https://wiki.tkc-online.de/ 2026-05-06T13:56:09+00:00 https://wiki.tkc-online.de/ https://wiki.tkc-online.de/lib/exe/fetch.php/wiki:logo.png text/html 2018-06-08T16:42:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tkc-online.de/doku.php/public:kvm:access:local_libvirt?rev=1528476156&do=diff Local libvirt access Overview The command line tool of choice for accessing the libvirt process is virsh. The command virsh help shows all defined sub-commands. The sub-commands are organized in the following command groups: root@kvm55:~# virsh help |grep 'help keyword' Domain Management (help keyword 'domain'): Domain Monitoring (help keyword 'monitor'): Host and Hypervisor (help keyword 'host'): Interface (help keyword 'interface'): Network Filter (help keyword 'filter'): Networking (… text/html 2018-06-08T19:53:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tkc-online.de/doku.php/public:kvm:access:local_vhost?rev=1528487625&do=diff Local vhost access The GUI of a vhost can only be displayed on a host on which a GUI is installed. On most KVM hosts a GUI is not installed. That's why the GUI of a vhost often cannot be displayed on a KVM server. But access to the console of a vhost is easily possible on a kvm host. The command text/html 2018-06-08T19:17:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tkc-online.de/doku.php/public:kvm:access:remote_libvirt?rev=1528485456&do=diff Remote libvirt access There are two opportunities to access libvirt remotely: * command line access: remote access to virsh * graphical user interface (GUI) access: Virtual Machine Manager Both opportunities need a mechanism of remote access from the client host to the remote KVM server. That's why the remote access mechanisms are described first before command line and text/html 2018-06-08T19:53:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://wiki.tkc-online.de/doku.php/public:kvm:access:remote_vhost?rev=1528487582&do=diff Remote vhost access Every virtual host running on KVM can have a vnc or a spice graphical interface. The spice interface was neither used nor tested so far and thus is not further described here. There are two opportunities to access the vnc interface of a vhost remotely: