles, technical constraints, installation, upgrade, configuration, and security hardening in server scenarios.

Key Terms

To unify understanding, the meanings of common system terms in this document are as follows:

Host system: Arm 64-bit GNU/Linux.
Guest system: x86 GNU/Linux running on the host system.

Note that the following definitions are used in examples in this document to indicate the OS version and ExaGear installation package version:

<os_version>: the version of the supported OS.
<package_version>: the version of the ExaGear installation package (usually contained in the installation package name).
<release_version>: the version of the official ExaGear release.

Symbol Conventions

The symbols that may be found in this document are defined as follows.

Symbol	Description
	Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in equipment damage, data loss, performance deterioration, or unanticipated results. NOTICE is used to address practices not related to personal injury.
	Supplements the important information in the main text. NOTE is used to address information not related to personal injury, equipment damage, and environment deterioration.

Symbol

Description

Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided, could result in equipment damage, data loss, performance deterioration, or unanticipated results.

NOTICE is used to address practices not related to personal injury.

Supplements the important information in the main text.

NOTE is used to address information not related to personal injury, equipment damage, and environment deterioration.

Parent topic: Introduction