You can install virt-manager and virt-viewer on the KVM server, and access both GUIs from your laptop through ssh X11 forwarding ssh to the KVM server with the -X switch ssh root@server -X now you can run virt-viewer VM or virt-manager Wait a few seconds and the GUIs will appear on your laptop's screen. It's slower of course but works from any place that can access the KVM server (without the need to install a desktop environment there) Hope this helps, Markos On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:24 AM, <gunnar.wagner@netcologne.de> wrote:

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@gmail.com> wrote:

Have you tried to run virt-viewer and then select your VM?

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:50 AM, <vrms@netcologne.de> 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

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You can also get de virt-viewer windows client. So you connect to the guest from a windows desktop… Van: libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com [mailto:libvirt-users-bounces@redhat.com] Namens gunnar.wagner@netcologne.de Verzonden: maandag 29 augustus 2016 7:25 Aan: libvirt-users@redhat.com Onderwerp: [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@gmail.com<mailto:nicolasbock@gmail.com>> wrote: Have you tried to run virt-viewer and then select your VM? On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:50 AM, <vrms@netcologne.de<mailto:vrms@netcologne.de>> 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@redhat.com<mailto:libvirt-users@redhat.com> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users