adding fast lane set of instructions
## Prerequisites
+If you need an opinionated way of running Firecracker, create an `i3.metal`
+instance using Ubuntu 18.04 on EC2. Firecracker uses
+[KVM](https://www.linux-kvm.org) and needs read/write access that can be
+granted as shown below:
+
+```
+sudo setfacl -m u:${USER}:rw /dev/kvm
+```
+
+The generic requirements are explained below:
+
- **Linux 4.14+**
Firecracker currently supports physical Linux x86_64 hosts, with kernel
- **KVM**
- Firecracker uses [KVM](https://www.linux-kvm.org). Please make sure that:
+ Please make sure that:
1. you have KVM enabled in your Linux kernel, and
2. you have read/write access to `/dev/kvm`.
If you need help setting up access to `/dev/kvm`, you should check out
@@ -52,6 +63,12 @@ just download the latest binary from our
[release page](https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/releases),
and run it on your x86_64 Linux machine.
+On the EC2 instance, this binary can be downloaded as:
+
+```
+curl -LOJ https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker/releases/download/v0.11.0/firecracker-v0.11.0
+```
+
If, instead, you'd like to build Firecracker yourself, you should check out
the [Building From Source section](#building-from-source) in this doc.
