[Openstack] hypervisor_type = QEMU even though KVM is installed and working

Kevin Jackson kevin at linuxservices.co.uk
Mon Aug 12 14:21:09 UTC 2013


Gents,
This isn't an indication of KVM or QEMU - see this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1195361

Verify you're running KVM by checking libvirtd logs on your compute hosts.

Regards,
Kev


On 12 August 2013 13:50, Victor Ruiz <VictorMRuizS at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have the same problem in a Ubuntu server 12.04.2 LTS.
>
> I have no idea of how to fix it.
>
>
> 2013/8/12 Daniel Ellison <daniel at syrinx.net>
>
>> On Aug 12, 2013, at 8:02 AM, Kevin Jackson <kevin at linuxservices.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Daniel,
>> > in /etc/nova do you have a nova-compute.conf with libvirt_type=qemu in
>> instead? If KVM wasn't working, it wouldn't fall back to QEMU so it must be
>> mentioned somewhere.
>>
>> Good thought! Unfortunately /etc/nova/nova-compute.conf contains:
>>
>>     [DEFAULT]
>>     libvirt_type=kvm
>>     compute_driver=libvirt.LibvirtDriver
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestion, though. It would have been a nice, neat
>> answer. In fact, the only mention of QEMU anywhere in the /etc/nova
>> directory is in rootwrap.d/compute-filters:
>>
>>     qemu-nbd: CommandFilter, /usr/bin/qemu-nbd, root
>>     qemu-img: CommandFilter, /usr/bin/qemu-img, root
>>
>> That's it. For completeness I'm running Grizzly on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
>> (Precise Pangolin).
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