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://myu...@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://myu...@myhost/system domuuid myGuest`
# Now we launch virt-manager, automatically connecting to the guest's
# display
virt-manager -c qemu+ssh://myu...@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.
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