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