Correct, importing existing (unmanaged) VMs from the KVM server is not directly supported.
Regards, Suresh On 13/08/21, 11:22 AM, "Eric Green" <[email protected]> wrote: 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. > > > > >
