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virsh cheat sheet
i am currently working with kvm a little bit, so as usual i tried to figure out the command line version instead of relying on virt-manager. this is great since, virt-manager is not guaranteed to work across the network without a little setup. source is taken from here
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Command |
Description |
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virsh list --all |
Show a list of all the defined guests |
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virsh dominfo guest's_name |
Show a guest’s info |
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virsh start guest's_name |
Start a guest |
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virsh shutdown guest's_name |
Shutdown a guest (gently via acpi) |
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virsh destroy guest's_name |
Shutdown a guest (force) |
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virsh suspend guest's_name |
Suspend a guest |
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virsh resume guest's_name |
Resume a suspended guest |
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virsh create xml_file.xml |
Create a guest from its XML definition |
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virsh dumpxml guest's_name |
Dump a guest’s definition in XML |
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virsh edit guest's_name |
Modify a guest’s definition |
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virsh undefine guest's_name |
Remove a guest’s definition (it doesn’t remove the image file) |
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virsh undefine guest's_name --remove-all-storage |
Remove a guest’s definition and all the associatied storage |
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virsh save guest's_name guest's_state_file |
Save a guest’s state on a file |
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virsh restore guest's_state_file |
Restore a guest from a state file |
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virsh console guest's_name |
open a CLI console to the guest (installed OS must support it) |
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virt-viewer guest's_name |
Open a vnc console to the guest |
if you got any more to add to the cheat sheet, write a comment and i will add it
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libvirt
virsh is the interface to libvirt