Note: Attempting to run the CSR100V with less than 2.5GB of RAM will often result in a boot loop or kernel panic during initialization.

| Hypervisor | File Name Contains | Extension/Type | | :--- | :--- | :--- | | VMware ESXi | csr1000v-universalk9.ova | OVA (Open Virtual Appliance) | | KVM (Linux) | csr1000v-universalk9.qcow2 | QEMU copy-on-write | | Microsoft Hyper-V | csr1000v-universalk9.vhd.zip | VHD (compressed) | | AWS/Azure Cloud | csr1000v-universalk9.ami / .vhd | Cloud-specific images |