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