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6 virt-manager - display the virtual machine desktop management tool
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9 virt-manager [OPTIONS]
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12 virt-manager is a desktop tool for managing virtual machines. It
13 provides the ability to control the lifecycle of existing machines
14 (bootup/shutdown,pause/resume,suspend/restore), provision new virtual
15 machines and various types of store, manage virtual networks, access
16 the graphical console of virtual machines, and view performance
17 statistics, all done locally or remotely.
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20 The following options are accepted when running "virt-manager":
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22 -h, -help
23 Display command line help summary
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25 -c URI, --connect=URI
26 Specify the hypervisor connection URI
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28 --debug
29 List debugging output to the console (normally this is only logged
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33 --no-fork
34 Don't fork "virt-manager" off into the backround: run it blocking
35 the current terminal. Useful for seeing possible errors dumped to
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38 --no-dbus
39 Disable the DBus API used for remote control of the "virt-manager"
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42 --no-conn-autostart
43 Don't autostart any libvirt connections when launching
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46 --show-domain-creator
47 Display the wizard for creating new virtual machines
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49 --show-domain-editor=UUID
50 Display the dialog for editing properties of the virtual machine
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53 --show-domain-performance=UUID
54 Display the dialog for monitoring performance of the virtual
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57 --show-domain-console=UUID
58 Display the virtual console of the virtual machine with unique ID
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61 --show-host-summary
62 Display the main window summarizing performance for all virtual
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66 Written by Daniel P. Berrange.
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69 Please see http://virt-manager.org/page/BugReporting <http://virt-
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73 Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Red Hat, Inc, and various contributors. This
74 is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
75 the GNU General Public License "http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html".
76 There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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80 "http://virt-manager.org"
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