System Requirement

EVE-NG System Requirements
EVE-NG is currently released as an OVA file and ISO. An OVA is a Open Virtual Appliance format. It’s an archive (TAR) which holds disks and configuration file (OVF or Open Virtualization File) for the virtual machine. EVE-NG can be also directly installed on the physical hardware, without any virtualization by use of ISO image. Because EVE-NG runs many hypervisor, it’s strongly recommended a physical server dedicated for it, without any virtualization software. Mind that nested virtualization is not a good thing and can lead to poor performance.

EVE-NG requires:

  • Intel CPU VT-x/EPT
  • One of the following:
    • Ubuntu Xenial Xerus 16.04.X LTS 64bit (suggested with any processors). (Ubuntu 18 and 19 are not supported due it still not have all necessary libs for EVE)
    • VMware ESXi 6.0 or later
    • VMware Workstation 12.5 or later
    • VMware Fusion 8 or later
    • VMware Player 12.5 or later
    • Google Cloud platform VM

NOT Officially supported or have issues:

  • VIRTUAL BOX DOESN’T SUPPORT HW ACCELERATION !!! AVOID USING IT !!!!
  • AMD-V/RVI is capable processor but not officially supported. AMD CPU newest versions are supported but as Bare EVE install only. Not for ESXi or VM Ware workstation.
  • Hyper-V, Promox and XEN Citrix are not officially supported.
  • Azure cloud is not officially supported, because Azure overwrite kernel for EVE VM, and do not accept custom Kernels for VM Machines.
  • AWS cloud is not officially supported due issues with sub-virtualization. It has issues to run Qemu nodes.

Required CPU and RAM depend on how many nodes are needed to run. 4 vCPU and 6GB of RAM can be enough for IOU/IOL and Dynamips only, but will be insufficient for topology with CSR1000V routers.

In other words the EVE-NG requirements are the same for nested ESXi virtualization or Cisco VIRL/CML. EVE-NG can still work without Intel VT processors and can run installed within other hypervisors also But:

  • 64 bits (x86_64) appliances won’t work.
  • Poor performances should be expected with 32 bits (i386) appliances.

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