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libvirt is an API and toolkit for developing applications which manage virtual machine hypervisors, the virtual machines running under them, and virtual machine storage.

libvirt is an API and toolkit for developing applications which manage virtual machine hypervisors, the virtual machines running under them, and virtual machine storage.

libvirt runs on Linux, Solaris and Windows.

libvirt supports the following hypervisors: KVM/QEMU, Hyper-V, VMware, Xen, VirtualBox, OpenVZ, LXC, User Mode Linux, and others.

libvirt suports the following storage: local file images, raw disk storage, LVM, FibreChannel, iSCSI, NFS.

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KVM/libvirt: How to configure static guest IP addresses on the virtualisation host

What I'd like to do is to set the guests' network configuration (IP address, subnet, gateway, broadcast address) from the host system. The used network setup is in bridge mode. How can I configure the network from the host rather than configuring…
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Forwarding ports to guests in libvirt / KVM

How can I forward ports on a server running libvirt/KVM to specified ports on VM's, when using NAT? For example, the host has a public IP of 1.2.3.4. I want to forward port 80 to 10.0.0.1 and port 22 to 10.0.0.2. I assume I need to add iptables…
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how to rename a VM using libvirt+KVM

How can I rename a VM on KVM+libvirt? I would like it to change the name in the 'inventory' as well as change the name of the storage etc.
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How do I make a persistent domain with virsh?

virsh create somefile.xml creates my machine just fine but when I shut the machine down the whole thing disappears. Machines I made with the virt-manager GUI are persistent (stick around after shutdown) and the xml file is derived from those…
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KVM and Libvirt - How do I hotplug a new virtio disk?

I am trying to hot-add a file-based disk to a running KVM virtual server. I've created a new disk from scratch using the command dd of=/home/cloud/vps_59/test.img bs=1 seek=5G count=0 and I was hoping to get it hot-added to the guest by doing this…
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how to delete a guest after creating it with virt-install

I created a KVM guest from the command line with virt-install where I used the command line options --disk pool=vg0,size=20 and --name virt1.example.com. How can I delete this KVM guest from the command line? I don't need it anymore. Just for the…
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How to change the default Storage Pool from libvirt?

I'm trying to use a different Storage Pool on KVM in order to store the virtual disks of my VMs and also the ISOs from the operating systems which I'm using. For example: I want to use the directory /media/work/kvm which is mounted over /dev/sda5,…
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How to keep time on resumed KVM guest with libvirt?

On my host I am using libvirt and a KVM guest. When the host is shutting down, libvirt suspends the guest. When the host is starting up, libvirt resumes the guest. The problem is, if the guest is suspended and resumed after 24 hours for example,…
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libvirt: how can I make a domain start when the host starts?

I would like some of my domains to start automatically when my host starts (I'm using libvirt+KVM on ubuntu). I guess I could put some "virsh start..." statements in rc.local, but is there a way to configure this within libvirt/virsh?
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Read/write access for passthrough (9p) filesystems with libvirt/qemu?

I have recently started experimenting with the support for passthrough filesystems in recent versions of KVM/QEMU/libvirt. Making the filesystems available for read access has "just worked", but I'm a little puzzled about how write access is…
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virsh: VM console does not show any output

I have a VM which I can start with virsh. According to virsh dumpxml VM1, this is the allocated pty: …
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Web based KVM management for Ubuntu

We've got a single Ubuntu 9.10 root server on which we want to run multiple KVM virtual machines. To administer these virtual machines I'd like a web based KVM management tool, but I don't know which one to choose from the list of tools mentioned on…
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libvirt network error - no 'default' network device found

My original purpose is to create centos image for openstack. Although I did directly with kvm, still wondering about error. Was using this manual for my task. After this command: # virt-install --virt-type kvm --name centos-6.4 --ram 1024…
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Port Forwarding from Host to Guest with libvirt 0.8.3 Using KVM on Ubuntu

The host has a single external IP available, so I set my KVM guests up with NAT. How do I set up a port forwarding to forward some of the requests from the outside to the guests? I couldn't find any documentation on this. The closest answer is…
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Get list of DHCP clients with KVM+libvirt?

I have several VMs running on Ubuntu 9.10 via KVM+libvirt. I want to be able to find out the IP address that has been assigned to each host without physically opening a physical "console" to each machine and invoking…
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