[CentOS] Deleting a KVM virtual machine from the command line

Sean Carolan scarolan at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 21:43:52 UTC 2011


> Did you try:
>
> virsh undefine  domain-id
>
> where domain-id is your vm name

Perfect, thanks Earl!  Here's the script in case anyone else might
find it useful.  Please post any improvements if you can see a way to
improve it.

#!/bin/bash
# Removes all KVM virtual machines from this host

# First destroy all running VMs
for i in $(virsh -q list | awk '{ print $2 }'); do
  virsh destroy $i;
  virsh undefine $i;
done;

# Next we delete their virtual disk images
rm -rf /var/lib/libvirt/images/*.img



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