virt-manager (1) - Linux Manuals
virt-manager: display the virtual machine desktop management tool
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
- --version
- Show virt-manager's version number and exit
- -c URI
- --connect=URI
- 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.
- --no-conn-autostart
- Don't autostart any libvirt connections when launching "virt-manager".
- --show-DIALOG-WINDOW
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Display the corresponding "DIALOG-WINDOW" when launching "virt-manager". This
function implies --no-conn-autostart and the manager window will not be shown
at startup in this case.
The following "DIALOG-WINDOW" options are currently available:
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- --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 main window summarizing performance for all virtual machines on the host.
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- --spice-disable-auto-usbredir
- Auto USB redirection is supported by default. This option switches off it.
Standard GTK options like --g-fatal-warnings are also accepted.