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| author | Carlos Cesario <carloscesario@gmail.com> | 2016-03-21 13:01:25 -0300 |
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| committer | Carlos Cesario <carloscesario@gmail.com> | 2016-03-22 10:20:01 -0300 |
| commit | 8e2423a3886a457c649d9b0eeddea78ad60dafbd (patch) | |
| tree | a0820020dcb5873a8a1681417e2351a51e4466fb | |
| parent | 31e873420587e379806344e25c4340e7adfb3d16 (diff) | |
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Added note about nested environment
Added information when using nested environment for Kolla deployment.
Added check command to verify hardware acceleration
Change-Id: I6cb43ebbf11b5cf34f866fdccb550e9641a47f6c
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diff --git a/doc/quickstart.rst b/doc/quickstart.rst index ef0ae708c..6a842c3d9 100644 --- a/doc/quickstart.rst +++ b/doc/quickstart.rst @@ -472,6 +472,29 @@ In order to see all available parameters, run: kolla-ansible -h +.. NOTE:: In case of deploying using the _nested_ environment (*eg*. + Using Virtualbox VM's, KVM VM's), if your compute node supports + hardware acceleration for virtual machines. + + For this, run the follow command in **compute node**: + +:: + + $ egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo + + +If this command returns a value of **zero**, your compute node does not +support hardware acceleration and you **must** configure libvirt to use +**QEMU** instead of KVM. + +For this, change the **virt_type** option in the `[libvirt]` section +of **nova-compute.conf** file inside the **/etc/kolla/config/** directory. + +:: + + [libvirt] + virt_type=qemu + A bare metal system with Ceph takes 18 minutes to deploy. A virtual machine deployment takes 25 minutes. These are estimates; different hardware may be faster or slower but should be near these results. |