It is preferred if you can run the XDP-tutorial directly on your existing laptops Linux distro. This require minimum kernel version 4.19, and preferably kernel version 4.20. If these requirements are met, then you don’t need to setup/use the VM images, and you can instead follow and install the software packages described in ../setup_dependencies.org.

You only need to read further if you want/need to use the provided VM (Virtual Machine) image.

Howto use the instructor provided VM image is described in using_vm_image.org.

If you are interested in how this VM image were created (based on a Fedora29 Cloud Image) you can read create_vm_image.org. But that is not relevant for the tutorial.