[Openstack] hypervisor selection

wu jiang wingwj at gmail.com
Mon Dec 2 01:27:58 UTC 2013


Hi John,

This website lists the difference of function support between all
hypervisors. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix
Hope it's useful for you. :)

wingwj


On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Gary Kotton <gkotton at vmware.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> By default devstack uses the libvirt driver. This can be qemu or kvm
> depending on whether or not you are running on hardware or a virtual
> machine. You are able to run different drivers with different compute
> nodes - for example you can run a xen, hyperv or vmware driver
> (
> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide#vSphere_Environm
> ent_and_Inventory). You you want to run multiple compute nodes with
> different hypervisors you can make use of image meta data that will
> indicate to the scheduler which hypervisor it can choose.
> Thanks
> Gary
>
> On 11/30/13 5:21 PM, "John Smith" <lbalbalba at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >Im trying out devstack, and have a question about the hypervisor(s)
> >used. I believe devstack uses qemu. But how do you tell openstack what
> >hypervisor to use ? For example, if I wanted to use kvm or xen how do
> >I do that ? Is there an option to the 'nova boot' command that lets
> >you do that ?
> >
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >
> >John Smith
> >
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