VIRT-VIEWER(1)		    Virtualization Support		VIRT-VIEWER(1)



NAME
       virt-viewer - display the graphical console for a virtual machine

SYNOPSIS
       virt-viewer [OPTIONS] -- DOMAIN-NAME|ID|UUID

DESCRIPTION
       virt-viewer is a minimal tool for displaying the graphical console of a
       virtual machine. The console is accessed using the VNC or SPICE
       protocol. The guest can be referred to based on its name, ID, or UUID.
       If the guest is not already running, then the viewer can be told to
       wait until it starts before attempting to connect to the console.  The
       viewer can connect to remote hosts to lookup the console information
       and then also connect to the remote console using the same network
       transport.

OPTIONS
       The following options are accepted when running "virt-viewer":

       -h, --help
	   Display command line help summary

       -V, --version
	   Display program version number

       -v, --verbose
	   Display information about the connection

       -c URI, --connect=URI
	   Specify the hypervisor connection URI

       -w, --wait
	   Wait for the domain to start up before attempting to connect to the
	   console

       -r, --reconnect
	   Automatically reconnect to the domain if it shuts down and restarts

       -z PCT, --zoom=PCT
	   Zoom level of the display window in percentage. Range 10-400.

       -d, --direct
	   Do not attempt to tunnel the console over SSH, even if the main
	   connection URI used SSH.

       -a, --attach
	   Instead of making a direct TCP/UNIX socket connection to the remote
	   display, ask libvirt to provide a pre-connected socket for the
	   display. This avoids the need to authenticate with the remote
	   display server directly. This option will only work when connecting
	   to a guest that is running on the same host as the virt-viewer
	   program. If attaching to the guest via libvirt fails, virt-viewer
	   will automatically fallback to trying a regular direct TCP/UNIX
	   socket connection.

       -f, --full-screen
	   Start with the window maximised to fullscreen

       --debug
	   Print debugging information

       -H HOTKEYS, --hotkeys HOTKEYS
	   Set global hotkey bindings. By default, keyboard shortcuts only
	   work when the guest display widget does not have focus.  Any
	   actions specified in HOTKEYS will be effective even when the guest
	   display widget has input focus. The format for HOTKEYS is
	   <action1>=<key1>[+<key2>][,<action2>=<key3>[+<key4>]].  Key-names
	   are case-insensitive. Valid actions are: toggle-fullscreen,
	   release-cursor, secure-attention, smartcard-insert and smartcard-
	   remove.  The "secure-attention" action sends a secure attention
	   sequence (Ctrl+Alt+Del) to the guest. Examples:

	     --hotkeys=toggle-fullscreen=shift+f11,release-cursor=shift+f12

	     --hotkeys=release-cursor=ctrl+alt

	   Note that hotkeys for which no binding is given are disabled.
	   Although the hotkeys specified here are handled by the client, it
	   is still possible to send these key combinations to the guest via a
	   menu item.

       -k, --kiosk
	   Start in kiosk mode. In this mode, the application will start in
	   fullscreen with minimal UI. It will prevent the user from quitting
	   or performing any interaction outside of usage of the remote
	   desktop session.

	   Note that it can't offer a complete secure solution by itself. Your
	   kiosk system must have additional configuration and security
	   settings to lock down the OS. In particular, you must configure or
	   disable the window manager, limit the session capabilities, use
	   some restart/watchdog mechanism, disable VT switching etc.

       --kiosk-quit <never|on-disconnect>
	   By default, when kiosk mode is enabled, virt-viewer will remain
	   open when the connection to the remote server is terminated. By
	   setting kiosk-quit option to "on-disconnect" value, virt-viewer
	   will quit instead. Please note that --reconnect takes precedence
	   over this option, and will attempt to do a reconnection before it
	   quits.

EXAMPLES
       To connect to the guest called 'demo' running under Xen

	  virt-viewer demo

       To connect to the guest with ID 7 running under QEMU

	  virt-viewer --connect qemu:///system 7

       To wait for the guest with UUID 66ab33c0-6919-a3f7-e659-16c82d248521 to
       startup and then connect, also reconnecting upon restart of VM

	  virt-viewer --reconnect --wait 66ab33c0-6919-a3f7-e659-16c82d248521

       To connect to a remote console using TLS

	  virt-viewer --connect xen://example.org/ demo

       To connect to a remote host using SSH, lookup the guest config and then
       make a direct non-tunnelled connection of the console

	  virt-viewer --direct --connect xen+ssh://root@example.org/ demo

AUTHOR
       Written by Daniel P. Berrange, based on the GTK-VNC example program
       gvncviewer.

BUGS
       Report bugs to the mailing list
       "http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list"

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2007-2014 Red Hat, Inc., and various contributors.	 This
       is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License
       "https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html". There is NO WARRANTY, to
       the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       virsh(1), "virt-manager(1)", the project website
       "http://virt-manager.org"



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