libvirt users - Mar 2011 - Connecting to Standalone KVM

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.

Patrick
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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.