How do i list kvm virtual machines using the cli?

giantpanda

As this is a nested virtualization configuration you do not see the Domain-0, The Domain-0 is the host system. Here you can see the guest only, KVM supports nested virtualization.

# virsh list
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 1     Cirros                         running

You would usually see something like this:

# virsh list
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
0     Domain-0                       running
1     Cirros                         running

Running the virsh with just list does not show powered off or shut down servers. To show these run the following:

# virsh list --all
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 1     Cirros                         running
 -     Redhat7                        shut off

or just the inactive machines.

# virsh list --inactive
 Id    Name                           State
----------------------------------------------------
 -     Redhat7                        shut off