10.3. Starting a virtual machine using the command-line interface

Conditions préalables

• An inactive VM that is already defined.
• The name of the VM.

• For remote VMs:

  • The IP address of the host where the VM is located.
  • Root access privileges to the host.

Procédure

• For a local VM, use the virsh start utility.

  For example, the following command starts the demo-guest1 VM.

  # virsh start demo-guest1
  Domain 'demo-guest1' started

• For a VM located on a remote host, use the virsh start utility along with the QEMU+SSH connection to the host.

  For example, the following command starts the demo-guest1 VM on the 192.168.123.123 host.

  # virsh -c qemu+ssh://root@192.168.123.123/system start demo-guest1
  
  root@192.168.123.123's password:
  
  Domain 'demo-guest1' started