So the problem is that the KernelController knows nothing about the server. I did get past this doing: | // Register the Server instance in the kernel | Kernel kernel = getKernel(); | KernelController controller = kernel.getController(); | KernelRegistry registry = kernel.getRegistry(); | KernelConfigurator config = kernel.getConfigurator(); | BeanInfo info = config.getBeanInfo(server.getClass());; | AbstractBeanMetaData metaData = new AbstractBeanMetaData("org.jboss.system.server.Server", null); | AbstractKernelControllerContext serverEntry = new AbstractKernelControllerContext(info, metaData, server); | controller.install(serverEntry); | At first this failed because the server instance was being restarted by the kernel while it was already in start due to the ServerLoader calling start. I just worked around this for now by checking for a duplicate call. I need to figure out how to install a bean that is already started. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3964024#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...