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# Runtime Configuration
The containerd shims (both the Rust and Go implementations) take configuration files to control their behavior. These files are in `/opt/kata/share/defaults/kata-containers/`. An example excerpt:
```toml title="/opt/kata/share/defaults/kata-containers/configuration.toml"
[hypervisor.qemu]
path = "/opt/kata/bin/qemu-system-x86_64"
kernel = "/opt/kata/share/kata-containers/vmlinux.container"
image = "/opt/kata/share/kata-containers/kata-containers.img"
machine_type = "q35"
# rootfs filesystem type:
# - ext4 (default)
# - xfs
# - erofs
rootfs_type = "ext4"
# Enable running QEMU VMM as a non-root user.
# By default QEMU VMM run as root. When this is set to true, QEMU VMM process runs as
# a non-root random user. See documentation for the limitations of this mode.
rootless = false
# List of valid annotation names for the hypervisor
# Each member of the list is a regular expression, which is the base name
# of the annotation, e.g. "path" for io.katacontainers.config.hypervisor.path"
enable_annotations = ["enable_iommu", "virtio_fs_extra_args", "kernel_params"]
```
These files should never be modified directly. If you wish to create a modified version of these files, you may create your own [custom runtime](helm-configuration.md#custom-runtimes). For example, to modify the image path, we provide these values to helm:
```yaml title="values.yaml"
customRuntimes:
enabled: true
runtimes:
my-gpu-runtime:
baseConfig: "qemu-nvidia-gpu"
dropIn: |
[hypervisor.qemu]
image = "/path/to/custom-image.img"
runtimeClass: |
kind: RuntimeClass
apiVersion: node.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
name: kata-my-gpu-runtime
labels:
app.kubernetes.io/managed-by: kata-deploy
handler: kata-my-gpu-runtime
overhead:
podFixed:
memory: "640Mi"
cpu: "500m"
scheduling:
nodeSelector:
katacontainers.io/kata-runtime: "true"
```