Importing KVM instances from external KVM hosts or QCOW2
summary
CloudStack can import shut‑down KVM VMs over libvirt by connecting to port 16509, converting remote volumes to a temporary qcow2 in /tmp which is SCP‑copied to primary storage, using two APIs: listVmsForImport and importVm; SSH/SCP on default ports and admin credentials are required and the import can force a regenerated MAC. Operators can also create instances from an existing qcow2 in root of NFS primary (no backing file, not encrypted). VMware to KVM uses virt‑v2v on EL9 (v2.3.4) for best success; Windows 11 TPM is unsupported.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction to KVM instance imports
- 1:14Speaker introduction and background
- 3:02Importing KVM instances from remote hosts
- 6:32Creating instances from QCOW2 files
- 11:51Migrating VMware VMs to KVM
- 19:40Upcoming improvements in CloudStack 4.19.1
- 21:26Future scalability and performance plans
- 22:52Conference and community updates
- 23:12Q&A session
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