Virsh

External

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/chap-Managing_guest_virtual_machines_with_virsh.html

Internal

• Linux Virtualization Concepts - libvirt

Overview

virsh is a command-line tool for managing the KVM hypervisor and guest virtual machines. It is the primary tool to manage RHEL 7 virtualization.

It can be used to:

• create virtual machines
• configure virtual machines
• pause virtual machines
• list virtual machines
• shut down virtual machines
• manage virtual networks
• manage storage
• load virtual machine disk images

Installation

yum install libvirt-client

Commands

Storage Pool Operations	pool-list	pool-info	pool-define-as	pool-build	pool-start	pool-autostart	pool-destroy	pool-delete	pool-undefine
Storage Volume Operations	vol-list	vol-info	vol-name	vol-path	vol-key	vol-create-as	vol-delete
	define
	edit	dumpxml
	start	shutdown
	list