ERROR nova.virt.driver [-] Compute driver option required, but not specified

[varada]

installed nova-2013.1.g3, and when attempting to run 'nova-compute' with valid options..getting error "ERROR nova.virt.driver [-] Compute driver option required, but not specified"

nova.conf has the ‘compute_driver’ specified. I tried both options VMWareESXDriver and VMWareVCDriver..but no luck. May be I am missing a minor step here. Appreciate any help.

root@esxs2012:~# nova-compute --config-dir=/etc/nova/nova.conf --log-dir=/var/log/nova --verbose --debug
2013-03-02 05:07:26 2296 ERROR nova.virt.driver [-] Compute driver option required, but not specified
root@esxs2012:~# grep vmware /etc/nova/nova.conf
compute_driver=vmwareapi.VMWareVCDriver
#compute_driver: vmwareapi.VMWareESXDriver or vmwareapi.VMWareVCDriver
#:vmwareapi_host_ip: IP address or Name of VMware ESX/VC server.
#:vmwareapi_host_username: Username for connection to VMware ESX/VC Server.
#:vmwareapi_host_password: Password for connection to VMware ESX/VC Server.
#:vmwareapi_cluster_name: Name of a VMware Cluster ComputeResource.
#:vmwareapi_task_poll_interval: The interval (seconds) used for polling of remote tasks (default: 5.0).
#vmwareapi_api_retry_count: The API retry count in case of failure such as network failures (socket errors etc.) (default: 10).
#vmwareapi_cluster_name: When compute_driver is vmwareapi.VMWareVCDriver
vmwareapi_host_ip=10.49.202.48
vmwareapi_host_username=sysdep
vmwareapi_host_password=xxxxxxx
vmwareapi_wsdl_loc=http://127.0.0.1:8080/vmware/SDK/vsphere-ws/wsdl/vim25/vimService.wsdl
vmwareapi_vlan_interface="vmnic0"
vmware_vif_driver="nova.virt.vmwareapi.vif.VMWareVlanBridgeDriver"
root@esxs2012:~#

[marvel (marvelliu)]

I can confirm this bug.

[Jiangjunyu (double-chiang)]

After I installed a fresh copy of Kilo on Ubuntu 14.04, I have the same problem.
However, after searched, a reference might help on https://www.rdoproject.org/forum/discussion/242/nova-conf-compute_driver-setting/p1

Above link mentioned the driver option, and you can find doc on http://docs.openstack.org/kilo/config-reference/content/list-of-compute-config-options.html

It will let me fix this problem. Hope this will help.

[1091198228 (d1091198228)]

I encountered this error when installing the Nova compute version of Yogo. I uncomment the following line to solve this problem
Config file path:/etc/nova/nova.conf
> #compute_driver=libvirt.LibvirtDriver

[Daojin Chen (chendaojin)]

I have a same question with #3, and his way works. Thanks!