Virsh list

virsh list
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 1     HostedEngineLocal              running
 2     VM_NAME_2                      in shutdown

virsh list --all
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 4     VM_NAME_1                     running
 5     VM_NAME_2                     in shutdown
 -     VM_NAME_3                     shut off

virsh list --name
HostedEngineLocal
VM_NAME_2

virsh list
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: Failed to connect socket to '/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock': Permission denied

See man page https://linux.die.net/man/1/virsh for complete list of VMs States.

shutdown The domain is in the process of shutting down, i.e. the guest operating system has been notified and should be in the process of stopping its operations gracefully

See also

• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list
• virsh vol-list
• virsh Info:virsh list, virsh version, virsh dominfo, virsh pool-info, virsh domstats, virsh vol-info, virsh net-info, virsh dumpxml
• Virsh/Changing VM running status operations: start, shutdown, destroy, reboot, reset, resume