Virsh

External

• RHEL7 Virtualization Administration - Managing guest virtual machine with virsh

Internal

• Linux Virtualization Concepts - libvirt
• Linux Virtualization Operations
• virt-install

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-create	vol-clone	vol-delete
Nework	net-edit
Guest VMs	list	define	dumpxml	edit	start	console	shutdown	undefine
	domstate	snapshot
Guest Device Management	attach-disk