Virsh console

First you need to enable serial console in your VM Machine.

• sudo systemctl enable [email protected]
• sudo systemctl start [email protected]

• virsh console MACHINE

virsh console MACHINE_NAME
Connected to domain MACHINE_NAME
Escape character is ^]
error: operation failed: Active console session exists for this domain

To kill old console:

ps -ef | grep console
kill -9 {PID}

virsh console
error: command 'console' requires <domain> option

Related commands

• virsh list
• virsh start
• virsh --connect
• virsh domdisplay VM_NAME
• virsh vncdisplay VM_NAME
• /var/log/libvirt/qemu/
• virsh ttyconsole

See also

• Conneting: virsh [ console | ttyconsole | domdisplay | vncdisplay ], virsh --connect, virt-manager, virt-viewer, VNC
• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list

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