From 8e2423a3886a457c649d9b0eeddea78ad60dafbd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos Cesario Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 13:01:25 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] Added note about nested environment Added information when using nested environment for Kolla deployment. Added check command to verify hardware acceleration Change-Id: I6cb43ebbf11b5cf34f866fdccb550e9641a47f6c --- doc/quickstart.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/quickstart.rst b/doc/quickstart.rst index ef0ae708cb..6a842c3d90 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.