Oracle Audio Technologies E10898-02 User Manual

xm

Command-Line Tools

The Oracle VM Server management command-line management tool xm, creates, 
destroys, manages and migrates guests.

This section contains a brief explanation of some of the more common xm commands. 
For full documentation, use the 

xm help --long

 command.

The xm command-line tool requires the xend daemon to be started. 

Enter parameters to the xm command-line tool in the format:

xm [

] [

]

 for examples on using the 

xm command-line tool.

Attaches to a domain’s console.

xm console mydomain

Creates a domain based on the entries in the config-file. 

Entering the 

-c

 parameter attaches to the domain’s console when the domain is 

created and started. 

You can also enter name value pairs to override variables in the config-file using 
the name=value parameter.

xm -c /home/myhome/myconfig

Immediately terminates a domain. 

xm destroy mydomain

Displays message buffer logs similar in format to the equivalent to the dmesg 
command in the Linux kernel.

The 

--clear

 parameter clears the message buffer.

Displays help on the xm command, and its options. 

The 

--long

 option displays full help on xm commands, grouped by function. 

Enter a command name as an option to the xm command to get help only on that 
command.

xm help --long create

Displays information about the host computer. 

xm info