KVM and libvirt

Cheat sheet

• virsh list --all all VMs
• virsh start vm start it
• virsh shutdown vm graceful shutdown (ACPI)
• virsh console vm serial console (Ctrl+] to exit)
• virsh net-list --all virtual networks
• virsh domiflist vm a VM's interfaces
• virsh snapshot-create-as vm snap a snapshot
• virsh -c qemu+ssh://user@host/system list a remote host