[libvirt-users] Full documentation for virsh?

[Mathias Tausig]

Am 05.05.2010 22:15, schrieb David Ehle:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know where full documentation for virsh can be found? 

The best that I have found on the web is this one:

http://qemu-buch.de/de/index.php/QEMU-KVM-Buch/_Anhang/_libvirt#virt-install

It is in german, but they have an auto-translate link. Check out if it's
any good for you.

cheers
Mathias

Or if
> the there are any plans to update the man page?
> 
> The man page lists far fewer commands than virsh lists from its
> interactive mode when you type help.
> 
> I noticed this when I was trying to figure out the difference between
> pool-destroy, and pool-delete. The help entries in the virsh shell are
> not very informative:
> virsh # help pool-destroy
>   NAME
>     pool-destroy - destroy a pool
> 
>   SYNOPSIS
>     pool-destroy <pool>
> 
>   DESCRIPTION
>     Destroy a given pool.
> 
>   OPTIONS
>     <pool>           pool name or uuid
> 
> virsh # help pool-delete
>   NAME
>     pool-delete - delete a pool
> 
>   SYNOPSIS
>     pool-delete <pool>
> 
>   DESCRIPTION
>     Delete a given pool.
> 
>   OPTIONS
>     <pool>           pool name or uuid
> 
> ... unless you already know how virsh defines delete vs destroy.
> 
> (anyone care to explain it to me?)
> 
> The word pool does not occur in the virsh man page for Ubuntu Karmic
> release at least.
> 
> Thanks for the great list!
> 
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