Prerequisites and assumptions
Your IBM Z® hardware and KVM host must support AP queues for KVM guests.
Hardware requirements
- IBM Z hardware with one or more cryptographic adapters.
KVM host requirements
- The KVM host must be a Linux instance in LPAR mode, in an LPAR that has access to one or more AP queues.
- The Linux instance must support the vfio-ap device driver. This device driver was integrated into the upstream kernel with Linux 4.20.
- s390-tools upstream version 2.7 or later.
- QEMU upstream version 3.1 or later.
- libvirt upstream version 4.9 or later.
Distributions include the required modules and packages as of the following versions:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
- Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS
KVM guest requirements
The KVM guest can be any distribution that is supported on IBM Z hardware.