[Openstack] Kolla Deployment QEMU instead of KVM

Chris Friesen chris.friesen at windriver.com
Tue Feb 28 21:25:45 UTC 2017


On 02/28/2017 02:39 PM, Georgios Dimitrakakis wrote:
> Hello community,
>
> I am deploying OpenStack using Kolla initially on an all-in-one physical
> dedicated server.
>
> My server supports KVM since I can get this for the CPUs:
>
> [root]# egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo
> 16
> [root]#
>
>
> But when I login to dashboard I see that the hypervisor type is "QEMU" under the
> "Admin->Hypervisors".
>
> I was expecting to see KVM here...Why is that? Any ideas on what can I do to
> solve it?

This is expected, and is not a problem.  It still uses qemu, just with KVM 
support enabled.

To double-check, I think you should be able to boot an instance and look for 
"accel=kvm" in the "-machine" portion of the qemu commandline args.

Chris




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