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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 2, 2019 9:37 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Gary Kotton; openstack@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: qemu emulation or virtualiztion, which one is it using?</font>
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<a name="x__MailEndCompose"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Ok,</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Thank you for your prompt response. I can see this in the nova.conf file:</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">[libvirt]</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">virt_type = kvm</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Can I assume qemu is using virtualization through kvm?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Thank you</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">Manuel</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Gary Kotton [mailto:gkotton@vmware.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 2, 2019 5:22 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Manuel Sopena Ballesteros; openstack@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: qemu emulation or virtualiztion, which one is it using?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Hi,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">This depends on the virtualization driver configured on your hypervisors. This can be one of many. For example, KVM, VMware VC, Hyper-V...</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">Thanks</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black"> Manuel Sopena Ballesteros <manuel.sb@garvan.org.au><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 2, 2019 9:15 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> openstack@lists.openstack.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> qemu emulation or virtualiztion, which one is it using?</span> </p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">“openstack hypervisor list” command shows qemu as type of hypervisor.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">How do I know it is using virtualization and not qemu emulation?</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thank you</span></p>
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