bifrost/playbooks/roles/bifrost-create-vm-nodes/README.md
Fatih Degirmenci 6fa28b1fb7 Introduce support for kvm acceleration
This change introduces kvm acceleration support. The default settings
still use qemu as the domain type and kvm needs to be explicitly set
in order to enable it.

Change-Id: I59af1b7a844b927cac45722f7ea7ea4abeef7c8f
Signed-off-by: Fatih Degirmenci <fatih.degirmenci@ericsson.com>
2016-08-16 10:21:16 +02:00

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bifrost-create-vm-nodes
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This role creates virtual machines for testing bifrost.
Requirements
------------
The following packages are required and ensured to be present:
- libvirt-bin
- qemu-utils
- qemu-kvm
- sgabios
Role Variables
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baremetal_csv_file: "/tmp/baremetal.csv"
test_vm_memory_size: Tunable setting to allow a user to define a specific
amount of RAM in MB to allocate to guest/test VMs.
Defaults to "3072". Note: if this setting is modified
between test runs, you may need to undefine the test
virtual machine(s) that were previously created.
test_vm_domain_type: Tunable setting to allow a user to chosee the domain
type of the created VMs. The default is "qemu" and can
be set to kvm to enable kvm acceleration.
test_vm_num_nodes: Tunable setting to allow a user to define the number of
test VMs that will be created. They will all be created
with same settings.
Dependencies
------------
None at this time.
Example Playbook
----------------
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
become: yes
gather_facts: yes
roles:
- role: bifrost-create-vm-nodes
License
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Copyright (c) 2015 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.
Author Information
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Ironic Developers