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Daniel
Asked: 2012-01-25 13:48:34 +0800 CST

Managing a QEMU guest from the host's CLI

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Can I manage a QEMU guest from the host's CLI? I'm coming from Xen and I liked the xm command. I'd like to shutdown the guest, attach PCI devices to it and so on. Is there a way?

There's the QEMU monitor, but I'd really like to have a "scriptable" solution.

virtualization linux kvm-virtualization qemu

2 Answers

  1. Qemu's QMP is probably what you're looking for, but I am not aware of any tools that interface with it yet. You would have to write a script (or family of scripts) that opens the socket and sends appropriate messages to QEMU.

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  2. any VM management solution out there is based on libvirt nowadays, so virsh is the way to go. You don't have to install virt-manager, which drags along a lot of GUI deps

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