On Wed, Nov 13, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
OK. What's <domain>? "virsh list" doesn't list anything, despite the fact that I still have one VM visible in the virt-manager GUI.
Ah. First step then is to make sure you are connecting to the same libvirtd instance as virt-manager is (by default, virsh run as yourself tries to connect to qemu:///session, while virt-manager tries to connect to qemu:///system).
That seems to have been fixed: virsh 1.1.1 (on Ubuntu 13.10) connects to qemu:///system by default. (So, it appears, does virt-manager.) I only have one libvirtd instance, and it's running as root: I presume that is the 'system' instance? Turns out that "virsh list" does not list powered-off VMs. I either have to boot it up or use "virsh list --all". That tells me what I already know: that the *name* of my single VM is "sl6". If I run "virsh edit sl6", then indeed I get an editor full of XML. Progress! Does this mean that "domain" and "name" are the same thing? Anyways, I've updated the wiki page: please check http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Guest_configuration to see if I got it right. Thanks for your help! Greg