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Commands

Shutdown VM

virsh shutdown NAMEOFVM

Dump config of VM

virsh dumpxml NAMEOFVM >  NAMEOFVM.xml

Takes an XML configuration file (your VM definition) and registers it with libvirt. It creates the VM’s configuration in /etc/libvirt/qemu/ but doesn’t boot it.

virsh define win11.xml

That does the same as define, but also starts the VM immediately.

virsh create win11.xml

Start up VM

virsh start NAMEOFVM

Edit Live Machine

virsh edit NAMEOFVM

Set VM to AutoStart

virsh autostart NAMEOFVM.xml

Change VM from NAT to Bridge

Original Settings using default NAT

<interface type='network'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:1e:a9:91'/>
      <source network='default'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>

Settings using the bridge

<interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='52:54:00:1e:a9:91'/>
      <source bridge='br0'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x01' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>

Enable QEMU Commands on VM to set Serial Number

Change Domain information

<domain type='kvm' xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>

Add the following lines right before the

  <qemu:commandline>
    <qemu:arg value='-smbios'/>
    <qemu:arg value='type=1,serial=ABC123456789'/>
  </qemu:commandline>

Powershell command to ger serial number

Get-WmiObject Win32_BIOS | Select-Object SerialNumber

command to create a unique UUID

uuidgen

01 Netcfg Create Machine