Requirements

Go

LXD requires Go 1.9 or higher and is only tested with the golang compiler.

Kernel requirements

The minimum supported kernel version is 3.13.

LXD requires a kernel with support for:

  • Namespaces (pid, net, uts, ipc and mount)
  • Seccomp

The following optional features also require extra kernel options:

  • Namespaces (user and cgroup)
  • AppArmor (including Ubuntu patch for mount mediation)
  • Control Groups (blkio, cpuset, devices, memory, pids and net_prio)
  • CRIU (exact details to be found with CRIU upstream)

As well as any other kernel feature required by the LXC version in use.

LXC

LXD requires LXC 2.0.0 or higher with the following build options:

  • apparmor (if using LXD's apparmor support)
  • seccomp

To run recent version of various distributions, including Ubuntu, LXCFS should also be installed.

Additional libraries (and development headers)

LXD uses dqlite for its database, to build and setup the custom sqlite3 and dqlite needed for it, you can run make deps.

LXD itself also uses a number of (usually packaged) C libraries: - libacl1 - libcap2 - libuv1 (for dqlite)

Make sure you have both the libraries themselves and their development headers (-dev packages) installed.