On Jan 22, 2013, at 1:26 AM, Rohit Yadav <bhais...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Sebastien Goasguen <run...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I am relaying a question about devcloud-kvm from folks that are not yet on >> the mailing list. >> >> There are two parts to the question: >> >> 1-How can we use devcloud to act as a host only node ? one devcloud would be >> run to have a mgt server and another one would be run to act as a separate >> host. Both devclouds running on two separate physical hosts. > > So, you cannot run kvm on a paravirtualized hpv, which is why devcloud > appliance would run xen, the hypervisor running can be virtualbox > (tools/devcloud) or kvm (tools/devcloud-kvm). > It's upto the hypervisor which is running the appliance to provide > host only network, while this is ready made in virtualbox, one can > setup a virtual network for vms in kvm (Marcus should advise here). > And yes, you can do that, run mgmt server+mysql in one devcloud and > use other as host+nfs/localstorage. > >> >> 2-Is it possible to configure devcloud-kvm to use qemu emulation without >> VT-x and not use xen ? >> > > I tried that once and it just did not work for me; maybe it's > possible, one should be able to run vms on qemu emulation. I think > http://devstack.org does that and so should be do-able. thanks Rohit, apparently devstack has a configuration variable that allows you to switch between kvm and qemu emulation > > Regards. > > >> Basically the folks I am talking to want to run devcloud and see "kvm" hosts >> in the infrastructure. >> >> thanks, >> >> -Sebastien
