Virsh
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Overview
virsh is a command-line tool for managing the KVM hypervisor and guest virtual machines. It is part of the libvirt-client package.
virsh 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
| Operation Category | |||||||||
| Storage Pool | pool-list | pool-info | pool-define-as | pool-build | pool-start | pool-autostart | pool-destroy | pool-delete | pool-undefine |
| Storage Volume | vol-list | vol-info | vol-name | vol-path | vol-key | vol-create-as | vol-delete | ||
| define | |||||||||
| edit | dumpxml | ||||||||
| start | shutdown | ||||||||
| list | |||||||||
| undefine |