RHEV-M with nested VM for OSP

Since some time ago, I’ve been mostly dealing with OpenStack, requiring different releases to test for different tests, etc. Virtualization, as provided by KVM requires some CPU flags to get accelerated operations, vmx and svm depending on your processor architecture, but, of course, this is only provided on bare-metal. In order to get more flexibility at the expense of performance, nestedvt allows to expose those flags to the VM’s running at the hypervisor so you can run another level of VM’s inside those VM’s (this starts to sound like the movie Inception). ...

July 17, 2015 · 5 min · Pablo Iranzo Gómez
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