Thanks, Suresh, and thank you,Eric, for the clarification. Glad I didn't go down the path of installing only to find out I couldn't just have cloudstack read in my existing setup as in virt-manager.
Any experience with other web UIs that might duplicate the functionality of virt-manager? I was also looking at VMDashboard - https://vmdashboard.org/ Thank you. On 2021/08/13 06:44:39, Suresh Anaparti <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
