15.2. Creating a Virtual Machine

15.2. Creating a Virtual Machine

15.2. Creating a Virtual Machine

You can make a new virtual machine session from an XML machine definition. If you have a pre-existing guest that you created previously with the xm tool, you can also create a virtual machine for it:

virsh create <path to XML configuration file>

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