I was trying to Deploy Openstack for testing inside VirtualBox and i got an error “NoValidHost: No valid host was found. There are not enough hosts available.” while trying to run an instance with nova boot command.
I did it after converting VDI to Qcow2 and trying to launch it on Nova, check
This normally happens when you’re using qemu as hypervisor inside VirtualBox instead of KVM acceleration to run Openstack Compute service (Nova).
QEMU
From the perspective of the Compute service, the QEMU hypervisor is very similar to the KVM hypervisor. Both are controlled through libvirt, both support the same feature set, and all virtual machine images that are compatible with KVM are also compatible with QEMU.
The main difference is that QEMU does not support native virtualization. Consequently, QEMU has worse performance than KVM and is a poor choice for a production deployment.

When you try to launch an instance with nova boot command and get status ‘ERROR’, the log file /var/log/nova/nova-conductor.log is likely outputting the error “NoValidHost: No valid host was found.There are not enough hosts available. “. You can check it by running:
tail -f /var/log/nova/nova-conductor.log
To fix this problem, open nova.conf file and add the following lines.
$ sudo vim /etc/nova/nova.conf
[DEFAULT]
# Add
compute_driver = libvirt.LibvirtDriver
[libvirt]
virt_type = kvm
We enabled QEMU with above command and make compute driver to be libvirt.LibvirtDriver. We also set virt_type to kvm.
All values that can be set for virt_type depending on the hypervisor you’re using are:
- kvm
- lxc
- qemu
- uml
- xen
- parallels
For some operations you may also have to install the guestmount utility:
On Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt install guestmount
On CentOS and RHEL
sudo yum install libguestfs-tools
On openSUSE:
sudo zypper install guestfs-tools
Both QEMU and KVM hypervisor supports the following virtual machine image formats:
- Raw
- QEMU Copy-on-write (qcow2)
- VMware virtual machine disk format (vmdk)
You should now be able to launch an instance with Openstack Nova using QEMU hypervisor.
Tags:
- How to Setup Qemu as Openstack Hypervisor
- How to Fix “NoValidHost: No valid host was found.There are not enough hosts available. on CentOS 7 Openstack Host OS.
- Installing guestfs-tools on Linux
- Nova integration with Qemu
More on OpenStack:
- How To Migrate OpenStack Instance from one Compute Host to Another
- How To Resize OpenStack Instance / Virtual Machine
- How To Create OpenStack Cinder Volumes and Attach to a VM
- How To Add RHEL 8 qcow2 Image To OpenStack Glance
should restart nova_conductor after change configuration?
podman restart nova_conductor