[Users] How to start VM without ovirt

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/07/2012 01:43 PM, Vinzenz Feenstra wrote:
> On 11/06/2012 08:54 PM, EricD wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Im really concern about the ovirt-engine.
>> I do db & config files backup but is there a way to stop|start VM with
>> virsh directly in the hypervisors via CLI if the ovirt-engine ain't
>> working, crashed, .... ?
>>
>> I tried with `*virsh start <VM>`* with the '*vdsm at rhevh*' account but
>> didn't work. Seems like this user as restricted privileges.
> You can use for example vdsCli (package vdsm-cli) for this.
> vdsCli [-s] 0 destroy vmid
> vdsCli [-s] 0 list gives you the list of running vms on the node.
>
> Note: 0 stands for the current host you're on. You also can do this
> remotely if you replace 0 with the IP of the node/host.

but if you'll run a VM which is already running, the VM disks will get 
corrupted!