virsh list

• Man page: https://linux.die.net/man/1/virsh

• virsh list
• virsh list --all
• virsh list --name
• virsh list --no-autostart
• virsh list --with-snapshot
• virsh list --title
• virsh -c qemu:///system list

Examples

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 --with-snapshot
Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------

virsh list
 Id   Name           State
-----------------------------
 2    root_default   paused

virsh list --name
HostedEngineLocal
VM_NAME_2

virsh list --no-autostart

Errors

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

Check: systemctl status libvirtd or start it systemctl start libvirtd

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

Activities

• Dump config for all running machines:

for NAME in `virsh list --name`; do virsh dumpxml $NAME > $NAME.xml; done

Related commands

• virsh vol-list POOL_NAME
• virsh net-list
• virsh reboot
• virsh shutdown or virsh destroy
• virt-list-filesystems
• virsh domdisplay, virsh vncdisplay
• virsh capabilities
• virsh nodedev-list

See also

• virsh: Storage information, Connecting, Operations, Memory, Snapshots, Networking, CPU, release notes, virsh nodedev-list
• virsh Info:virsh list, virsh version, virsh dominfo, virsh pool-info, virsh domstats, virsh vol-info, virsh net-info, virsh dumpxml
• 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