24.1 The virsh Shell and Command-Line
The virsh tool is both a command-line tool and an interactive shell environment. When used in the command-line mode, the command is simply issued at the command prompt with sets of arguments appropriate to the task to be performed.
To use the options as command-line arguments, use them at a terminal command prompt as shown in the following example:
# virsh <option>
The virsh tool, when used in shell mode, provides an interactive environment from which to issue sequences of commands.
To run commands in the virsh shell, run the following command:
# virsh
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.
Type: ‘help’ for help with commands
‘quit’ to quit
virsh #
At the virsh # prompt enter the options you wish to run. The following virsh session, for example, lists the current virtual machines, starts a virtual...
