[Openstack] Change KVM parameters for specific instance

Steve Gordon sgordon at redhat.com
Tue Jul 8 06:17:31 UTC 2014


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Loza" <mloza at morphlabs.com>
> To: openstack at lists.openstack.org
> 
> Hello,
> 
>      I have a Microsoft Windows 2000 Server instance which doesn't have
> support for VirtIO drivers. I was wondering on how to modify the KVM
> parameters to use ide instead of virtio. I manually change the
> parameters to use ide in the /var/lib/nova/$UUID/libvirt.xml but it
> reverts back to virtio. I'm using this guide as my reference
> http://dachary.org/?p=1348

Set the hw_disk_bus image property on the disk image in Glance to ide:

    http://docs.openstack.org/cli-reference/content/chapter_cli-glance-property.html

-- 
Steve Gordon, RHCE
Sr. Technical Product Manager,
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform




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