After configuring the Compute Services on the controller node, configure a second system to be 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 this guide uses separate systems. This makes it easy to scale horizontally by adding additional Compute nodes following the instructions in this section. The Compute Service relies on a hypervisor to run virtual machine instances. OpenStack can use various hypervisors, but this guide uses KVM. Begin by configuring the system using the instructions in . Note the following differences from the controller node: Use different IP addresses when configuring eth0. This guide uses 192.168.0.11 for the internal network. Change or configure eth1 to manual rather than static. Set the hostname to compute1. Ensure that the IP addresses and hostnames for both nodes are listed in the /etc/hosts file on each system. Follow the instructions in to synchronize from the controller node. Install the MySQL client libraries. You do not need to install the MySQL database server or start the MySQL service. Enable the OpenStack packages for the distribution you are using, see . After configuring the operating system, install the appropriate packages for the compute service. # apt-get install nova-compute-kvm python-novaclient python-guestfs Select "Yes" when asked to create a supermin appliance during install. # yum install openstack-nova-compute # zypper install openstack-nova-compute kvm openstack-utils Due to this bug that is marked "Won't Fix", guestfs is restricted. Run the following command to relax the restriction: # chmod 0644 /boot/vmlinuz* Either copy and modify the file /etc/nova/nova.conf from the controller node, or run the same configuration commands. # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf \ database connection mysql://nova:NOVA_DBPASS@controller/nova # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT auth_strategy keystone # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT auth_host controller # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT admin_user nova # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT admin_tenant_name service # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT admin_password NOVA_DBPASS # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf \ database connection mysql://nova:NOVA_DBPASS@controller/nova Edit /etc/nova/nova.conf and add to the appropriate sections. ... [DEFAULT] ... auth_strategy=keystone ... [database] # The SQLAlchemy connection string used to connect to the database connection = mysql://nova:NOVA_DBPASS@controller/nova # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf \ DEFAULT rpc_backend nova.openstack.common.rpc.impl_qpid # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT qpid_hostname controller Configure the Compute Service to use the RabbitMQ message broker by setting the following configuration keys. They are found in the DEFAULT configuration group of the /etc/nova/nova.conf file. rpc_backend = nova.rpc.impl_kombu rabbit_host = controller Remove the SQLite Database created by the packages # rm /var/lib/nova/nova.sqlite Set the configuration keys my_ip, vncserver_listen, and vncserver_proxyclient_address to the IP address of the compute node on the internal network. # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT my_ip 192.168.0.11 # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT vncserver_listen 192.168.0.11 # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT vncserver_proxyclient_address 192.168.0.11 Edit /etc/nova/nova.conf and add to the [DEFAULT] section. [DEFAULT] ... my_ip=192.168.0.11 vncserver_listen=0.0.0.0 vncserver_proxyclient_address=192.168.0.11 Specify the host running the Image Service. Edit /etc/nova/nova.conf and add to the [DEFAULT] section. # openstack-config --set /etc/nova/nova.conf DEFAULT glance_host controller [DEFAULT] ... glance_host=controller Copy the file /etc/nova/api-paste.ini from the controller node, or edit the file to add the credentials in the [filter:authtoken] section. [filter:authtoken] paste.filter_factory=keystoneclient.middleware.auth_token:filter_factory auth_host=controller auth_port = 35357 auth_protocol = http admin_user=nova admin_tenant_name=service admin_password=NOVA_DBPASS Ensure that api_paste_config=/etc/nova/api-paste.ini is set in /etc/nova/nova.conf. Start the Compute service and configure it to start when the system boots. Restart the Compute service. # service nova-compute restart # service openstack-nova-compute start # chkconfig openstack-nova-compute on