Libvirt Tips and Tricks

Intro

Libvirt provides a common API and daemon to interact with various hypervisors and virtualization technologies, including KVM, QEMU, Xen, LXC, etc..

This post is just a collection of helpful tips and tricks that I common use with my libvirt workflows. This post will be updated periodically with new and exciting propaganda.

Virtual Machines

List all VMs.

virsh list --all

Get the `XML` for a VM.

virsh dumpxml <vm-name>

Networks

List all networks.

virsh net-list --all

Get the `XML` for a network

virsh net-dumpxml <network-name>

DHCP

List the DHCP leases for a network.

virsh net-dhcp-leases <network-name>

Outro

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