Re: [libvirt-users] Fwd: Re: installing and accessing a VM? - newbie question maybe

Thanks for your suggestion regarding *virt-viewer*. But I am on a server without any graphical Desktop Is there a CLI version of virt-viewer (or an equivalent tool CLI [which I though virsh --connect would have been)? Or does virt-viewer run in a CLI mode once you don't have a GUI? On August 28, 2016 at 9:52 PM Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: Have you tried to run virt-viewer and then select your VM? On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:50 AM, <vrms(a)netcologne.de&gt; wrote: I am new to this list and hope it's the right place to address my issue. I also do not have much insight in libvirt/qemu yet host OS is ubuntu-server 1404. What I am trying to achieve is installing an ubunt1604 server on to an existing (qemu-img create) qcow2 image file with the following command ... sudo virt-install --name myVM --ram 512 \ --disk path=/path/to/image.qcow2 \ --location /path/to/ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso ... and then access the machine (through my hosts terminal). the command above results into Starting install... Retrieving file version.info... | 116 B 00:00 ... Retrieving file linux... | 13 MB 00:00 ... Retrieving file initrd.gz... | 72 MB 00:00 ... Creating domain... | 0 B 00:01 Connected to domain myVM Escape character is ^] after that, nothing.Not having ^ on my keyboard I don't get to escape from this When I check on another console window (virsh list --all) in my host I see that the domain myVM is marked as 'running. naturally There is not way to access it via ssh yet and I'd expect to be a given that is should be possible to acces a VM's command line from my host directly virsh connect qemu:///system myVM is something I came up with but that only returns an error "error: unexpected data 'myVM'" Furthermore I am unable to stop the machine (virsh shutdown myVM) either, it just keeps running until killing it _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users