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Hi John,

you can choose your hypervisor driver by changing nova.conf.

in nova.conf - change compute_driver = nova.virt.<hypervisor
package>.<driver-class>

Restart nova-compute service. Logs will show particular driver loading.

Regards,
Yatin


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:57 AM, wu jiang <wingwj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> This website lists the difference of function support between all
> hypervisors. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HypervisorSupportMatrix
> Hope it's useful for you. :)
>
> wingwj
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 1:04 AM, Gary Kotton <gkotton at vmware.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> By default devstack uses the libvirt driver. This can be qemu or kvm
>> depending on whether or not you are running on hardware or a virtual
>> machine. You are able to run different drivers with different compute
>> nodes - for example you can run a xen, hyperv or vmware driver
>> (
>> https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/NovaVMware/DeveloperGuide#vSphere_Environm
>> ent_and_Inventory). You you want to run multiple compute nodes with
>> different hypervisors you can make use of image meta data that will
>> indicate to the scheduler which hypervisor it can choose.
>> Thanks
>> Gary
>>
>> On 11/30/13 5:21 PM, "John Smith" <lbalbalba at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >
>> >Im trying out devstack, and have a question about the hypervisor(s)
>> >used. I believe devstack uses qemu. But how do you tell openstack what
>> >hypervisor to use ? For example, if I wanted to use kvm or xen how do
>> >I do that ? Is there an option to the 'nova boot' command that lets
>> >you do that ?
>> >
>> >
>> >Regards,
>> >
>> >
>> >John Smith
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