kvm notes

CLI

show all VMs

virsh list --all
Id   Name       State
--------------------------
4    myVM   running

xml location

/etc/libvirt/qemu/

snapshots

create new snapshot

virsh snapshot-create-as --domain myVMname --name "2021-11-15_snapshot_myVMname" --description "snapshot before windows update"

show shapshots

virsh snapshot-list myVMname
Name                           Creation Time               State

---

2021-11-15_snapshot_myVMname   2021-11-15 06:27:57 -0600   running

ENABLING HOST-GUEST NETWORKING