Kimchi is an HTML5 based management tool for the KVM virtualization infrastructure. Permits access via the Spice protocol or VNC

Status as of 2017-11-24: The apps is complete. Next step is to ask both ClearOS and Kimchi communities to test extensively.

Your server must support virtualization. You will see a warning if this is not the case.

  1. Install a ClearOS system
  2. Register the ClearOS system (to configure the CentOS/EPEL repos properly)
  3. Run: 
    yum install app-kimchi
  4. Open up firewall port TCP / 8001 at ClearOS -> Firewall -> Incoming Firewall -> Allowed Incoming Connections (https://example.org:81/app/incoming_firewall)
  5. Reboot your server
  6. Visit Server -> Virtualization -> Kimchi in the ClearOS admin panel ( or directly https://example:81/app/kimchi )
  7. Make sure Kimchi is running
  8. Follow the link to access the Kimchi Admin Console (https://example.org:8001/)


2017 08 19 Kimchi Admin Panel

When you log into the Kimchi/Wok web interface, you might only have the "Wok' and 'Host' tabs, but not the "Virtualization" tab (screenshot:) . This will be the case if the underlying hardware does not support KVM.

Networking

  1. https://example:8001/#plugins/kimchi/tabs/network
  2. Add a network
    • Network Type: "Bridged: Virtual machines are connected through a network bridge"
    • Destination: Use a different network interface than the main one used by ClearOS

Known issues

  • ISO templates don't work, so you need to SFTP the ISOs on the server.
    • Create a sub-directory of /var/lib/libvirt
    • Upload ISO there (or wget them to there)
    • Use that path when creating a virtual machine template