Before installing, please verify that you have the following programs:
-- `Xen Hypervisor <http://www.xen.org/>`_, version 3.0.x or 3.1
+- `Xen Hypervisor <http://www.xen.org/>`_, version 3.0 or above, if
+ running on Xen
+- `KVM Hypervisor <http://www.linux-kvm.org>`_, version 72 or above, if
+ running on KVM. In order to use advanced features, such as live
+ migration, virtio, etc, an even newer version is recommended (qemu-kvm
+ versions 0.11.X or above have shown good behavior).
- `DRBD <http://www.drbd.org/>`_, kernel module and userspace utils,
version 8.0.7 or above
- `LVM2 <http://sourceware.org/lvm2/>`_
-- `OpenSSL <http://www.openssl.org/>`_
- `OpenSSH <http://www.openssh.com/portable.html>`_
- `bridge utilities <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Bridge>`_
- `iproute2 <http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Iproute2>`_
- `simplejson Python module <http://code.google.com/p/simplejson/>`_
- `pyparsing Python module <http://pyparsing.wikispaces.com/>`_
- `pyinotify Python module <http://trac.dbzteam.org/pyinotify/>`_
+- `PycURL Python module <http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/>`_
+- `ctypes Python module
+ <http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/>`_, if running on
+ python 2.4 (optional, used for node daemon memory locking)
- `socat <http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/>`_
+- `Paramiko <http://www.lag.net/paramiko/>`_, if you want automated SSH
+ setup; optional otherwise but manual setup of the nodes required
These programs are supplied as part of most Linux distributions, so
usually they can be installed via the standard package manager. Also
$ apt-get install lvm2 ssh bridge-utils iproute iputils-arping \
python python-pyopenssl openssl python-pyparsing \
- python-simplejson python-pyinotify socat
+ python-simplejson python-pyinotify python-pycurl \
+ socat
If you want to build from source, please see doc/devnotes.rst for more
dependencies.