List and view VM information using VM Runtime on Google Distributed Cloud

This document is intended for application owners that run GKE on Bare Metal. This document shows you how to list VMs that run on GKE on Bare Metal using VM Runtime on Google Distributed Cloud. You can also view additional information for each VM.

Before you begin

To complete this document, you need access to the following resources:

List VMs

You can list VMs and their status across all namespaces, or only VMs in a specific namespace.

All namespaces

To view a list of VMs in your cluster, use the kubectl command.

  • View a list of all VMs using kubectl get gvm:

    kubectl get gvm --all-namespaces

    The following example output shows the VM information:

    NAME   STATUS    AGE   IP
vm1    Running   7m    192.168.2.72
vm2    Running   4m    192.168.2.73

Single namespace

To view a list of VMs in a specific namespace, use the --namespace parameter with the kubectl command.

  • View a list of VMs in a namespace using kubectl get gvm:

    kubectl get gvm --namespace NAMESPACE_NAME

    Replace NAMESPACE_NAME with the namespace you want to view.

    The following example output shows the VM information:

    NAME   STATUS    AGE   IP
vm1    Running   7m    192.168.2.72

View VM information

If you want to view information about a specific VM in your cluster, use kubectl. This option is useful to view additional configuration information for a VM, such as storage or networking.

  • View detailed information about a VM using kubectl describe gvm:

    kubectl describe gvm VM_NAME --namespace NAMESPACE_NAME

    Replace the following values:

    • VM_NAME: the name of your VM.
    • NAMESPACE_NAME: the namespace for your VM.

    The following example output snippet shows the detailed information for the VM that you specify:

    Name:         vm1
Namespace:    default
Labels:       <none>
Annotations:  <none>
API Version:  vm.cluster.gke.io/v1
Kind:         VirtualMachine
Metadata:
  Creation Timestamp:  2022-04-25T23:36:24Z
  Finalizers:
    vm.cluster.gke.io/vm-finalizer
  Generation:  1
  Managed Fields:
    API Version:  vm.cluster.gke.io/v1
    Fields Type:  FieldsV1
    fieldsV1:
...
Spec:
  Compute:
  Interfaces:
    Name:          eth0
    Network Name:  pod-network
  Virt Spec:
    Template:
      Metadata:
        Creation Timestamp:  <nil>
        Labels:
          kubevirt.io/vm:  vm1
      Spec:
        Domain:
          Cpu:
            Cores:  2
          Devices:
            Disks:
              Boot Order:  1
              Disk:
                Bus:  virtio
              Name:   vm1-boot-dv
          Resources:
            Requests:
              Memory:  4Gi
        Volumes:
          Data Volume:
            Name:  vm1-boot-dv
          Name:    vm1-boot-dv
Status:
  ...
  Interfaces:
    Dns Config:
      Nameservers:
        172.26.232.10
    Ip Addresses:
      192.168.4.118
    Mac Address:    f8:8f:ca:00:00:01
    Name:           eth0
    Resource Name:  vm1-eth0-f8b63
    Routes:
      To:  192.168.0.0/16
      To:  172.26.232.0/24
  State:   Running
Events:    <none>

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