https://kb.unixservertech.com/ 2026-04-21T20:58:45+00:00 https://kb.unixservertech.com/ https://kb.unixservertech.com/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2022-05-20T04:28:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/unix/virtualization/virtlib/importxen?rev=1653020936&do=diff Import Xen virtuals to KVM/Xen Warning: Preliminary. These are my notes I'm getting ready to try. This is a work in progress, as I've not been able to find anything on the 'net about it. Everything I've seen assumes your Xen virtuals are being managed by libvirt already, so it is a matter of using some built in utilities. text/html 2022-05-23T02:22:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/unix/virtualization/virtlib/migrate?rev=1653272524&do=diff Migrating with virsh First, my setup. We have a couple of semi-new servers for hypervisors, but we also wanted a couple of backup machines so we could migrate to them, do maintenance, then migrate back. So, a real mixture of cpu's. All of our backend stores are on an iSCSI server which is text/html 2026-04-15T00:17:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/unix/virtualization/virtlib/quickreference?rev=1776212247&do=diff virt-lib Quick Reference virtlib stores its configuration for each domain (virtual) in /etc/libvirt/qemu*.xml. You should not manually modify anything in this directory, but you can safely do any read-only operation. To edit/export/whatever, the virsh text/html 2020-10-17T07:11:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/unix/virtualization/virtlib/start?rev=1602918661&do=diff virt-lib virt-lib is a wrapper created by RedHat to control several Linux virtualization technologies. It supports managing KVM, Xen and other virtualization technologies, allowing a single set of commands to be used. text/html 2025-01-18T21:32:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://kb.unixservertech.com/unix/virtualization/virtlib/winvirtuals?rev=1737235959&do=diff Windows Virtuals Windows 11 Windows 11 requires TPM and Secure Boot. See Install Windows 11 Virtual for detailed instructions Shutdown and Reboot don't work If you can not issue the command virsh shutdown domname where domname is a running domain, the problem may be that the QEMU guest agent is either not installed on your Windows virtual, or the configuration for the domain on your hypervisor is not set up.