This is not always installed by default. When run, it will bring up a full console window that shows all virtuals running on a system, similar to the top command.

The main controller for virt-lib. The basic format of the command is

virsh command parameters

. man virsh or simply virsh –help are your friends.

Some common commands are:

• list –all - list all domains virt-lib knows about and show their state (running, off, whatever)
• start name - starts the domain named name (name from list –all)
• reboot name
• shutdown name
• dumpxml name dumps the config to STDOUT
• list –autostart - list all domains which will autostart
• autostart domain - set domain to be autostarted in the future
• autostart –disable domain - unset autostart flag for domain
• console domain - attaches to the serial console of domain assuming the port has been set up.
• Attach/Detach network interfaces (https://computingforgeeks.com/managing-kvm-network-interfaces-in-linux/)
  • attach-interface –domain pxe –type bridge –source br1 –model virtio –config –live
  • detach-interface –domain pxe –type bridge –mac 52:54:00:47:2f:eb –config

virsh net-list --all
virsh net-destroy br1
virsh net-undefine br1
virsh net-list --all

virsh -c xen:/// domxml-to-native --format xen-xl \
    /path/to/libvirt/vm.domxml.cfg > vm.xenxl.cfg

domxml to native