openstack-manuals/doc/install-guide/section_nova-compute.xml
Matthew Kassawara 01df671739 Added workaround for backported kernels on Ubuntu 12.04
I added a workaround for Ubuntu 12.04 using kernels backported from
newer releases that may not automatically load the KVM modules for
hardware acceleration of VMs when the system boots. Since this
issue affects compute nodes running on both bare metal and
hypervisors, I changed the step to check for nested hardware
acceleration support to check for general hardware acceleration
support.

Change-Id: Ifb3990123ffdeb40183c9f4a332dc06b1e60322e
Closes-Bug: #1313975
2014-04-30 06:42:11 -06:00

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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0"
xml:id="nova-compute">
<title>Configure a compute node</title>
<para>After you configure the Compute service on the controller
node, you must configure another system as a compute node. The
compute node receives requests from the controller node and hosts
virtual machine instances. You can run all services on a single
node, but the examples in this guide use separate systems. This
makes it easy to scale horizontally by adding additional Compute
nodes following the instructions in this section.</para>
<para>The Compute service relies on a hypervisor to run virtual
machine instances. OpenStack can use various hypervisors, but this
guide uses KVM.</para>
<procedure>
<step>
<para>Install the Compute packages:</para>
<screen os="ubuntu;debian"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get install nova-compute-kvm python-guestfs</userinput></screen>
<para os="ubuntu;debian">When prompted to create a
<literal>supermin</literal> appliance, respond
<userinput>yes</userinput>.</para>
<note os="debian">
<para>To use the meta-packages and install other components on
your compute node, such as OpenStack Networking and Ceilometer
agents, run this command:</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>apt-get install openstack-compute-node</userinput></screen>
<para>The controller node has the
<package>openstack-proxy-node</package> and
<package>openstack-toaster</package> meta-packages that
install <package>openstack-proxy-node</package> and
<package>openstack-toaster</package> at the same
time.</para>
</note>
<screen os="centos;rhel;fedora"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>yum install openstack-nova-compute</userinput></screen>
<screen os="opensuse;sles"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>zypper install openstack-nova-compute kvm openstack-utils</userinput></screen>
</step>
<step os="debian">
<para>Respond to the prompts for <link
linkend="debconf-dbconfig-common">database
management</link>, <link linkend="debconf-keystone_authtoken"
><literal>[keystone_authtoken]</literal> settings</link>,
<link linkend="debconf-rabbitqm">RabbitMQ
credentials</link>, and <link linkend="debconf-api-endpoints"
>API endpoint</link> registration.</para>
</step>
<step os="ubuntu">
<para>For security reasons, the Linux kernel is not readable by
normal users which restricts hypervisor services such as qemu
and libguestfs. For details, see <link
xlink:href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/759725"
>this bug</link>. To make the current kernel readable, run:
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 0644 /boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r)</userinput></screen>
To also enable this override for all future kernel updates, create the
file <filename>/etc/kernel/postinst.d/statoverride</filename>
containing:<programlisting language="bash">#!/bin/sh
version="$1"
# passing the kernel version is required
[ -z "${version}" ] &amp;&amp; exit 0
dpkg-statoverride --update --add root root 0644 /boot/vmlinuz-${version}</programlisting>
Remember to make the file executable:
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>chmod +x /etc/kernel/postinst.d/statoverride</userinput></screen>
</para>
</step>
<step>
<para os="fedora;rhel;centos;opensuse;sles">Edit the
<filename>/etc/nova/nova.conf</filename> configuration file:
</para>
<screen os="fedora;rhel;centos;opensuse;sles"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf database connection mysql://nova:<replaceable>NOVA_DBPASS</replaceable>@controller/nova</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT auth_strategy keystone</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf keystone_authtoken auth_uri http://<replaceable>controller</replaceable>:5000</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf keystone_authtoken auth_host <replaceable>controller</replaceable></userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf keystone_authtoken auth_protocol http</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf keystone_authtoken auth_port 35357</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf keystone_authtoken admin_user nova</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf keystone_authtoken admin_tenant_name service</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf keystone_authtoken admin_password <replaceable>NOVA_PASS</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para os="ubuntu;debian">Edit the
<filename>/etc/nova/nova.conf</filename> configuration file and add these
lines to the appropriate sections:</para>
<programlisting os="ubuntu;debian" language="ini">[DEFAULT]
...
auth_strategy = keystone
...
