Supported architectures are x86 (ia32) and x86_64. There have been people that have ported Perceus to other platforms, but do this at your own risk. If you do however successfully do this, please share your notes with us upstream. ;)
We have had requests to support ia64, and PPC64 as well and we will do so when hardware and development resources become available.
While there are plans on supporting other Operating Systems, presently Perceus is a Linux solution. Even more specifically, Perceus is developed and primarily tested on the following operating systems:
Other distributions that should work but are not typically verified are:
Your mileage may vary for each of these.
There are several layers of hardware support that is needed for Perceus to function correctly. First the system must support PXE (network boot subsystem). Then the Perceus initial ram file system (initramfs) itself must support the hardware. Lastly, the provisioned VNFS must also support the hardware.
Perceus usually works with most hardware configurations but if you have a problem, send a detailed email to the maintainers at the Contact Us form.