The Misadventures of Penoi

To install with prompt

virt-install --prompt

List virtual machine

virsh list

Stop virtual machine

virsh destroy 

Configure VM autostart

virsh autostart 

Unconfigure VM autostart

virsh autostart --disable 

To install using kickstart

virt-install --name=rhel03.localdomain -r 768 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/rhel03.localdomain.img,size=8 -l http://192.168.122.1/pub/inst -x "ks=http://192.168.122.1/pub/ks/rhel03.cfg"

To create VM snapshot

virsh save centos01 centos01.snap.$(date +%y%m%d)

To restore VM snapshot

virsh shutdown centos01
virsh restore centos01.snap

Clone vm

virt-clone --original centos01 --name centos02 --file /home/penoycentral/images/centos02.img

Troubleshooting KVM

Error when starting the VM snapshot

error restoring domain unable to read from monitor

To fix

virsh managedsave-remove domain-name

Got this error when booting up my Virtual Machine in KVM

error restoring domain unable to read from monitor

To fix and remove the corrupted suspended session:

virsh managedsave-remove domain-name

then restart your VM

 

ref: http://johnpoelstra.com/2011/10/19/resuming-corrupted-suspended-guests/