[database]
# The SQLAlchemy connection string used to connect to the database
connection = mysql://nova:NOVA_DBPASS@controller/nova
[keystone_authtoken]
auth_uri = http://<replaceable>controller</replaceable>:5000
auth_host = <replaceable>controller</replaceable>
auth_port = 35357
auth_protocol = http
admin_tenant_name = service
admin_user = nova
admin_password = <replaceable>NOVA_PASS</replaceable></programlisting>
</step>
<step os="fedora;rhel;centos;ubuntu;opensuse;sles">
<para os="fedora;rhel;centos">Configure the Compute service to use the
Qpid message broker by setting these configuration keys:</para>
<screen os="fedora;rhel;centos"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf \
DEFAULT rpc_backend qpid</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT qpid_hostname <replaceable>controller</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<para os="ubuntu">Configure the Compute service to use
the RabbitMQ message broker by setting these configuration
keys in the <literal>[DEFAULT]</literal> configuration group of
the <filename>/etc/nova/nova.conf</filename> file:</para>
<programlisting os="ubuntu" language="ini">[DEFAULT]
...
rpc_backend = rabbit
rabbit_host = controller
rabbit_password = <replaceable>RABBIT_PASS</replaceable></programlisting>
<para os="opensuse;sles">Configure the Compute service to use the RabbitMQ message broker
by setting these configuration keys:</para>
<screen os="opensuse;sles"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf \
DEFAULT rpc_backend nova.rpc.impl_kombu</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT rabbit_host controller</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT rabbit_password <replaceable>RABBIT_PASS</replaceable></userinput></screen>
</step>
<step>
<para>Configure Compute to provide remote console access to instances.</para>
<screen os="fedora;rhel;centos;opensuse;sles"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT my_ip 10.0.0.31</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT vnc_enabled True</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT vncserver_listen 0.0.0.0</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT vncserver_proxyclient_address 10.0.0.31</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf \
DEFAULT novncproxy_base_url http://<replaceable>controller</replaceable>:6080/vnc_auto.html</userinput></screen>
<para os="ubuntu;debian">Edit
<filename>/etc/nova/nova.conf</filename> and add the following
keys under the
<literal>[DEFAULT]</literal>
section:</para>
<programlisting os="ubuntu;debian" language="ini">[DEFAULT]
...
my_ip = 10.0.0.31
vnc_enabled = True
vncserver_listen = 0.0.0.0
vncserver_proxyclient_address = 10.0.0.31
novncproxy_base_url = http://<replaceable>controller</replaceable>:6080/vnc_auto.html</programlisting>
</step>
<step>
<para>Specify the host that runs the Image Service.<phrase
os="ubuntu;debian"> Edit
<filename>/etc/nova/nova.conf</filename> file and add
these lines to the <literal>[DEFAULT]</literal>
section:</phrase></para>
<screen os="fedora;rhel;centos;opensuse;sles"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT glance_host <replaceable>controller</replaceable></userinput></screen>
<programlisting os="ubuntu;debian" language="ini">[DEFAULT]
...
glance_host = <replaceable>controller</replaceable></programlisting>
</step>
<step>
<para>You must determine whether your system's processor and/or
hypervisor support hardware acceleration for virtual machines.</para>
<para>Run the following command:</para>
<screen><prompt>$</prompt> <userinput>egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo</userinput></screen>
<para>If this command returns a value of
<emphasis>one or greater</emphasis>, your system supports hardware
acceleration which typically requires no additional configuration.
</para>
<para>If this command returns a value of <emphasis>zero</emphasis>,
your system does not support hardware acceleration and you must
configure <literal>libvirt</literal> to use QEMU instead of KVM.</para>
<substeps>
<step os="ubuntu;debian">
<para>Edit the <literal>[libvirt]</literal> section in the
<filename>/etc/nova/nova-compute.conf</filename> file to modify
this key:</para>
<programlisting language="ini">[libvirt]
...
virt_type = qemu</programlisting>
</step>
<step os="rhel;centos;fedora;sles;opensuse">
<para>Run the following command:</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf libvirt virt_type qemu</userinput></screen>
</step>
</substeps>
<warning os="ubuntu">
<para>On Ubuntu 12.04, kernels backported from newer releases may not
automatically load the KVM modules for hardware acceleration when
the system boots. In this case, launching an instance will fail
with the following message in the
<filename>/var/log/nova/nova-compute.log</filename> file:</para>
<screen><computeroutput>libvirtError: internal error: no supported architecture for os type 'hvm'</computeroutput></screen>
<para>As a workaround for this issue, you must add the appropriate
module for your system to the <filename>/etc/modules</filename> file.
</para>
<para>For systems with Intel processors, run the following command:
</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>echo 'kvm_intel' >> /etc/modules</userinput></screen>
<para>For systems with AMD processors, run the following command:
</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>echo 'kvm_amd' >> /etc/modules</userinput></screen>
</warning>
</step>
<step os="ubuntu">
<para>Remove the SQLite database created by the packages:</para>
<screen><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>rm /var/lib/nova/nova.sqlite</userinput></screen>
</step>
<step>
<para os="fedora;rhel;centos;opensuse;sles">Start the Compute
service and configure it to start when the system
boots:</para>
<para os="ubuntu;debian">Restart the Compute service:</para>
<screen os="ubuntu;debian"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>service nova-compute restart</userinput></screen>
<screen os="fedora;rhel;centos"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>service libvirtd start</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>service messagebus start</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>chkconfig libvirtd on</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>chkconfig messagebus on</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>service openstack-nova-compute start</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>chkconfig openstack-nova-compute on</userinput></screen>
<screen os="opensuse;sles"><prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>service libvirtd start</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>chkconfig libvirtd on</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>service openstack-nova-compute start</userinput>
<prompt>#</prompt> <userinput>chkconfig openstack-nova-compute on</userinput></screen>
</step>
</procedure>
</section>