<div dir="ltr">Sean:<div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Could you say a little more about why it is that running nova-compute inside of a VM makes it easier to integrate with nova-network or quantum (ova)? </div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The OpenStack docs on VMWare <<a href="http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html">http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/vmware.html</a>> unfortunately don't have any detail about this.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also, is the VM that runs nova-compute supposed to be managed by OpenStack, or is it supposed to be set up manually?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>
Take care,</div><div class="gmail_extra" style><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" style>Lorin</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:38 AM, Sean Chen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xuchenx@gmail.com" target="_blank">xuchenx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<br><div>Sean</div></font></span></div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On Jan 5, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Lorin Hochstein <<a href="mailto:lorin@nimbisservices.com" target="_blank">lorin@nimbisservices.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Sean:<div><br></div><div>I'd like to add this to the documentation on that page. Can you describe in more detail why you recommend installing nova-compute on a VM <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">hosted on the ESXi that nova compute manages?</span></div>


<div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Lorin</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">


On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Sean Chen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xuchenx@gmail.com" target="_blank">xuchenx@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">


<div dir="ltr">Both physical machine and VM work. It's preferred to install nova compute on a VM hosted on the ESXi that nova compute manages.<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>
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Sean
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