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NAME
       virt-admin - daemon administration interface

SYNOPSIS
       virt-admin [OPTION]... [COMMAND_STRING]

       virt-admin [OPTION]... COMMAND [ARG]...

DESCRIPTION
       The virt-admin program is the main administration interface for
       modifying the libvirt daemon configuration at runtime, changing daemon
       behaviour as well as for monitoring and managing all clients connected
       to the daemon.

       The basic structure of most virt-admin usage is:

	 virt-admin [OPTION]... <command> [ARG]...

       Where command is one of the commands listed below.

       The virt-admin program can be used either to run one COMMAND by giving
       the command and its arguments on the shell command line, or a
       COMMAND_STRING which is a single shell argument consisting of multiple
       COMMAND actions and their arguments joined with whitespace, and
       separated by semicolons between commands.  Within COMMAND_STRING, virt-
       admin understands the same single, double, and backslash escapes as the
       shell, although you must add another layer of shell escaping in
       creating the single shell argument.  If no command is given in the
       command line, virt-admin will then start a minimal interpreter waiting
       for your commands, and the quit command will then exit the program.

       The virt-admin program understands the following OPTIONS.

       -c, --connect URI
	   Connect to the specified URI, as if by the connect command, instead
	   of the default connection.

       -d, --debug LEVEL
	   Enable debug messages at integer LEVEL and above.  LEVEL can range
	   from 0 to 4 (default).  See the documentation of VIRT_ADMIN_DEBUG
	   environment variable below for the description of each LEVEL.

       -h, --help
	   Ignore all other arguments, and behave as if the help command were
	   given instead.

       -l, --log FILE
	   Output logging details to FILE.

       -q, --quiet
	   Avoid extra informational messages.

       -v, --version[=short]
	   Ignore all other arguments, and prints the version of the libvirt
	   library virt-admin is coming from

       -V, --version=long
	   Ignore all other arguments, and prints the version of the libvirt
	   library virt-admin is coming from.

NOTES
       Running virt-admin requires root privileges due to the communications
       channels used to talk to the daemon. Consider changing the
       unix_sock_group ownership setting to grant access to specific set of
       users or modifying unix_sock_rw_perms permissions. Daemon configuration
       file provides more information about setting permissions.

GENERIC COMMANDS
       The following commands are generic.

       help [command-or-group]
	   This lists each of the virt-admin commands.	When used without
	   options, all commands are listed, one per line, grouped into
	   related categories, displaying the keyword for each group.

	   To display detailed information for a specific command, use its
	   name as the option.

       quit, exit
	   quit this interactive terminal

       version
	   Will print out the version info about which libvirt library was
	   this client built from. As opposed to virsh client, the output
	   already includes the version of the daemon.

	   Example

	    $ virt-admin version
	    Compiled against library: libvirt 1.2.21
	    Using library: libvirt 1.2.21
	    Running against daemon: 1.2.20

       cd [directory]
	   Will change current directory to directory.	The default directory
	   for the cd command is the home directory or, if there is no HOME
	   variable in the environment, the root directory.

	   This command is only available in interactive mode.

       pwd Will print the current directory.

       connect [URI]
	   (Re)-Connect to a daemon's administrating server. The URI parameter
	   specifies how to connect to the administrating server.  If
	   LIBVIRT_ADMIN_DEFAULT_URI or admin_uri_default (see below) were
	   set, connect is automatically issued every time a command that
	   requires an active connection is executed. Note that this only
	   applies if there is no connection at all or there is an inactive
	   one.

	   To find the currently used URI, check the uri command documented
	   below.

	   For remote access see the documentation page at
	   <http://libvirt.org/uri.html> on how to make URIs.

       uri Prints the administrating server canonical URI, can be useful in
	   shell mode. If no uri was specified, neither
	   LIBVIRT_ADMIN_DEFAULT_URI or admin_uri_default were set,
	   libvirtd:///system is used.

ENVIRONMENT
       The following environment variables can be set to alter the behaviour
       of "virt-admin"

       VIRT_ADMIN_DEBUG=<0 to 4>
	   Turn on verbose debugging of virt-admin commands. Valid levels are

	   o   VIRT_ADMIN_DEBUG=0

	       DEBUG - Messages at ALL levels get logged

	   o   VIRT_ADMIN_DEBUG=1

	       INFO - Logs messages at levels INFO, NOTICE, WARNING and ERROR

	   o   VIRT_ADMIN_DEBUG=2

	       NOTICE - Logs messages at levels NOTICE, WARNING and ERROR

	   o   VIRT_ADMIN_DEBUG=3

	       WARNING - Logs messages at levels WARNING and ERROR

	   o   VIRT_ADMIN_DEBUG=4

	       ERROR - Messages at only ERROR level gets logged.

       VIRT_ADMIN_LOG_FILE="LOGFILE"
	   The file to log virt-admin debug messages.

       LIBVIRT_ADMIN_DEFAULT_URI
	   The daemon whose admin server to connect to by default. Set this to
	   a URI, in the same format as accepted by the connect option. This
	   overrides the default URI set in any client config file.

       VIRT_ADMIN_HISTSIZE
	   The number of commands to remember in the command  history.	The
	   default value is 500.

       LIBVIRT_DEBUG=LEVEL
	   Turn on verbose debugging of all libvirt API calls. Valid levels
	   are

	   o   LIBVIRT_DEBUG=1

	       Messages at level DEBUG or above

	   o   LIBVIRT_DEBUG=2

	       Messages at level INFO or above

	   o   LIBVIRT_DEBUG=3

	       Messages at level WARNING or above

	   o   LIBVIRT_DEBUG=4

	       Messages at level ERROR or above

	   For further information about debugging options consult
	   "http://libvirt.org/logging.html"

BUGS
       Report any bugs discovered to the libvirt community via the mailing
       list "http://libvirt.org/contact.html" or bug tracker
       "http://libvirt.org/bugs.html".	Alternatively report bugs to your
       software distributor / vendor.

AUTHORS
	 Please refer to the AUTHORS file distributed with libvirt.

	 Based on the virsh man page.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2015 Red Hat, Inc., and the authors listed in the libvirt
       AUTHORS file.

LICENSE
       virt-admin is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL v2+.  This is
       free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
       warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE

SEE ALSO
       virsh(1), virt-xml-validate(1), virt-host-validate(1),
       <http://www.libvirt.org/>



libvirt-1.3.1			  2015-12-02			 VIRT-ADMIN(1)