Prerequisistes

This page gives information about the techical prerequisites for a system based on Safecor.

Safecor is a security oriented foundation. It has been designed to provide the best security level to products made with it. To do so, it must rely on hardware technical enablers provided by the machine it operates on.

Component	Description	Mandatory
Processor	Virtualisation extensions - Provided through VT-x on Intel processors, these extensions offer a virtualized context to virtual machines operated by an hypervisor.	Yes
	Peripheral virtualization - Provided through VT-d on Intel processors, these extensions offer an isolation of the machine's peripherals to the virtual machines.	Yes
Memory	A system can be ran on a machine with at least 128 MB or RAM. If a graphical interface and USB devices should be used, the minimum of memory needed is 512 MB.
Disk	A disk is not mandatory. The system can be started from the network (PXE), a DVD-ROM or an external storage like a USB key.	No