Jonathan - There are some nova settings (at least for KVM that you are probably thinking of, such as: cpu_mode cpu_model http://docs.openstack.org/liberty/config-reference/content/kvm.html Mike Smith Lead Cloud Systems Architect Overstock.com<http://Overstock.com> On Mar 3, 2016, at 1:52 PM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at csail.mit.edu<mailto:jon at csail.mit.edu>> wrote: I have a user who wants to specify their libvirt CPU type to restrict performance because they're modeling embeded systems. I seem to vaguely recall there is/was a way to specify this either in the instance type or maybe even in the image metadata, but I can't seem to find it. Am I delusional or blind? -Jon -- _______________________________________________ OpenStack-operators mailing list OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org<mailto:OpenStack-operators at lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20160303/c7edc5e3/attachment.html>