Operating KVM VM

• Start VM: virsh start VM_MACHINE_NAME
• Shutdown VM: virsh shutdown (stop) Gracefully VM
• Reboot VM: virsh reboot Restart VM
• Reset VM:virsh reset emulates the power reset button on a machine
• Resume VM:virsh resume
• Destroy VM: virsh destroy VM_NAME (Ungraceful Shutdown/stop VM. Actually do not destroy data or VM but you can corrupt guest file systems)
  • virsh destroy VM_MACHINE_NAME --graceful
• virsh suspend
• Create: virsh define
• virsh undefine

Connectivity commands

• virsh console

See also

• KVM, Installation, QEMU, virsh, virtinst, libguestfs-tools, libvirt, qemu, Red Hat Virtualization (RHV), MacVTap, Virtio, oVirt, KVM services, KVM networking, KVM graphics, CPU, KVM on ARM
• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list
• Changing VM running status operations: start, shutdown, destroy, reboot, reset, resume