[Openstack-operators] [vmware][nova] "could not find capabilities for domaintype=kvm"

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Mon Mar 7 10:22:16 UTC 2016


On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 11:15:23AM -0800, Adam Lawson wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> We're testing OpenStack Liberty on an ESX host and it installs fine. When
> attempting to create a VM, receiving an error:
> 
> *libvirtError: invalid argument : could not find capabilities for
> domaintype=kvm*
> 
> VMware environment is ESX 5.5:
> *Capabilities*
> 
> nestedHVSupported = true
> 
> Intel VT-X = Supported
> 
> 
> Is there any obvious ways to solve this or clarify whether this is a
> physical or ESX configuration issue?

Try running 'virt-host-validate' as root in the guest, and it should tell
you whether the guest running the kvm compute node is configured suitably
for runing KVM and point out any obvious problem it finds.

Regards,
Daniel
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