On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 02:27:00PM -0500, Sergio Cuellar Valdes wrote:
[...]
> I'm confused too about the use of KVM or QEMU In the computes the
> file/etc/nova/nova-compute.conf has:
>
> virt_type=kvm
>
> The output of:
>
> nova hypervisor-show <id> | grep hypervisor_type
>
> is:
>
> hypervisor_type | QEMU
As Dan noted in his response, it's because it is reporting the libvirt driver
name (which is reported as QEMU).
Refer below if you want to double-confirm if your instances are using KVM.
>
> The virsh dumpxml of the instances shows:
>
> <domain type='kvm' id='44'>
That means, yes, you using KVM. You can confirm that by checking your QEMU
command-line of the Nova instance, you'll see something like "accel=kvm":
# This is on Fedora 23 system
$ ps -ef | grep -i qemu-system-x86_64
[...] /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -machine accel=kvm [...]
> ....
> <emulator>/usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64</emulator>
>
> But according to this document [1], it is using QEMU emulator instead of
> KVM, because it is not using /usr/bin/qemu-kvm
>
>
> So I really don't know if it's using KVM or QEMU.
As noted above, a sure-fire way to know is to see if the instance's QEMU
command-line has "accel=kvm".
A related useful tool is `virt-host-validate` (which is part of libvirt-client
package, at least on Fedora-based systems):
$ virt-host-validate | egrep -i 'kvm'
QEMU: Checking if device /dev/kvm exists
: PASS
QEMU: Checking if device /dev/kvm is accessible
: PASS
> [1] https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html
>
--
/kashyap
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