Hi, Try to enable vnc on your vm, then try to connect using that protocol and see what happens. You can use chicken of the vnc os x client to connect and be sure your host machine have the right ports open for incoming vnc connections (start at 5900). Best regards, DR Sent from my Atari 800 XL > On 15-11-2021, at 20:13, Yifei Liu <yifeliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear all, > > I used ssh with -X option to connect to an Ubuntu remote server where I applied virsh > (libvirt) to manage my KVM virtual machines, and my local machine is MacOS. Then, > I used virt-install to install a Tiny Core Linux VM, and I got a pop-up Virt Viewer window > (via XQuartz) which is the console for my Tiny Core VM. However, if I rebooted my VM, > then I checked the VM state by virsh list --all which was running. Then, I tried > `virsh console my_vm_domain` but this command got stuck on: >> Connected to domain my_vm_domain >> Escape character is ^] > > The `virsh console` command hung without any response. This issue also happened when > I used virsh console after I shut down and later started the VM. Even the VM was already > started, I cannot return to the VM console by `virsh console`. > > I can get the VM console in Virt Viewer at the first boot (using virt-install). > But, if I shutdown the VM once, I can never access the VM console by virsh console even > the VM state is running. Any idea about how to use virsh console? > > Thanks, > Yifei > >