Thanks. Strange, after all the keywords I searched for today, after your email I looked up 'kvm-qemu config' and found exactly the explanation I needed here: "Converting from QEMU args to domain XML" http://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html -----Original Message----- From: libvirt-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:libvirt-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Laine Stump Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 2:11 PM To: libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Connecting to Standalone KVM On 03/04/2011 01:47 PM, Markiewicz, Patrick F (N-No Laurels) wrote: > > Hi, > > Can virsh be used to connect to a standalone KVM? I.e. I started a > KVM from the command line, and I wondered how to connect to it. Virsh > list shows no VMs. Thanks. > No. libvirt (and consequently virsh) only knows about guests that were defined/created/started via the libvirt API. There is a virsh command to help you convert from your hand-written qemu commandline to a libvirt domain XML - "virsh domxml-from-native". You'll still have quite a bit of work left when it's done, but it's a start. If your concern is having access to qemu's monitor interface, virsh in newer versions of libvirt has the command "virsh qemu-monitor-command", which is 100% unsupported, but available. _______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users
