VIRT-VIEWER(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation VIRT-VIEWER(1)NAMEvirt-viewer - display the graphical console for a virtual machine
SYNOPSISvirt-viewer [OPTIONS] DOMAIN-NAME|ID|UUID
DESCRIPTIONvirt-viewer is a minimal tool for displaying the graphical console of a
virtual machine. The console is accessed using the VNC or SPICE
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
-r, --reconnect
Automatically reconnect to the domain if it shuts down and restarts
-z PCT, --zoom=PCT
Zoom level of the display window in percentage. Range 10-200.
-d, --direct
Do not attempt to tunnel the console over SSH, even if the main
connection URI used SSH.
-a, --attach
Use libvirt to directly attach to a local display, instead of
making a TCP/UNIX socket connection. This avoids the need to
authentication with the remote display, if authentication with
libvirt is already allowed. This option does not work with remote
displays.
-f, --full-screen
Start with the window maximised to fullscreen
--debug
Print debugging information
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/virt-tools-list"
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 ALSOvirsh(1), "virt-manager(1)", the project website
"http://virt-manager.org"
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