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-create | pool-define-as | pool-build | pool-start | ||
| pool-autostart | pool-edit | pool-dumpxml | pool-destroy | pool-delete | pool-undefine | |||
| Storage Volume | vol-list | vol-info | vol-name | vol-path | vol-key | vol-create-as | vol-clone | vol-delete |
| Nework | net-edit | |||||||
| Guest VMs | list | define | dumpxml | edit | start | console | shutdown | undefine |
| virsh domstate | ||||||||
| Guest Device Management | attach-disk |