Shell scripting List and delete VMs - ganeshahv/Contrail_SRE GitHub Wiki

1. Retrieve VMs using virsh list --all
2. Retrieve VMs info without the header using virsh list --all | tail -n +3
3. Retrieve only the VMs names using virsh list --all | tail -n +3 | awk '{print $2}'
4. Delete the VMs using the following command:

for vmname in ` virsh list --all | tail -n +3 | awk '{print $2}'` ; do
    virsh destroy ${vmname}
    virsh undefine ${vmname}
    virsh vol-delete /home/images/${vmname}.img
done

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