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| '''Guest VMs''' || [[virsh list|list]] || [[virsh define|define]] || [[virsh dumpxml|dumpxml]]  || [[virsh edit|edit]]  || [[virsh start|start]] || [[virsh console|console]] || [[virsh shutdown|shutdown]] || [[virsh undefine|undefine]]
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| '''Guest Device Management''' || [[virsh attach-disk]]
| '''Guest Device Management''' || [[virsh attach-disk|attach-disk]]
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Revision as of 20:24, 28 June 2017

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Internal

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-delete
Nework net-edit
Guest VMs list define dumpxml edit start console shutdown undefine
Guest Device Management attach-disk