<!DOCTYPE html> <html><head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> </head><body> Thanks for your suggestion regarding virt-viewer. But I am on a server without any graphical DesktopIs there a CLI version of virt-viewer (or an equivalent tool CLI [which I though virsh --connect would have been)?Or does virt-viewer run in a CLI mode once you don't have a GUI? <blockquote type="cite">On August 28, 2016 at 9:52 PM Nicolas Bock <nicolasbock@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote>Have you tried to run virt-viewer and then select your VM?On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:50 AM, <vrms@netcologne.de> wrote:<blockquote>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 ...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 intoStarting 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 ^]after that, nothing.Not having ^ on my keyboard I don't get to escape from thisWhen 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 directlyvirsh 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_______________________________________________ libvirt-users mailing list libvirt-users@redhat.com <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvirt-users</a> </blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></body></html>