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Thu May 8 10:19:11 EST 2008 Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
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<div id="content"> <div id="content">
<h1>Domain XML format</h1> <h1>Domain XML format</h1>
<p>This section describes the XML format used to represent domains, there are <ul><li>
variations on the format based on the kind of domains run and the options <a href="#elements">Element and attribute overview</a>
used to launch them:</p> <ul><li>
<h3 id="Normal"><a name="Normal1" id="Normal1">Normal paravirtualized Xen <a href="#elementsMetadata">General metadata</a>
guests</a>:</h3> </li><li>
<p>The root element must be called <code>domain</code> with no namespace, the <a href="#elementsOS">Operating system booting</a>
<code>type</code> attribute indicates the kind of hypervisor used, 'xen' is <ul><li>
the default value. The <code>id</code> attribute gives the domain id at <a href="#elementsOSBIOS">BIOS bootloader</a>
runtime (not however that this may change, for example if the domain is saved </li><li>
to disk and restored). The domain has a few children whose order is not <a href="#elementsOSBootloader">Host bootloader</a>
significant:</p> </li><li>
<ul><li>name: the domain name, preferably ASCII based</li><li>memory: the maximum memory allocated to the domain in kilobytes</li><li>vcpu: the number of virtual cpu configured for the domain</li><li>os: a block describing the Operating System, its content will be <a href="#elementsOSKernel">Direct kernel boot</a>
dependent on the OS type </li></ul>
<ul><li>type: indicate the OS type, always linux at this point</li><li>kernel: path to the kernel on the Domain 0 filesystem</li><li>initrd: an optional path for the init ramdisk on the Domain 0 </li><li>
filesystem</li><li>cmdline: optional command line to the kernel</li><li>root: the root filesystem from the guest viewpoint, it may be <a href="#elementsResources">Basic resources</a>
passed as part of the cmdline content too</li></ul></li><li>devices: a list of <code>disk</code>, <code>interface</code> and </li><li>
<code>console</code> descriptions in no special order</li></ul> <a href="#elementsLifecycle">Lifecycle control</a>
<p>The format of the devices and their type may grow over time, but the </li><li>
following should be sufficient for basic use:</p> <a href="#elementsFeatures">Hypervisor features</a>
<p>A <code>disk</code> device indicates a block device, it can have two </li><li>
values for the type attribute either 'file' or 'block' corresponding to the 2 <a href="#elementsTime">Time keeping</a>
options available at the Xen layer. It has two mandatory children, and one </li><li>
optional one in no specific order:</p> <a href="#elementsDevices">Devices</a>
<ul><li>source with a file attribute containing the path in Domain 0 to the <ul><li>
file or a dev attribute if using a block device, containing the device <a href="#elementsDisks">Hard drives, floppy disks, CDROMs</a>
name ('hda5' or '/dev/hda5')</li><li>target indicates in a dev attribute the device where it is mapped in </li><li>
the guest</li><li>readonly an optional empty element indicating the device is <a href="#elementsNICS">Network interfaces</a>
read-only</li><li>shareable an optional empty element indicating the device <ul><li>
can be used read/write with other domains</li></ul> <a href="#elementsNICSVirtual">Virtual network</a>
<p>An <code>interface</code> element describes a network device mapped on the </li><li>
guest, it also has a type whose value is currently 'bridge', it also have a <a href="#elementsNICSBridge">Bridge to to LAN</a>
number of children in no specific order:</p> </li><li>
<ul><li>source: indicating the bridge name</li><li>mac: the optional mac address provided in the address attribute</li><li>ip: the optional IP address provided in the address attribute</li><li>script: the script used to bridge the interface in the Domain 0</li><li>target: and optional target indicating the device name.</li></ul> <a href="#elementsNICSSlirp">Userspace SLIRP stack</a>
<p>A <code>console</code> element describes a serial console connection to </li><li>
the guest. It has no children, and a single attribute <code>tty</code> which <a href="#elementsNICSEthernet">Generic ethernet connection</a>
provides the path to the Pseudo TTY on which the guest console can be </li><li>
accessed</p> <a href="#elementsNICSMulticast">Multicast tunnel</a>
<p>Life cycle actions for the domain can also be expressed in the XML format, </li><li>
they drive what should be happening if the domain crashes, is rebooted or is <a href="#elementsNICSTCP">TCP tunnel</a>
poweroff. There is various actions possible when this happen:</p> </li></ul>
<ul><li>destroy: The domain is cleaned up (that's the default normal processing </li><li>
in Xen)</li><li>restart: A new domain is started in place of the old one with the same <a href="#elementsInput">Input devices</a>
configuration parameters</li><li>preserve: The domain will remain in memory until it is destroyed </li><li>
manually, it won't be running but allows for post-mortem debugging</li><li>rename-restart: a variant of the previous one but where the old domain <a href="#elementsGraphics">Graphical framebuffers</a>
is renamed before being saved to allow a restart</li></ul> </li><li>
<p>The following could be used for a Xen production system:</p> <a href="#elementsConsole">Consoles, serial &amp; parallel devices</a>
<pre>&lt;domain&gt; <ul><li>
... <a href="#elementsCharSTDIO">Domain logfile</a>
&lt;on_reboot&gt;restart&lt;/on_reboot&gt; </li><li>
&lt;on_poweroff&gt;destroy&lt;/on_poweroff&gt; <a href="#elementsCharFle">Device logfile</a>
&lt;on_crash&gt;rename-restart&lt;/on_crash&gt; </li><li>
... <a href="#elementsCharVC">Virtual console</a>
