kvm virsh command line

kvm virsh command line 


This post covers about command line tools to work with virsh and KVM.

Get KVM version installed on the host machine
virsh version

Get KVM Hypervisor(Host) Memory info
virsh nodememstats


Get KVM Hypervisor CPU info
virsh nodecpustats

To get only running machines in KVM hypervisor
virsh list

Get Hardware information of a KVM guest machine
virsh dominfo BaseMachine


Get guest machine CPU details like how many vCPU’s etc.
virsh vcpucount centos-64

Get guest machine RAM details
virsh dommemstat centos-64


List all networks available for a VM
virsh domiflist centos-64


View VMs XML Configuration
virsh dumpxml vmname

Reference:

http://www.linuxnix.com/2013/02/kvm-get-hypervisor-and-guest-virtual-machine-details.html

http://blog.allanglesit.com/2011/03/kvm-guests-manipulating-libvirt-xml-for-guest-creation/

More indepth use of virsh shall be obtained from here

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2015/02/add-memory-cpu-disk-to-kvm-vm/