Hello Markus,

Thanks for coming back so quickly. I will read the document shortly. In the mean time my kvm hypervisor is already running and it's attached to iscsi storage.
Do I need to convert all machines ? or I can simply mange all the stuff through ovirt-engine like I am managing with virt-manager for now.


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Markus Stockhausen <stockhausen@collogia.de> wrote:
> Von: users-bounces@ovirt.org [users-bounces@ovirt.org]" im Auftrag von "kumar shantanu [k.shantanu2006@gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 19. September 2013 14:49
> An: users
> Betreff: [Users] Ovirt-engine
>
> Hello Everyone ,
>
> Can I use ovirt-engine to mange my already installed/running kvm host/guest ?
> If yes can someone guide me to the documentation/howto please ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Shantanu

Hello,

welcome to the list. ovirt uses a central management server (ovirt-engine) that
manages the machine definition in a database. It controls VMs on several hypervisor
hosts with this information. To get a VM into the database you have to import
it. virt-v2v helps me for VMWare sources and it should do the trick for you. Find
more info in chapter A.1.2.4 of this page:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_for_Servers/2.2/html/Administration_Guide/virt-v2v-scripts.html

Markus