NAME¶

virt-manager - display the virtual machine desktop management tool

SYNOPSIS¶

virt-manager [OPTIONS]

DESCRIPTION¶

virt-manager is a desktop tool for managing virtual machines. It provides the ability to control the lifecycle of existing machines (bootup/shutdown,pause/resume,suspend/restore), provision new virtual machines and various types of store, manage virtual networks, access the graphical console of virtual machines, and view performance statistics, all done locally or remotely.

OPTIONS¶

The following options are accepted when running "virt-manager":

-h, -help

Display command line help summary

-c URI, --connect=URI

Specify the hypervisor connection URI

--debug

List debugging output to the console (normally this is only logged in ~/.virt-manager/virt-manager.log). This function implies --no-fork.

--no-fork

Don't fork "virt-manager" off into the backround: run it blocking the current terminal. Useful for seeing possible errors dumped to stdout/stderr.

--no-dbus

Disable the DBus API used for remote control of the "virt-manager" UI

--no-conn-autostart

Don't autostart any libvirt connections when launching "virt-manager".

--show-domain-creator

Display the wizard for creating new virtual machines

--show-domain-editor=UUID

Display the dialog for editing properties of the virtual machine with unique ID matching "UUID"

--show-domain-performance=UUID

Display the dialog for monitoring performance of the virtual machine with unique ID matching "UUID"

--show-domain-console=UUID

Display the virtual console of the virtual machine with unique ID matching "UUID"

--show-host-summary

Display the main window summarizing performance for all virtual machines on the host.

--spice-disable-auto-usbredir Auto USB redirection is supportted by default. This option switches off it.

AUTHOR¶

Written by Daniel P. Berrange.

BUGS¶

Please see <http://virt-manager.org/page/BugReporting>

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Red Hat, Inc, and various contributors. This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO¶

virsh(1), "virt-viewer(1)", the project website "http://virt-manager.org"