Cloudstack will not, however, manage existing KVM virtual machines,
which is what Chris wants to do. While that is theoretically possible,
there's currently no practical way to populate the Cloudstack MySQL
database with the information needed to make that happen. It appears his
desire is to manage his current virtual machines with CloudStack, and
currently the only way to do that is to upload their disk image to
Cloudstack as a template, then deploy them to Cloudstack as a new
virtual machine.
On 8/12/2021 10:43 PM, Suresh Anaparti wrote:
Hi Chris,
Yes, CloudStack works with existing KVM, you can check the server requirements
and installation details here:
http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/en/latest/installguide/hypervisor/kvm.html#host-kvm-installation
Regards,
Suresh
On 13/08/21, 11:04 AM, "Chris Jefferies" <[email protected]> wrote:
I have an existing server running ubuntu 16.04 and it's been running KVM
for quite a while. Mostly I use virt-manager GUI over xwindows to manage my
VMs. Looking now for a web UI that can work with that.
Can Cloudstack be used as a remote manager, perhaps even running in a
separate VM instance, which is configured to manage the parent libvirt/qemu.
Can it discover the existing setup and be retrofitted with the existing
configs, storage pools (mostly LVM), etc.
If not, does anyone have suggestions. Thanks.
