Re: [libvirt-users] Managing VMs across multiple physical hosts

the libvirt command to see what is running is simply 'virsh list' so if you have a config tool system like puppet/chef/ansible (or even remote ssh commands) you can simply send that command to each node. We use ansible, so a simple on liner would be: ansible all -i virt_list.ini -m command -a 'virsh list' --sudo where the file virt_list.ini is the list of VM hosts. That would output a listing that looks like this host-b2 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >> Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 4 vm34 running 5 vm42 running host-b3 | SUCCESS | rc=0 >> Id Name State ---------------------------------------------------- 3 vm2 running 5 vm12 running 7 vm33 running etc. so you would quickly see whats running where. With a little grep/awk/perl goodness, it would be trivial to pipe that output into a DB table that could searched and constantly updated. The more hardcore ansible guys could make some sort of playbook that would do the above, but the above shows you the way. -bill On 4/24/2016 4:01 PM, Daniel Corbe wrote: