KVM | Administration & Management of Guest VMs

Below are the most commonly used KVM commands by the System Admins.

List all running VMs
# virsh list

List all running VMs irrespective of state.
# virsh list --all

Start/Shutdown/Reboot the VM
# virsh start guest_vm
# virsh shutdown guest_vm
# virsh reboot guest_vm

Suspend/Resume VM.
# virsh suspend guest_vm
# virsh resume guest_vm

Destroy VM instance
# virsh shutdown guest_vm
# virsh undefine guest_vm
# virsh destroy guest_vm

Enter Guest's Console
# virsh console guest_vm

Exit Guest's Console
Ctrl+]

To enable or disable Autostart of the Guest VMs with the Host .
# virsh autostart guest_vm
# virsh autostart --disable guest_vm

To get the UUID of the domain/vm
# virsh domuuid guest_vm

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Видео KVM | Administration & Management of Guest VMs канала Yogesh Mehta