Adds sample xenserver nova conf file

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annegentle 2011-10-28 14:50:44 -05:00
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doc/src/docbkx/openstack-compute-admin

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# first 3 octets of the network your volume service is on, substitute with real numbers
--iscsi_ip_prefix=nnn.nnn.nnn
</literallayout></simplesect>
<simplesect><title>XenServer 5.6, Flat networking, MySQL, and Glance, OpenStack API</title><para>This example nova.conf file is from an internal Rackspace test system. </para>
<literallayout class="monospaced">
--verbose
--nodaemon
--sql_connection=mysql://root:&lt;password&gt;@127.0.0.1/nova
--network_manager=nova.network.manager.FlatManager
--image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService
--flat_network_bridge=xenbr0
--connection_type=xenapi
--xenapi_connection_url=https://&lt;XenServer IP&gt;
--xenapi_connection_username=root
--xenapi_connection_password=supersecret
--rescue_timeout=86400
--allow_admin_api=true
--xenapi_inject_image=false
--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 flagfile if you're running on Ubuntu Maverick
--xenapi_remap_vbd_dev=true
</literallayout></simplesect>
</section>
<section xml:id="configuring-logging">
<title>Configuring Logging</title>
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<section xml:id="configuring-hypervisors">
<title>Configuring Hypervisors </title>
<para>OpenStack Compute requires a hypervisor and supports several hypervisors and virtualization standards. Configuring and running OpenStack Compute to use a particular hypervisor takes several installation and configuration steps. </para>
<para>OpenStack Compute requires a hypervisor and supports several hypervisors and
virtualization standards. Configuring and running OpenStack Compute to use a particular
hypervisor takes several installation and configuration steps. The --libvirt_type flag
indicates which hypervisor will be used.</para>
<table rules="all" >
<caption>Description of nova.conf flags for hypervisors </caption>
<thead>
<tr>
<td>Flag</td>
<td>Default</td>
<td>Description</td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>--libvirt_type</td>
<td>default: 'kvm'</td>
<td>Libvirt domain type (valid options are: kvm, lxc, qemu, uml, xen)</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section xml:id="configuring-authentication-authorization">
<title>Configuring Authentication and Authorization </title>

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</copyright>
<releaseinfo>Diablo</releaseinfo>
<productname>OpenStack Compute</productname>
<pubdate>2011-10-11</pubdate>
<pubdate>2011-10-28</pubdate>
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<annotation>
<remark>Copyright details are filled in by the template.</remark>