Starting, stopping, and removing KVM instances

In the previous recipe, we saw how to define new KVM virtual machine by either manually writing the XML definition file or using the virt-install tool to define the instance for us.

If you define a new instance from an XML file, by default the instance will not start automatically. In this recipe, we will see how to start an instance that was previously configured.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we are going to need the following:

• The QEMU binaries, provided after following the Installing and configuring QEMU recipe from Chapter 1, Getting Started with QEMU and KVM.
• The custom raw Debian image we built in the Installing a custom OS on the image with debootstrap recipe from the...