virsh ssh into a guest vm

Is there anyway that I can ssh into a guest vm through virsh instead of find the ip address of the guest vm?

e.g.

what I want is ssh into a guest like this way :

$virsh ssh_or_somwthing <domain>

but not like this:

$ #1) find the guest vm's IP address:
$arp
...
$ #2) ssh someone@<IP>

3 Answers

Jacek has the right answer, but just to lay out some of the specifics:

1. Log into the VM using the KVM GUI

2. On the VM command line, type in:

   systemctl enable
   systemctl start 

You will be asked multiple times to enter your password/accept.

3. Reboot the VM

4. Then, from the terminal on your main machine, type in:

   sudo virsh console your_vm_name_here

Obviously replacing "your_vm_name_here" with whatever the VM name is.

Then you can "ssh" directly into the VM using virsh.

I'm not sure about it, but I think you're looking to configure console access to the guest? It may not be the only solution (not following virsh very actively and all this stuff) - but you can setup serial console on your guest, configure your supervisor and then use virsh console domain.

Anyway - have a look at this: - I guess it may help or at least put you in some direction.

You may want to take a read of SSHsetup for libvirtd

Seems to do what you want.