Yes, you can. The only thing that you have to do is modify the /etc/nova/nova.conf file [libvirt] ... virt_type = kvm Enable the kvm_intel kernel module and restart the service of nova compute Regards, Victor Morales From: shine nelson <radioactive.life at gmail.com<mailto:radioactive.life at gmail.com>> Date: Friday, July 3, 2015 at 10:21 PM To: "openstack at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack at lists.openstack.org>" <openstack at lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack at lists.openstack.org>> Subject: [Openstack] Switching to KVM from QEMU Hello, I just recently installed DevStack on my Dedicated Server running Debian 8 (Jessie). After install, I read that KVM would run better (and faster) on server infrastructure than QEMU. But I think I was too late to realize it. I had already initiated stack.sh. My question is : Can I switch to KVM without having to re-install DevStack? If yes, can somebody help me out by pointing to the right docs / procedure to achieve this? Thanks in advance, ~ shine