How to Manage KVM Virtual Environment using Commandline Tools in Linux

In this 4th part of our KVM series, we are discussing KVM environment management using CLI. We use ‘virt-install’ CL tool to create and configure virtual machines, virsh CL tool to create and configure storage pools and qemu-img CL tool to create and manage disk images.

KVM Management in Linux

There is nothing new concepts in this article, we just do the previous tasks using command line tools. There is no new prerequisite, just the same procedure, we have discussed in previous parts.

Step 1: Configure Storage Pool

Virsh CLI tool is a management user interface for managing virsh guest domains. The virsh program can be used either to run one command by giving the command and its arguments on the shell command line.

In this section, we will use it to create storage pool for our KVM environment. For more information about the tool, use the following command.

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