Start And Stop Virtual Machines

General Information

Controlling virtual machines from a KVM host.

Show running and stopped VMs

virsh list --all

Show only running VMs

virsh list

Show Config Info of VM

virsh dominfo server1

Show VM Activity

virt-top

Reboot VM Named “server1

virsh reboot server1

Stop VM Named “server1”

virsh shutdown server1

Start VM Named “server1”

virsh start server1

Stop VM Immediately (“pull power”)

virsh destroy server1

Delete VM Named “server1”

virsh undefine server1

Shutdown

• Applications > System Tools > Virtual Machine Manager
• Right click VM > Shutdown > Shutdown

Start

• Applications > System Tools > Virtual Machine Manager
• Right click VM > Run