I'd like to use kata to test applications on different kernels,

ideally I'd like to be able to import kernels from most modern

distributions and test on those kernels without any changes.

So far I've not been able to boot kata VMs successfully with

Ubuntu 18,04 and CentOS 8 kernels.

I have built a custom image and been able to boot that with

the original kata kernel from 1.11.0-alpha1.

My question is - should it be fundamentally possible to make

kata work with any kernel, or all of its functionality as a k8s

runtime is highly dependent on kernel it uses?

When I look at qemu flags, I see a lot of things going on,

that make me think there is a set of very specific features

that kata depends on, is that correct? Or can one reduce

this set of features to something more basic?

Also, if I am to use firecracker, would my options be any

different or worse actually?

Ilya