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| '''Storage Pool''' ||  [[Virsh pool-list|pool-list]]  || [[Virsh pool-info|pool-info]] || [[virsh pool-create|pool-create]] || [[virsh pool-define-as|pool-define-as]] || [[Virsh pool-build|pool-build]] || [[Virsh pool-start|pool-start]] || [[Virsh pool-autostart|pool-autostart]] || [[virsh pool-destroy|pool-destroy]] || [[virsh pool-delete|pool-delete]] || [[virsh pool-undefine|pool-undefine]]
| '''Storage Pool''' ||  [[Virsh pool-list|pool-list]]  || [[Virsh pool-info|pool-info]] || [[virsh pool-create|pool-create]] || [[virsh pool-define-as|pool-define-as]] || [[Virsh pool-build|pool-build]] || [[Virsh pool-start|pool-start]] || [[Virsh pool-autostart|pool-autostart]] || [[virsh pool-edit|pool-edit]] || [[virsh pool-destroy|pool-destroy]] || [[virsh pool-delete|pool-delete]] || [[virsh pool-undefine|pool-undefine]]
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| '''Storage Volume''' || [[virsh vol-list|vol-list]] || [[virsh vol-info|vol-info]] || [[virsh vol-name|vol-name]] || [[virsh vol-path|vol-path]] || [[virsh vol-key|vol-key]] || [[virsh vol-create-as|vol-create-as]] || [[virsh vol-delete|vol-delete]]
| '''Storage Volume''' || [[virsh vol-list|vol-list]] || [[virsh vol-info|vol-info]] || [[virsh vol-name|vol-name]] || [[virsh vol-path|vol-path]] || [[virsh vol-key|vol-key]] || [[virsh vol-create-as|vol-create-as]] || [[virsh vol-delete|vol-delete]]

Revision as of 19:30, 28 June 2017

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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-destroy pool-delete pool-undefine
Storage Volume vol-list vol-info vol-name vol-path vol-key vol-create-as vol-delete
Nework net-edit
Guest VMs list define dumpxml edit start console shutdown undefine