Virsh --connect

virsh --connect qemu:///system start VM_NAME

virsh --connect qemu+ssh://[email protected]/system list
virsh --connect qemu://system start VM_NAME
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: Cannot read CA certificate '/etc/pki/CA/cacert.pem': No such file or directory

virsh --connect qemu+ssh://USERNAME@SERVER/system  list
USERNAME@SERVER's password:
error: failed to connect to the hypervisor
error: internal error: received hangup event on socket

virsh --connect qemu+ssh://USERNAME@SERVER/system?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock list
USERNAME@SERVER's password:
Id   Name          State
-----------------------------
 1    VM_NAME     running

?socket=/var/run/libvirt/libvirt-sock

Related commands

• virsh console
• virsh start
• virt-install
• virt-manager

See also

• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list