The node where the nova-compute
service is installed and
operates on the same node that runs all of the virtual machines.
This is referred to as the compute node in this guide.
By default, the selected hypervisor is KVM. To change to another hypervisor, change
the virt_type
option in the [libvirt]
section of
nova.conf
and restart the nova-compute
service.
Here are the general nova.conf
options that are used to configure the compute node's
hypervisor: Table 2.32, “Description of hypervisor configuration options”.
Specific options for particular hypervisors can be found in the following sections.