The following sections describe the configuration options in the nova.conf file. You must copy the nova.conf file to each compute node. The sample nova.conf files show examples of specific configurations. This example nova.conf file configures a small private cloud with cloud controller services, database server, and messaging server on the same server. In this case, CONTROLLER_IP represents the IP address of a central server, BRIDGE_INTERFACE represents the bridge such as br100, the NETWORK_INTERFACE represents an interface to your VLAN setup, and passwords are represented as DB_PASSWORD_COMPUTE for your Compute (nova) database password, and RABBIT PASSWORD represents the password to your message queue installation. This example nova.conf file, from an internal Rackspace test system, is used for demonstrations.

This example nova.conf file is from an internal Rackspace test system. verbose nodaemon network_manager=nova.network.manager.FlatManager image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService flat_network_bridge=xenbr0 compute_driver=xenapi.XenAPIDriver xenapi_connection_url=https://<XenServer IP> xenapi_connection_username=root xenapi_connection_password=supersecret xenapi_image_upload_handler=nova.virt.xenapi.image.glance.GlanceStore rescue_timeout=86400 use_ipv6=true # To enable flat_injected, currently only works on Debian-based systems flat_injected=true ipv6_backend=account_identifier ca_path=./nova/CA # Add the following to your conf file if you're running on Ubuntu Maverick xenapi_remap_vbd_dev=true [database] connection=mysql://root:<password>@127.0.0.1/nova