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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