virt-manager - Man Page

• Launch the GUI: virt-manager
• Connect to a hypervisor: virt-manager --connect hypervisor_uri
• Don't fork virt-manager process into background on startup: virt-manager --no-fork
• Print debug output: virt-manager --debug
• Open the "New VM" wizard: virt-manager --show-domain-creator
• Show domain details window for a specific virtual machine/container: virt-manager --show-domain-editor name|id|uuid
• Show domain performance window for a specific virtual machine/container: virt-manager --show-domain-performance name|id|uuid
• Show connection details window: virt-manager --show-host-summary

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virt-manager [Options]

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.

Standard GTK options like --g-fatal-warnings are accepted.

The following options are accepted when running virt-manager

-h,  --help

Display command line help summary

--version

Show virt-manager's version number and exit

-c,  --connect

Specify the hypervisor connection URI

--debug

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

--no-fork

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

For these options, only the requested window will be shown, the manager window will not be run in this case. Connection autostart will also be disabled. All these options require specifying a manual --connect URI.

--show-domain-creator

Display the wizard for creating new virtual machines

--show-domain-editor NAME|ID|UUID

Display the dialog for editing properties of the virtual machine with unique ID matching either the domain name, ID, or UUID

--show-domain-performance NAME|ID|UUID

Display the dialog for monitoring performance of the virtual machine with unique ID matching either the domain name, ID, or UUID

--show-domain-console NAME|ID|UUID

Display the virtual console of the virtual machine with unique ID matching either the domain name, ID, or UUID

--show-host-summary

Display the host/connection details window.

Please see https://virt-manager.org/bugs/

Copyright (C) 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 https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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

guestfs-security(1), virt-clone(1), virt-install(1), virt-v2v-support(1), virt-viewer(1).