=head1 NAME

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

=head1 SYNOPSIS

B<virt-viewer> [OPTIONS] DOMAIN-NAME|ID|UUID

=head1 DESCRIPTION

B<virt-viewer> is a minimal tool for displaying the graphical console
of a virtual machine. The console is accessed using the VNC 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 is 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.

=head1 OPTIONS

The following options are accepted when running C<virt-viewer>:

=over 4

=item -h, -help

Display command line help summary

=item -V, --version

Display program version number

=item -v, --verbose

Display information about the connection

=item -c URI, --connect=URI

Specify the hypervisor connection URI

=item -w, --wait

Wait for the domain to start up before attempting to connect to the console

=item -d, --direct

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

=back

=head1 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

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

=head1 AUTHOR

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

=head1 BUGS

Report bugs to the mailing list C<http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/et-mgmt-tools>

=head1 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2007 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 C<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by law.

=head1 SEE ALSO

C<virsh(1)>, C<virt-manager(1)>, the project website C<http://virt-manager.org>

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