.TH vconsole 1 "(c) Gerd Hoffmann" .SH NAME vconsole - virtual machine console .SH SYNOPSIS .B vconsole [ options ] .SH DESCRIPTION .B vconsole is a virtual machine console, with a strong focus on guests using a serial console. Features a tabbed GUI, one tab for the VM list, then one per guest console. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B -c Specify libvirt URI to use. .TP .B -h Display help text. .TP .B -d Enable debug logging on stderr. .SH GETTING STARTED Just start vconsole. It comes up with a GUI which should be mostly self-explanatory. If you have LIBVIRT_DEFAULT_URI or VIRSH_DEFAULT_CONNECT_URI set it should pick it up automatically. If it comes up empty try passing the libvirt uri using the '-c' switch or use the "File / Connect ..." menu entry to connect. .P Hit 'Enter' on a host line to expland/collapse the guest list. Hit 'Enter' on a guest line to open a guest (text) console tab for it. .P Guest console tabs stay open until you explicitly close them using the 'close tab' file menu entry. When a guest starts the console will be (re-)connected automatically. .P Typing into a guest console for a guest not running will start it (this is probably temporary until we have more fancy gui controls for that). .SH AUTHOR Gerd Hoffmann