[Openstack] hypervisor selection

Gary Kotton gkotton at vmware.com
Sat Nov 30 17:04:29 UTC 2013


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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