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Document KVM VM metadata handling in unmanage process
Added a warning about KVM VM metadata preservation when unmanaged.
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source/adminguide/virtual_machines/importing_unmanaging_vms.rst

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@@ -360,6 +360,10 @@ The API has the following preconditions:
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- The Instance state must be 'Running’ or ‘Stopped’
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- The Instance must be a VMware Instance (as of CloudStack 4.19, it's also possible to unmanage a KVM-based Instances)
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.. warning::
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Starting with the 4.22.0 release, when a KVM VM is unmanaged, its infrastructure metadata (zone, pod, cluster, and host) in the libvirt VM XML is preserved.
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This information is left for the user’s discretion—allowing them to either retain it or remove it manually or through scripts.
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The API execution will perform the following pre-checks, failing if they are not met:
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- There are no Volume Snapshots associated with any of the Instance volumes

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