<!DOCTYPE html> <html><head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> </head><body>I am new to this list and hope it's the right place to address my issue. I also do not have much insight in libvirt/qemu yethost OS is ubuntu-server 1404. What I am trying to achieve is installing an ubunt1604 server on to an existing (qemu-img create) qcow2 image file with the following command ... <pre style=""> sudo virt-install --name myVM --ram 512 \ --disk path=/path/to/image.qcow2 \ --location /path/to/ubuntu-16.04.1-server-amd64.iso ... and then access the machine (through my hosts terminal). the command above results into Starting install... Retrieving file version.info... | 116 B 00:00 ... Retrieving file linux... | 13 MB 00:00 ... Retrieving file initrd.gz... | 72 MB 00:00 ... Creating domain... | 0 B 00:01 Connected to domain myVM Escape character is ^] </pre> after that, nothing.Not having ^ on my keyboard I don't get to escape from this When I check on another console window (virsh list --all) in my host I see that the domain myVM is marked as 'running. naturally There is not way to access it via ssh yet and I'd expect to be a given that is should be possible to acces a VM's command line from my host directly virsh connect qemu:///system myVM is something I came up with but that only returns an error "error: unexpected data 'myVM'" Furthermore I am unable to stop the machine (virsh shutdown myVM) either, it just keeps running until killing it </body></html>