NAME
virt-manager - Graphical tool for managing libvirt VMs
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
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.
DIALOG WINDOW OPTIONS
For these
options, only the requested window will be shown, the manaer
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.
BUGS
Please see https://virt-manager.org/bugs/
COPYRIGHT
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.
SEE ALSO
virsh(1), virt-viewer(1), the project website https://virt-manager.org