[virt-tools-list] virt-manager shortcut to boot guest os

[Grant Williamson]

  Thanks, just what I needed.


On 09/17/2010 03:16 PM, Justin Clift wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 05:28 PM, Grant Williamson wrote:
>> Hi,
>> is there way to use virt-manager to open & power on a guest OS from say
>> a desktop link.
>>
>> i.e.
>> virt-manager boot "name"
>
> Hi Grant,
>
> "Kind of". :)
>
> It depends upon what you want to do.  "virt-manager" doesn't seem to have all of the right command line options itself, but you can probably get 
> what you want through simple shell scripting.
>
> For example, lets say I have a guest called "myGuest", on a remote host called "myHost".
>
> With a simple script, you can use "virsh" to start the guest, then launch your desired viewing program to connect to it.
>
>   Example: launch_myGuest.sh
>   (NOTE: Complete lack of error checking for simplicity. :>)
>
>   #!/bin/bash
>
>   # Connect to the remote host using SSH, then launch the guest
>   virsh -c qemu+ssh://myuser@myHost/system start myGuest
>
>   # virt-manager needs to be given a domain's unique ID number
>   # (UUID), so we retrieve that info first
>   UUID=`virsh -c qemu+ssh://myuser@myHost/system domuuid myGuest`
>
>   # Now we launch virt-manager, automatically connecting to the guest's
>   # display
>   virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://myuser@myHost/system \
>                --show-domain-console=${UUID}
>
> Does that help?
>
> (btw, that would ask for the SSH password for each command being run above, so setting up ssh keys would be useful... no password promping!)
>
> :)
>
> Regards and best wishes,
>
> Justin Clift
>
>> thanks.
>
>