VIRT-VIEWER(1)
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
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"