[Openstack] How to Use kvm that supports hw accelerationon in my vmware guest vm

Scott Lowe scott.lowe at scottlowe.org
Fri Feb 26 07:53:56 UTC 2016


Please see my responses inline, prefixed by [SL].


> On Feb 25, 2016, at 11:23 PM, 디케이 <zuntong at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> after check the box for Intel-vt.
> How do I know hypervisor in guest VM OS can support nested OS?
> Guset VM OS is ubuntu.
> Kvm Hypervisor is installed for nova-compute inside guest VM


After making the setting to enable nested virtualization, just use `grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo` to verify that HW virtualization support is being passed into the guest.



> 2016년 2월 26일 금요일, Scott Lowe<scott.lowe at scottlowe.org>님이 작성한 메시지:
> Please see my response below.
> 
> 
> > On Feb 25, 2016, at 7:23 PM, 디케이 <zuntong at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> > In vmware workstation on my laptop, I create 3 virtual machines for openstack. (controller node, nw node, compute node)
> >
> > So 3-node is operating on vmware
> >
> > In compute node, no vmx or svm flag for KVM hardware acceleration in /proc/cpuinfo.
> > But my laptop intel cpu supports virtualization technology
> > And VT enabled at system bios , I checked out already.
> >
> > Is there any method to use kvm hypervisor using hw acceleration on my vmware guest VM that is compute node??
> 
> 
> Yes. See this article:
> 
> <https://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-8970>
> 
> Good luck!


-- 
Scott





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