| Author: | openstack@lists.openstack.org | 
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| Date: | 2012-09-27 | 
| Copyright: | OpenStack Foundation | 
| Version: | 2012.1 | 
| Manual section: | 1 | 
| Manual group: | cloud computing | 
nova-compute [options]
Handles all processes relating to instances (guest vms). nova-compute is responsible for building a disk image, launching it via the underlying virtualization driver, responding to calls to check its state, attaching persistent storage, and terminating it.
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