vEOS Overview

References:
https://www.arista.com/en/cg-veos-router/veos-router-using-the-veos-router-on-kvm-and-esxi

KVM Requirements

vEOS is must be deployed on an x86-64 architecture server running KVM hypervisor.

KVM Minimum Server Requirements:
8 GB free disk space
16 GB RAM
x86-64 Server class CPU (32-bit CPUs are not supported) with
Intel VT-x or AMD-V support for CPU Virtualization
Intel VT-d or AMD-IOMMU support for PCIe passthrough
Intel AES-NI support
4 CPU cores running at 2.4GHz.

2021-03: vEOS 4.25.2F is running in EVE-NG with 1vCPUs, 2GBs of RAM and 6 Ethernet interfaces, just fine.

 

For some features (e.g. RSVP) to work, vEOS needs the following config: platform tfa personality arfa

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