Hi (This mail has been sent to the community mailing list already, and I was suggested to reach out to this mailing list.) I have enabled KVM after deploying openstack single node setup. Following entries has been added to /etc/nova/nova.conf and then restart libvirtd.service and openstack-nova-compute.servic. compute_driver = libvirt.LibvirtDriver [libvirt] virt_type=kvm #virt_type=qemu # lsmod | grep kvm kvm_intel 188740 0 kvm 637289 1 kvm_intel irqbypass 13503 1 kvm I have disabled qemu in nova config and restarted the entire box (including the base OS and the VM where I deployed Openstack. But still no luck. $ openstack hypervisor list +----+------------------------+-----------------+----------------+-------+ | ID | Hypervisor Hostname | Hypervisor Type | Host IP | State | +----+------------------------+-----------------+----------------+-------+ | 1 | openstack.centos.local | QEMU | 192.168.122.63 | up | +----+------------------------+-----------------+----------------+-------+ I still can see Hypervisor Type as QEMU, when I issue openstack hypervisor list command.