Category Archives: OpenStack
Obstacles for your OpenStack cloud
This short post is for all OpenStack users or administrators who like to use tiny base images to test the functionality of their OpenStack environment. I really like the very small CirrOS image, it allows you to launch instances very … Continue reading
Posted in OpenStack, SUSE Cloud, Virtualisation
Tagged cirros, glance, image partition table, openstack
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OpenStack: How to enable live-migration on KVM
For quite some time I had live-migration on my mind but never really had the time to dig into this deep enough to get it working. But a couple of weeks ago this topic came up again, we were planning … Continue reading
Posted in Ceph, OpenStack, Virtualisation
Tagged kvm live-migration libvirt nova, openstack
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How to migrate instances from Xen to KVM
This post is a short one, basically it contains only two steps. The goal is to be able to launch a Xen instance on a KVM host. Currently, we are testing KVM as hypervisor for our private (OpenStack) cloud as … Continue reading