Chapter 4. Installation Prerequisites
Make sure that your computer is ready for installing Container Development Kit.
4.1. Hardware Requirements
Check that the following requirements are met:
- BIOS support. The host computer system must have hardware virtualization enabled in the BIOS.
- A Red Hat Developer account.
4.2. Hypervisor Requirements
Container Development Kit requires a hypervisor to start the virtual machine on which the OpenShift cluster is provisioned. Make sure that the hypervisor of your choice is installed and enabled on your system before you start Container Development Kit.
Depending on your host OS, you have the choice of the following hypervisors:
- macOS
- xhyve (default)
- VirtualBox
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- KVM (default)
- VirtualBox
- Microsoft Windows
Hyper-V (default)
NoteTo be able to use Hyper-V, ensure that, after you enable Hyper-V, you also add a Virtual Switch using the Hyper-V Manager. Make sure that you pair the virtual switch with a network card (wired or wireless) that is connected to the network.
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VirtualBox. Use
VirtualBox 5.1.2or later.
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