install OpenStack Grizzly in CentOS6 VM which is running within KVM

Here is how to install openstack grizzly as a “all in one node” in a CentOS VM running within KVM.

just referred to http://openstack.redhat.com/Quickstart

KVM host info

# tail -1 /etc/lsb-release ;uname -ri;qemu-system-x86_64 --version DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.04" 3.8.0-27-generic x86_64 QEMU emulator version 1.4.0 (Debian 1.4.0+dfsg-1expubuntu4), Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard

CentOS VM has one vCPU, 2GB Memory, 15GB HDD and one NIC.

configure nested VM

VM’s xml file of that VM

on the KVM host

# virsh dumpxml 50 | grep cpu  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>  <cpu mode='host-passthrough'>  </cpu>

on the VM

# egrep '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc up arch_perfmon rep_good unfair_spinlock pni pclmulqdq vmx ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes hypervisor lahf_lm

install repository ( on the VM )

# yum install -y http://rdo.fedorapeople.org/openstack/openstack-grizzly/rdo-release-grizzly.rpm # cat /etc/yum.repos.d/rdo-release.repo [openstack-grizzly] name=OpenStack Grizzly Repository baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-grizzly/epel-6/ enabled=1 skip_if_unavailable=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-RDO-Grizzly priority=98

install packstack

# yum install -y openstack-packstack

install grizzly

# packstack --allinone --os-quantum-install=n 192.168.110.215_postscript.pp :                                      [ DONE ]                           [ DONE ] **** Installation completed successfully ******

access to the dashboard (Web interface Horizon)

user: admin

password : you can find credentials in /root/keystonerc_admin file.