[CLOUDSTACK-10456] CloudStack GSoC 2023 - Extend Import-Export Instances to the KVM Hypervisor

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Labels: gsoc2023 part-time
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/7127
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Nicolás Vázquez
• Created: 09/Feb/23 15:24
• Updated: 03/Mar/23 03:34

Description

Github issue: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/issues/7127

 

Description:

The Import-Export functionality is only allowed for the Vmware hypervisor. The functionality is developed within a VM ingestion framework that allows the extension to other hypervisors. The Import-Export functionality consists on few APIs and the UI to interact with them:

• listUnmanagedInstances: Lists unmanaged virtual machines (not existing in CloudStack but existing on the hypervisor side)
• importUnmanagedInstance: Import an unmanaged VM into CloudStack (this implies populating the database with the corresponding data)
• unmanageVirtualMachine: Make CloudStack forget a VM but do not remove it on the hypervisor side

The complexity on KVM should be parsing the existing XML domains into different resources and map them in CloudStack to populate the database correctly.