a10gx board installation on Linux system - errors

Minimal CentOS should work, but you obviously need basic packages that are needed for compilation (make, gcc, etc.)

Virtual Machine will certainly not work since you won't have access to the PCI-E ports from the VM.

Note that you don't have to install CentOS on your development machine; you can just put the board on a CentOS machine but design, test and compile the kernels on your development machine and then transfer the aocx binary and the host code to the CentOS machine and compile the host code and run the kernel on the FPGA.

P.S. Since v17.0 is supposed to officially support Ubuntu, you can always open a support ticket with Altera and complain as to why the PCI-E driver does not compile on a supported OS.