System requirementsΒΆ

IncusOS is designed to provide an extremely secure environment in which to run Incus. It requires a lot of modern system features and will not function properly on older unsupported systems.

Minimum system requirements:

  • Modern Intel/AMD (x86_64) or ARM (aarch64) system

    • For x86_64, the CPU must support x86_64_v3

  • Support for UEFI with Secure Boot

  • TPM 2.0 security module

  • At least 4GiB of RAM (for system use only)

  • At least 50GiB of storage

  • At least one wired network port

Note

For homelab and evaluation use, it is possible for IncusOS to rely on a software-backed TPM implementation. This is useful in scenarios such as running IncusOS on most consumer-grade ARM systems that may lack physical TPM chips.

Be aware that this will weaken the overall security of the IncusOS server, and is not supported in enterprise deployments. For further details, see Installing without a TPM.