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Chapter 24. Miscellaneous administration tasks

24.1. Automatically starting guests
24.2. Using qemu-img
24.3. Verifying virtualization extensions
24.4. Setting KVM processor affinities
24.5. Generating a new unique MAC address
24.6. Improving guest response time
24.7. Very Secure ftpd
24.8. Disable SMART disk monitoring for guests
24.9. Configuring a VNC Server
24.10. Gracefully shutting down guests
24.11. Virtual machine timer management with libvirt
This chapter contain useful hints and tips to improve virtualization performance, scale and stability.

24.1. Automatically starting guests

This section covers how to make virtualized guests start automatically during the host system's boot phase.
This example uses virsh to set a guest, TestServer, to automatically start when the host boots.
# virsh autostart TestServer
Domain TestServer marked as autostarted
The guest now automatically starts with the host.
To stop a guest automatically booting use the --disable parameter
# virsh autostart --disable TestServer
Domain TestServer unmarked as autostarted
The guest no longer automatically starts with the host.