+- recent QEMU >= 0.13 with virtio-serial support
+
+- kernel >= 2.6.34 with virtio-serial support enabled. virtio-block
+ and virtio-serial support are not required but highly recommended.
+
+- febootstrap >= 3.0 (recommended >= 3.3)
+ *NB*: febootstrap 2.x WILL NOT WORK
+ febootstrap 3.x is distro-independent, and is required on
+ Debian and other distros too
+
+- XDR, rpcgen (on Linux these are provided by glibc)
+
+- pcre (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions C library) (optional)
+
+- libmagic (the library that corresponds to the 'file' command) (optional)
+
+- libvirt (optional)
+
+- libxml2 (optional)
+
+- Augeas (http://augeas.net/) (optional)
+
+- gperf