Hi Stephen, When you get to the configuration of Nova (Compute) there is an option to specify the hypervisor. Running OpenStack under VirtualBox is not a problem. You just end up with using software emulated virtualization using qemu. Shameless plug but see http://uksysadmin.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/screencast-video-of-an-install-of-openstack-essex-on-ubuntu-12-04-under-virtualbox/for what sounds like what you want to achieve. Cheers, Kev On 23 May 2012 13:04, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi Frederik, > > Thanks for your advice. > > Then OpenStack doesn't need LXC to run ? For KVM, the hypervisor is build > into the Linux kernel. But VirtualBox is NOT. > > B.R. > Stephen L > > ------------------------------ > > -- Kevin Jackson @itarchitectkev -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/attachments/20120523/3baa1090/attachment-0002.html>