Just like with the Cloud Controller, the OpenStack Compute service is installed on the Compute Node. However, this time the nova-compute service is installed. This provides the Compute Node the capability to host virtual machines. Install the OpenStack Compute package: # apt-get install nova-compute-kvm # yum install openstack-nova-compute # zypper install openstack-nova-compute kvm If your CPU does not support hardware-assisted virtualization (HVM) such as Intel VT-x or AMD-V or you are running in a virtualized environment, use the nova-compute-qemu qemu package which provides software-based virtualization. Configure OpenStack Compute: Edit /etc/nova/api-paste.ini: [filter:authtoken] auth_host = 10.10.10.10 admin_tenant_name = service admin_user = nova admin_password = password Edit /etc/nova/nova.conf: [DEFAULT] # General verbose=True my_ip=10.10.10.11 rabbit_host=10.10.10.10 rabbit_password=password auth_strategy=keystone ec2_host=10.10.10.10 ec2_url=http://10.10.10.10:8773/services/Cloud # Networking libvirt_use_virtio_for_bridges=True libvirt_vif_driver=nova.virt.libvirt.vif.LibvirtHybridOVSBridgeDriver network_api_class=nova.network.neutronv2.api.API neutron_url=http://10.10.10.10:9696 neutron_auth_strategy=keystone neutron_admin_tenant_name=service neutron_admin_username=neutron neutron_admin_password=password neutron_admin_auth_url=http://10.10.10.10:35357/v2.0 # Security Groups firewall_driver=nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver security_group_api=neutron # Compute compute_driver=libvirt.LibvirtDriver connection_type=libvirt # Cinder volume_api_class=nova.volume.cinder.API # Glance glance_api_servers=10.10.10.10:9292 image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService # novnc vnc_enabled=true vncserver_proxyclient_address=10.10.10.11 novncproxy_base_url=http://10.0.0.10:6080/vnc_auto.html vncserver_listen=0.0.0.0 [DEFAULT] # General verbose=True qpid_hostname=192.168.206.130 auth_strategy=keystone ec2_host=10.10.10.10 ec2_url=http://10.10.10.10:8773/services/Cloud # Networking libvirt_use_virtio_for_bridges=True network_api_class=nova.network.neutronv2.api.API neutron_url=http://10.10.10.10:9696 neutron_auth_strategy=keystone neutron_admin_tenant_name=service neutron_admin_username=neutron neutron_admin_password=password neutron_admin_auth_url=http://10.10.10.10:35357/v2.0 # Security Groups firewall_driver=nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver security_group_api=neutron # Compute compute_driver=libvirt.LibvirtDriver connection_type=libvirt # Cinder volume_api_class=nova.volume.cinder.API # Glance glance_api_servers=10.10.10.10:9292 image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService # novnc vnc_enabled=true vncserver_proxyclient_address=10.10.10.11 novncproxy_base_url=http://10.0.0.10:6080/vnc_auto.html vncserver_listen=0.0.0.0 [DEFAULT] # General verbose=True rabbit_host=10.10.10.10 rabbit_password=password auth_strategy=keystone ec2_host=10.10.10.10 ec2_url=http://10.10.10.10:8773/services/Cloud # Networking libvirt_use_virtio_for_bridges=True network_api_class=nova.network.neutronv2.api.API neutron_url=http://10.10.10.10:9696 neutron_auth_strategy=keystone neutron_admin_tenant_name=service neutron_admin_username=neutron neutron_admin_password=password neutron_admin_auth_url=http://10.10.10.10:35357/v2.0 # Security Groups firewall_driver=nova.virt.firewall.NoopFirewallDriver security_group_api=neutron # Compute # compute_driver=libvirt.LibvirtDriver connection_type=libvirt # Cinder volume_api_class=nova.volume.cinder.API # Glance glance_api_servers=10.10.10.10:9292 image_service=nova.image.glance.GlanceImageService # novnc vnc_enabled=true vncserver_proxyclient_address=10.10.10.11 novncproxy_base_url=http://10.0.0.10:6080/vnc_auto.html vncserver_listen=0.0.0.0 If you do not wish to use nova-conductor to manage your database connections, you will need to add the following lines to your nova.conf: [database] connection=mysql://nova:password@10.10.10.10/nova [conductor] use_local=True Restart OpenStack Compute services: # service nova-compute restart # service openstack-nova-compute restart # chkconfig openstack-nova-compute on # systemctl restart openstack-nova-compute # systemctl enable openstack-nova-compute