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Hypervisor Configuration Basics
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The node where the ``nova-compute`` service is installed and operates on the
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same node that runs all of the virtual machines. This is referred to as the
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compute node in this guide.
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By default, the selected hypervisor is KVM. To change to another hypervisor,
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change the ``virt_type`` option in the ``[libvirt]`` section of ``nova.conf``
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and restart the ``nova-compute`` service.
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Specific options for particular hypervisors can be found in
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the following sections.
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