Hypervisor selection
The majority of installations use either the Xen or KVM hypervisors, but there are a number of other hypervisors available for use with Nova. Both the Hyper-V and VMware hypervisors are supported as compute platforms. Bare-metal systems can be provisioned through Nova (Ironic project) and various drivers for containers have come and gone over the life of OpenStack. Running containers in OpenStack is a topic of great interest lately, and the OpenStack Magnum project has emerged as the current favorite model for their deployment within OpenStack.
Whether to pick the Xen or KVM hypervisor is almost a religious matter for some people. The KVM hypervisor is the most broadly used hypervisor on Linux, and it has support for ...
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