virt-viewer

Langue: en

Version: 2010-01-15 (ubuntu - 24/10/10)

Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)

NAME

virt-viewer - display the graphical console for a virtual machine

SYNOPSIS

virt-viewer [OPTIONS] DOMAIN-NAME|ID|UUID

DESCRIPTION

virt-viewer is a minimal tool for displaying the graphical console of a virtual machine. The console is accessed using the VNC protocol. The guest can be referred to based on its name, ID, or UUID. If the guest is not already running, then the viewer can be told to wait until is starts before attempting to connect to the console The viewer can connect to remote hosts to lookup the console information and then also connect to the remote console using the same network transport.

OPTIONS

The following options are accepted when running "virt-viewer":
-h, --help
Display command line help summary
-V, --version
Display program version number
-v, --verbose
Display information about the connection
-c URI, --connect=URI
Specify the hypervisor connection URI
-w, --wait
Wait for the domain to start up before attempting to connect to the console
-w, --reconnect
Automatically reconnect to the domain if it shuts down and restarts
-d, --direct
Do not attempt to tunnel the console over SSH, even if the main connection URI used SSH.

EXAMPLES

To connect to the guest called 'demo' running under Xen
    virt-viewer demo
 
 

To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU

    virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7
 
 

To wait for the guest with UUID 66ab33c0-6919-a3f7-e659-16c82d248521 to startup and then connect, also reconnecting upon restart of VM

    virt-viewer --reconnect --wait 66ab33c0-6919-a3f7-e659-16c82d248521
 
 

To connect to a remote console using TLS

    virt-viewer --connect xen://example.org/ demo
 
 

To connect to a remote host using SSH, lookup the guest config and then make a direct non-tunnelled connection of the console

    virt-viewer --direct --connect xen+ssh://root@example.org/ demo
 
 

AUTHOR

Written by Daniel P. Berrange, based on the GTK-VNC example program gvncviewer.

BUGS

Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools" Copyright (C) 2007-2008 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 "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

virsh(1), "virt-manager(1)", the project website "http://virt-manager.org"