Architectures

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.

Supported Operating Systems

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:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 4 and 5(and thus the rebuilds like Centos)
• Caos Linux versions 2 and 3beta

Other distributions that should work but are not typically verified are:

• SuSE Linux
• Debian Linux
• Ubuntu
• Slackware
• Mandriva
• Gentoo Linux

Your mileage may vary for each of these.

Node requirements

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.