Python script to manage virtual machines with python API for libvirt.

2016-07-04 4 min read Vurtualization

Most of times I use virt-manager to manage VMs but sometimes, I have to manage VMs on other hosts over ssh when connected over VPN or while I am working remotely. GUI like virt-manager thus becomes slow, and hence I like to use cli commands and nothing is better than virsh. But here is simple script that I use sometimes to manage the VMs with CLI based menu. Hope you find it useful. Continue reading

Most simple and fast lightweight container with Fedora systemd

2016-04-15 1 min read Fedora Vurtualization

If you need to have a quick bash shell in sandbox with not network as well, then the most simple command I could find so far is: sudo virt-sandbox -c lxc:/// /bin/bash For this you will need to have libvirt-sandbox installed which you can do with the following command: sudo yum install libvirt-sandbox

virsh – show ip address of all running VMs

2016-02-01 1 min read Fedora Learning Vurtualization

If you are using the libvirt and associated tools, then you must be aware about virt-manager. However this being a GUI tools, it is not possible to always use this. “virsh” is a good option for this. To start with, if you need to know all the VMs all the running VMs, then you can use (to only view the names): virsh list --name Extending this to make it more useful is the case if you need to know the IP address for the running VMs. Continue reading

docker search description truncated

2015-05-05 1 min read Vurtualization

When you search with “docker search”, you would notice that the description of the image is truncated. Sometimes you want to see full description, to do so, you can use –no-trunc option. So, for example you want to search for fedora images, you can use the following command: docker search --no-trunc fedora

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