I think adding vncdisplay to virsh list output will be very usefull. For example output could be like this: Id Name State Display ---------------------------------------------------- 1 test1 running :2 2 test2 running :5 3 test3 running :13 4 server1 running n/g 5 sdltest running sdl - test4 shut off off - test5 shut off off :n - vnc display number n/g - no graphics sdl - sdl output You can use "--display" to enable it command: virsh list --all --display Also I would like to see "--pretend" option in virt-install. Just generate xml and dump it to stdout without doing anything else.