If you’ve tried changing the MAC address on a recent Ubuntu VM running under KVM/QEMU, you may have noticed that changing the address in the VM configuration on the host yields no result in the guest machine. Also, a change done using either Virtualmin’s configuration or the command line on the guest doesn’t survive a reboot.
Accessing host storage directly from a KVM guest is useful in many cases, for example when the storage is or grows large over time and it would be inefficient to hoard large volume of data inside the virtual machine itself.
KVM (Qemu) virtualization comes with a batch of useful basic command line tools to administer virtual machines without having to use the graphical VM manager.
To view the list of all virtual machines present on the system…
