12:47 p.m.
Hi,
Can virsh be used to connect to a standalone KVM? I.e. I started a KVM from the command
line, and I wondered how to connect to it. Virsh list shows no VMs. Thanks.
Patrick
1:10 p.m.
On 03/04/2011 01:47 PM, Markiewicz, Patrick F (N-No Laurels) wrote:
Hi,
Can virsh be used to connect to a standalone KVM? I.e. I started a
KVM from the command line, and I wondered how to connect to it. Virsh
list shows no VMs. Thanks.
No. libvirt (and consequently virsh) only knows about guests that were
defined/created/started via the libvirt API.
There is a virsh command to help you convert from your hand-written qemu
commandline to a libvirt domain XML - "virsh domxml-from-native". You'll
still have quite a bit of work left when it's done, but it's a start. If
your concern is having access to qemu's monitor interface, virsh in
newer versions of libvirt has the command "virsh qemu-monitor-command",
which is 100% unsupported, but available.
1:42 p.m.
New subject: [libvirt-users] EXTERNAL: Re: Connecting to Standalone KVM
Thanks. Strange, after all the keywords I searched for today, after your email I looked
up 'kvm-qemu config' and found exactly the explanation I needed here:
"Converting from QEMU args to domain XML" http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html
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Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: [libvirt-users] Connecting to Standalone KVM
On 03/04/2011 01:47 PM, Markiewicz, Patrick F (N-No Laurels) wrote:
Hi,
Can virsh be used to connect to a standalone KVM? I.e. I started a
KVM from the command line, and I wondered how to connect to it. Virsh
list shows no VMs. Thanks.
No. libvirt (and consequently virsh) only knows about guests that were
defined/created/started via the libvirt API.
There is a virsh command to help you convert from your hand-written qemu
commandline to a libvirt domain XML - "virsh domxml-from-native". You'll
still have quite a bit of work left when it's done, but it's a start. If
your concern is having access to qemu's monitor interface, virsh in
newer versions of libvirt has the command "virsh qemu-monitor-command",
which is 100% unsupported, but available.
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