virt-viewer

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Minimal graphical interface for a virtual machine (VM). Note: `domain` refers to the name, UUID, or ID for the existing VMs. See also: `virsh`.

Options (3)

-c, --connectboolean

Launch `virt-viewer` with a prompt to select running virtual machines

Example: virt-viewer {{[-c|--connect]}} {{qemu:///system|qemu:///session|...}}

-r, --reconnectboolean

Wait for a virtual machine to start and automatically reconnect if it shuts down and restarts

Example: virt-viewer {{[-c|--connect]}} {{URI}} {{[-r|--reconnect]}} {{[-w|--wait]}} {{domain}}

-w, --waitboolean

Wait for a virtual machine to start and automatically reconnect if it shuts down and restarts

Example: virt-viewer {{[-c|--connect]}} {{URI}} {{[-r|--reconnect]}} {{[-w|--wait]}} {{domain}}

Launch `virt-viewer` with a prompt to select running virtual machines

virt-viewer [-c|--connect] qemu:///system|qemu:///session|...

Launch `virt-viewer` for a specific virtual machine by ID, UUID, or name

virt-viewer [-c|--connect] URI domain

Wait for a virtual machine to start and automatically reconnect if it shuts down and restarts

virt-viewer [-c|--connect] URI [-r|--reconnect] [-w|--wait] domain

Connect to a specific remote virtual machine over TLS (requires pre-configured TLS certificates)

virt-viewer [-c|--connect] qemu+tls://host/system domain

Connect to a specific remote virtual machine over SSH (requires SSH access to the host)

virt-viewer [-c|--connect] xen+ssh://username@host/system domain