VIRT-VIEWER(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation VIRT-VIEWER(1)
NAME
virt-viewer - display the graphical console for a virtual machine
SYNOPSIS
virt-viewer [OPTIONS] DOMAIN-NAME│ID│UUID
DESCRIPTION
virt-viewer is a minimal tool for displaying the graphical console of a
virtual machine. The console is accessed using the VNC 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 con-
nect 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
-d, --direct
Do not attempt to tunnel the console over SSH, even if the main
connection URI used SSH.
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
virt-viewer --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 --connect xen+ssh://root@example.org/ demo
AUTHOR
Writen by Daniel P. Berrange, based on the GTK-VNC example program
gvncviewer.
BUGS
Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mail-
man/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools"
COPYRIGHT
Copright (C) 2007 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 ALSO
virsh(1), "virt-manager(1)", the project website "http://virt-man-
ager.org"
perl v5.8.8 2007-08-28 VIRT-VIEWER(1)
