Changes to the OpenStack installation

OpenStack can run in a virtualized environment, but various components must be tuned accordingly. The configuration is not optimal but should provide an experience that is acceptable for demonstration purposes.

Changes to the Nova configuration

After the OpenStack installation is complete, a change must be made to the Nova configuration on the virtual machines running the nova-compute service before instances can be booted. Software-based virtualization must be enabled in place of the faster, hardware-based KVM hypervisor.

On the compute node virtual machines, edit the auxiliary Nova configuration file at /etc/nova/nova-compute.conf and set virt_type to qemu from kvm:

[libvirt]
...
virt_type=qemu

Restart the

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