From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDcPe-0001ee-Km for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:58:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDcPd-0005wQ-Uf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:58:14 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f173.google.com ([209.85.161.173]:57325) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QDcPd-0005wM-Oo for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:58:13 -0400 Received: by gxk26 with SMTP id 26so399021gxk.4 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2011 05:58:12 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2011 13:58:12 +0100 Message-ID: From: Stefan Hajnoczi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Is there any qemu-monitor commands like "virsh list" ? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Ryan Wang Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Ryan Wang wrote: > I'm a newbie to qemu/kvm and reading some docs on them. > I've learned some 'virsh' commands. Now I want to know is > there any qemu-monitor commands like 'virsh list'? > > Or if I want to list current VMs on my host, I have to use the > virsh commands, and cannot use some qemu commands? qemu and qemu-kvm are local, they only know about the single VM they are running. The management tool (libvirt and virt-tools) knows about all the VMs that are running on a host. Without libvirt you can just us ps(1) to see which qemu processes are running on the host. Stefan