1.2.5. OpenStack support

One of the services provided by OpenStack Nova is to create the virtual ports of the VMs so OpenStack Neutron can build the proper networking services toward these VMs. Virtual Accelerator’s virtual port support relies on the vhost-user feature, which is not natively supported by OpenStack yet. Therefore, 6WIND has built OpenStack plugins that enable the use of QEMU’s and libvirt’s vhost-user capabilities. They are provided separately.

6WIND OpenStack plugins should be installed at the last step of your deployment, when nova-compute, neutron-server and virtual-accelerator services are up and running:

Openstack Rocky and later releases:

root@compute:~# yum install -y fp-vdev-remote-stein-last.rpm
root@compute:~# yum install -y networking-6wind-stein-last.rpm
root@compute:~# yum install -y os-vif-6wind-plugin-stein-last.rpm

Openstack Queens and earlier releases:

# yum install -y 6wind-openstack-extensions

Note

OpenStack has to be installed before installing Virtual Accelerator and plugins.

Note

After OpenStack Queens, 6WIND neutron plugins have replaced this 6wind-openstack-extensions package.