virt-viewer(1) - Linux man page

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 or
SPICE 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 connect 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

-r, --reconnect

Automatically reconnect to the domain if it shuts down and restarts

-z PCT , --zoom=PCT

Zoom level of the display window in percentage. Range 10-200.

-d, --direct

Do not attempt to tunnel the console over SSH , even if the main connection URI used SSH .

-a, --attach

Use libvirt to directly attach to a local display, instead of making a TCP/UNIX socket connection. This avoids the need to authentication
with the remote display, if authentication with libvirt is already allowed. This option does not work with remote displays.

-f, --full-screen

Start with the window maximised to fullscreen

--debug

Print debugging information

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, also reconnecting upon restart of
VM

virt-viewer --reconnect --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 --direct --connect xen+ssh://[e-mail]/ demo

Author

Written by Daniel P. Berrange, based on the GTK-VNC example program gvncviewer.

Bugs

Report bugs to the mailing list "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list"

Copyright

Copyright ? 2007-2008 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-manager.org"

Referenced By

remote-viewer(1),
virt-install(1)