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6 virt-manager - Graphical tool for managing libvirt VMs
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9 virt-manager [OPTIONS]
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12 virt-manager is a desktop tool for managing virtual machines. It pro‐
13 vides 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 statis‐
17 tics, all done locally or remotely.
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20 Standard GTK options like --g-fatal-warnings are accepted.
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22 The following options are accepted when running virt-manager
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24 -h, --help
25 Display command line help summary
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27 --version
28 Show virt-manager's version number and exit
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30 -c, --connect
31 Specify the hypervisor connection URI
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33 --debug
34 List debugging output to the console (normally this is only
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38 --no-fork
39 Don't fork virt-manager off into the background: run it blocking
40 the current terminal. Useful for seeing possible errors dumped
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44 For these options, only the requested window will be shown, the manager
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48 --show-domain-creator
49 Display the wizard for creating new virtual machines
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51 --show-domain-editor NAME|ID|UUID
52 Display the dialog for editing properties of the virtual machine
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56 Display the dialog for monitoring performance of the virtual ma‐
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61 Display the virtual console of the virtual machine with unique
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65 Display the host/connection details window.
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71 Copyright (C) Red Hat, Inc, and various contributors. This is free
72 software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU
73 General Public License https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. There is
74 NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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77 virsh(1), virt-viewer(1), the project website https://virt-manager.org
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