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KVM Command Line

“virsh” shell for KVM.

List All Domain on KVM

virsh list --all

Define or use .xml

virsh define <xyz.xml>

Start KVM

virsh start <xyz>

Edit Guest .xml

virsh edit xyz

List VNC Information

virsh vncdisplay xyz

Domain Format in KVM

Test your bootable USB on kvm

In order to test your USB using KVM use following command.

qemu-kvm -hdb <device> 

In my case device was “/dev/sdb”.

Converting Existing Image

Converting VMWARE image for KVM

use following command.

qemu-img convert own_Cloud.vmdk -O qcow2 ownCloud.qcow

Converting .ova to KVM image

what is ova - Open Virtualization Format

Download - Open Virtualization Format Tool

Install it, which give you command “ovftool”.

ovftool -tt=vmx Amazon-EC2-VM-Import-Connector.ova amazon_kvm

converting .ova is just easy
some times ovftool failing

<span style="color:red;font-size:150%;">If Above does not work just do</span> <p><span style="color:red;font-size:150%;"> tar -xvf Amazon-EC2-VM-Import-Connector.ova </span></p>

Now follow Converting VMWARE image for KVM

Create New KVM Guest using existing Image

virt-install --name=own_cloud --arch=x86_64 \
--vcpus=1 --ram=512 --os-type=linux --os-variant=sles11 \
--hvm --connect=qemu:///system --network bridge:br0 \
--import --disk path=/home/vmware/ownCloud_in_a_box-1.0.4/ownCloud.qcow \
--accelerate --vnc --noautoconsole --keymap=us

Backup

Creating snapshot of Machine

NOTE :
- This will turn off your Guest.
- it will create snapshot in current working directory.
- Use `virsh pwd` to check your current working directory.

virsh save <Domain Name> <fileName>

Quick Command Ref.

help	 Prints basic help information.
list	 Lists all guests.
dumpxml	 Outputs the XML configuration file for the guest.
create	 Creates a guest from an XML configuration file and starts the new guest.
start	 Starts an inactive guest.
destroy	 Forces a guest to stop.
define	 Outputs an XML configuration file for a guest.
domid	 Displays the guest's ID.
domuuid	 Displays the guest's UUID.
dominfo	 Displays guest information.
domname	 Displays the guest's name.
domstate	 Displays the state of a guest.
quit	 Quits the interactive terminal.
reboot	 Reboots a guest.
restore	 Restores a previously saved guest stored in a file.
resume	 Resumes a paused guest.
save	 Save the present state of a guest to a file.
shutdown	 Gracefully shuts down a guest.
suspend	 Pauses a guest.
undefine	 Deletes all files associated with a guest.
migrate	 Migrates a guest to another host.
setmem	 Sets the allocated memory for a guest.
setmaxmem	 Sets maximum memory limit for the hypervisor.
setvcpus	 Changes number of virtual CPUs assigned to a guest.
vcpuinfo	 Displays virtual CPU information about a guest.
vcpupin	 Controls the virtual CPU affinity of a guest.
domblkstat	 Displays block device statistics for a running guest.
domifstat	 Displays network interface statistics for a running guest.
attach-device	 Attach a device to a guest, using a device definition in an XML file.
attach-disk	 Attaches a new disk device to a guest.
attach-interface	 Attaches a new network interface to a guest.
detach-device	 Detach a device from a guest, takes the same kind of XML descriptions as command attach-device.
detach-disk	 Detach a disk device from a guest.
detach-interface	 Detach a network interface from a guest.

FU Commands

Create Disk

create disk of size 10G

| for dynamic allocation
qemu-img create -f raw vdisk.img 10G 

OR

| preallowcation
dd if=/dev/zero of=vdisk.img bs=1G count=0 seek=[NUMBER_OF_GB]

How to allow network access to KVM Guest

Modify guest.xml file and listen variable.

| vi /etc/libvirt/qemu/Archlinux.xml
<graphics type='vnc' port='-1' autoport='yes' listen='192.168.1.4' passwd='testing1'/>

Extract folder from KVM Guest Image

This appears to be the far easy solution than I thought.
Link to official Document

For RHEL you require the following packages installed.

  • libguestfs-tools
  • libguestfs-xfs # if guest filesystem is XFS.
mkdir test
virt-copy-out -a machine2.qcow2 /metadata/testing/users test/

Image File explorer

This is a simple way to extract or access files.
Scan and assign the dev node.

losetup --partscan --find --show sdcard.img

List all the block devices, including newly scanned.

lsblk --fs

Mounting the file system

mount /dev/loop0p2 /mnt/sdcard

Once unmounted remove the lo drive.

losetup --detach-all
command_line.txt · Last modified: 2021/08/24 21:11 by k2patel