UI: Composed KVM machine which has a controller installed on it does not appear in KVM listing page

[Lee Trager]

A user on discourse composed a machine on a KVM host. They then installed a controller on the composed machine. The machine now only appears on the controllers page. It should be shown on the controllers page and the machine listing in the KVM host but not the main machines listing page. I suspect this is because when a controller is installed on a machine MAAS changes its type from MACHINE to RACK_CONTROLLER, REGION_CONTROLLER, or RACK_AND_REGION_CONTROLLER.

[1] https://discourse.maas.io/t/maas-rack-controller-as-kvm-guest/3645

[Thorsten Merten (thorsten-merten)]

this would need backend work first, the question if this is a usecase that we want to support.

[Jerzy Husakowski (jhusakowski)]

This requires a UX study to determine how controllers deployed on MAAS-managed kvm hosts should be handled. As such, this item has been moved to internal backlog for future prioritisation (int. ref. PF-4680)