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Charon-SSP for Linux - Supported Linux Versions

Please note:

• The versions listed here are the ones for which Older versions of  Charon-SSP provides all the kernel modules necessary for special features, such as provided support for SSP+ and PCI pass-through , only in the Charon-SSP +, and  MMU pass-through (Charon-SSP version 6). The Baremetal distribution. Later versions of Charon-SSP also provide this support for specific kernel versions of the supported Linux distributions. The required kernel module support depends on the unchanged kernel versions associated with the Linux version listed. In older versions of Charon-SSP, the SSP+ support was limited to the Baremetal distribution and the cloud marketplace distributions.If the features provided Unless mentioned otherwise in the table below, all listed Linux versions are supported by the kernel modules are not needed, provided by Charon-SSP may work with additional Linux versions and kernels. Tests are requiredas long as the original kernel version is not changed. For Oracle Linux, the RHEL compatible kernel must be used.
• Development versions are not listed. For example: RHEL 9.1 was initially supported in the development/pre-release Charon-SSP version 5.7.3. In the table below, Linx version 9.1 is listed for Charon-SSP 6.0.1, the first official version supporting it. A more More detailed information about intermediate versions can be found in the Release notes.
• Only 64-bit versions of Linux are supported.
• Please always refer to the Release Notes and the User's Guide of your version for more details (CHARON-SSP for Linux).
• CentOS 7.x and 8.x are EOL and not recommended for Charon-SSP.

Amazon Linux:

• Limited support for Amazon Linux 2023 (is provided starting with Charon-SSP version 5.6.7). Only : only the non-plus versions of Charon-SSP are supported and a supported Charon-SSP AWS marketplace image must be used to launch the instance. MMU pass-through (available starting with Charon-SSP version 6) requires kernel version 6.1.61-85.

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Additional Information

The following commands can help to identify you the versions of your Linux distribution, your kernel, and the kernel modules provided by Charon-SSP:

1. Version of your Linux distribution:
   
   $ cat /etc/<distribution>-release
   for example:
   $ cat /etc/rocky-release


2. Version of the running kernel:
   
   $ uname -r


3. Version of a specific kernel module:
   
   $ modinfo <kernel-module-name> | grep version
   for example:
   $ modinfo /opt/charon-ssp/ssp-4u/mmu/mmu_kapi-9.4.ko |grep version

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