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-u

username

-pw

password

-pwf

password file

-p

port

-s

server

Example: On a remote XenServer host:

xe vm-list -u 

<myuser>

 -pw 

<mypassword>

 -s 

<hostname>

Arguments are also taken from the environment variable 

XE_EXTRA_ARGS

, in the form of comma-separated

key/value  pairs.  For  example,  in  order  to  enter  commands  on  one  XenServer  host  that  are  run  on  a  remote
XenServer host, you could do the following:

export XE_EXTRA_ARGS="server=jeffbeck,port=443,username=root,password=pass"

This command means that you will not need to specify the remote XenServer host parameters anymore, in each
xe command you execute.

Using the 

XE_EXTRA_ARGS

 environment variable also enables tab completion of xe commands when issued

against a remote XenServer host, which is disabled by default.

To specify argument/value pairs on the xe command line, write:

argument=value

Unless the value includes spaces, do not use quotes. There should be no whitespace in between the argument
name, the equals sign (=), and the value. Any argument not conforming to this format will be ignored.

For values containing spaces, write:

argument="value with spaces"

If you use the CLI while logged into a XenServer host, commands have a tab completion feature similar to that
in the standard Linux bash shell. If you type, for example xe vm-l and then press the TAB key, the rest of the
command will be displayed when it is unambiguous. If more than one command begins with vm-l, pressing TAB
a second time will list the possibilities. This is particularly useful when specifying object UUIDs in commands.

When executing commands on a remote XenServer host, tab completion does not normally
work. However if you put the server, username, and password in an environment variable
called 

XE_EXTRA_ARGS

 on the machine from which you are entering the commands, tab

completion is enabled. See 

 for details.

Broadly speaking, the CLI commands can be split in two halves: Low-level commands concerned with listing and
parameter manipulation of API objects, and higher level commands for interacting with VMs or hosts in a more
abstract level. The low-level commands are:

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