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apt-get install qemu-kvm virtinst virt-manager bridge-utils libosinfo-bin sudo adduser $USER kvm #apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin virtinst bridge-utils cpu-checker sudo kvm-ok #check
systemctl status libvirtd.service
https://github.com/LuyaoHuang/virsh-bash-completion #bash completion
virsh list #show running vm´s virsh list --all #show all vm´s virsh undefine vm1 virsh destroy vm1 virsh start vm-name virsh autostart test # virsh reboot vm-name virsh shutdown vm-name virsh suspend vm-name virsh resume vm-name virsh autostart vm-name virsh autostart --disable vm-name virsh domrename $OLD_NAME $NEW_NAME virsh domrename --domain oldname newname #rename domain/ vm virsh edit vm-name #edit vm properties osinfo-query os #list available os when specify os by "--os-variant" - package "libosinfo-bin" is required! virsh net-list #list running network configs virsh net-list --all #list all network configs virsh dumpxml vm-name #xml-config to stdout virt-manager #gui to show, manage and create vm´s virsh snapshot-list vm-name virsh snapshot-create-as vm-name virsh snapshot-create-as --domain vm-name --name snap-name virsh snapshot-info --domain vm-name --snapshotname snap-name virsh snapshot-revert --current vm-name virsh snapshot-delete --current vm-name virsh snapshot-delete --domain vm-name --snapshotname snap-name virsh snapshot-create-as --disk-only vm-name virsh snapshot-delete --current --metadata vm-name #delete "disk-snapshot"
virsh pool-list #show active storage pool virsh pool-list --all #show also inactice pool virsh pool-info poolname #detailed pool info virsh pool-autostart poolame virsh pool-start poolname virsh pool-undefine poolname #set inactive virsh pool-destroy poolname #delete pool "default" virsh pool-edit poolname virsh pool-define-as --name default --type dir --target /media/work/kvm
virsh vol-list default virsh vol-list default --details virsh vol-delete volume-name.qcow2 --pool default virsh vol-create-as default test_vol2.qcow2 2G virsh vol-clone --pool default vol1.qcow2 vol2.qcow2 qemu-img resize volume-name.qcow2 30G
Simple Guest Clone
#!/bin/bash echo "" echo "Overview VM´s:" echo "" virsh list --all echo "" read -p "Please enter the name of the vm you want to clone: " SOURCEVM echo "" read -p "Please enter the name of the cloned vm: " DESTVM echo "" virt-clone \ --original $SOURCEVM \ --auto-clone \ --name $DESTVM STATUS=$(echo $?) echo "" if [ $STATUS -eq 0 ] then echo "VM \"$DESTVM\" cloned." else echo "Problem - VM not cloned!" fi
journalctl -a -b -k -u libvirtd.service systemctl status libvirtd.service