&lt;/domain&gt;</pre> </li><li>
<p>While the format may be extended in various ways as support for more <a href="#elementsCharNull">Null device</a>
hypervisor types and features are added, it is expected that this core subset </li><li>
will remain functional in spite of the evolution of the library.</p> <a href="#elementsCharPTY">Pseudo TTY</a>
<h3 id="Fully"> </li><li>
<a name="Fully1" id="Fully1">Fully virtualized guests</a> <a href="#elementsCharHost">Host device proxy</a>
</h3> </li><li>
<p>There is a few things to notice specifically for HVM domains:</p> <a href="#elementsCharTCP">TCP client/server</a>
<ul><li>the optional <code>&lt;features&gt;</code> block is used to enable </li><li>
certain guest CPU / system features. For HVM guests the following <a href="#elementsCharUDP">UDP network console</a>
features are defined: </li><li>
<ul><li><code>pae</code> - enable PAE memory addressing</li><li><code>apic</code> - enable IO APIC</li><li><code>acpi</code> - enable ACPI bios</li></ul></li><li>the optional <code>&lt;clock&gt;</code> element is used to specify <a href="#elementsCharUNIX">UNIX domain socket client/server</a>
whether the emulated BIOS clock in the guest is synced to either </li></ul>
<code>localtime</code> or <code>utc</code>. In general Windows will </li></ul>
want <code>localtime</code> while all other operating systems will </li></ul>
want <code>utc</code>. The default is thus <code>utc</code></li><li>the <code>&lt;os&gt;</code> block description is very different, first </li><li>
it indicates that the type is 'hvm' for hardware virtualization, then <a href="#examples">Example configs</a>
instead of a kernel, boot and command line arguments, it points to an os </li></ul>
boot loader which will extract the boot information from the boot device <p>
specified in a separate boot element. The <code>dev</code> attribute on This section describes the XML format used to represent domains, there are
the <code>boot</code> tag can be one of: variations on the format based on the kind of domains run and the options
<ul><li><code>fd</code> - boot from first floppy device</li><li><code>hd</code> - boot from first harddisk device</li><li><code>cdrom</code> - boot from first cdrom device</li></ul></li><li>the <code>&lt;devices&gt;</code> section includes an emulator entry used to launch them. For hypervisor specific details consult the
pointing to an additional program in charge of emulating the devices</li><li>the disk entry indicates in the dev target section that the emulation <a href="drivers.html">driver docs</a>
for the drive is the first IDE disk device hda. The list of device names </p>
supported is dependent on the Hypervisor, but for Xen it can be any IDE <h2>
device <code>hda</code>-<code>hdd</code>, or a floppy device <a name="elements" id="elements">Element and attribute overview</a>
<code>fda</code>, <code>fdb</code>. The <code>&lt;disk&gt;</code> element </h2>
also supports a 'device' attribute to indicate what kinda of hardware to <p>
emulate. The following values are supported: The root element required for all virtual machines is
<ul><li><code>floppy</code> - a floppy disk controller</li><li><code>disk</code> - a generic hard drive (the default it named <code>domain</code>. It has two attributes, the
omitted)</li><li><code>cdrom</code> - a CDROM device</li></ul> <code>type</code> specifies the hypervisor used for running
For Xen 3.0.2 and earlier a CDROM device can only be emulated on the the domain. The allowed values are driver specific, but
<code>hdc</code> channel, while for 3.0.3 and later, it can be emulated include "xen", "kvm", "qemu", "lxc" and "kqemu". The
on any IDE channel.</li><li>the <code>&lt;devices&gt;</code> section also include at least one second attribute is <code>id</code> which is a unique
entry for the graphic device used to render the os. Currently there is integer identifier for the running guest machine. Inactive
just 2 types possible 'vnc' or 'sdl'. If the type is 'vnc', then an machines have no id value.
additional <code>port</code> attribute will be present indicating the TCP </p>
port on which the VNC server is accepting client connections.</li></ul>
<p>It is likely that the HVM description gets additional optional elements
and attributes as the support for fully virtualized domain expands,
especially for the variety of devices emulated and the graphic support
options offered.</p>
<h3> <h3>
<a name="Net1" id="Net1">Networking interface options</a> <a name="elementsMetadata" id="elementsMetadata">General metadata</a>
</h3> </h3>
<p>The networking support in the QEmu and KVM case is more flexible, and <pre>
support a variety of options:</p> &lt;domain type='xen' id='3'&gt;
<ol><li>Userspace SLIRP stack &lt;name&gt;fv0&lt;/name&gt;
<p>Provides a virtual LAN with NAT to the outside world. The virtual &lt;uuid&gt;4dea22b31d52d8f32516782e98ab3fa0&lt;/uuid&gt;
network has DHCP &amp; DNS services and will give the guest VM addresses ...</pre>
starting from <code>10.0.2.15</code>. The default router will be <dl><dt><code>name</code></dt><dd>The content of the <code>name</code> element provides
<code>10.0.2.2</code> and the DNS server will be <code>10.0.2.3</code>. a short name for the virtual machine. This name should
This networking is the only option for unprivileged users who need their consist only of alpha-numeric characters and is required
VMs to have outgoing access. Example configs are:</p> to be unique within the scope of a single host. It is
<pre>&lt;interface type='user'/&gt;</pre> often used to form the filename for storing the persistent
<pre> configuration file. <span class="since">Since 0.0.1</span></dd><dt><code>uuid</code></dt><dd>The content of the <code>uuid</code> element provides
&lt;interface type='user'&gt; a globally unique identifier for the virtual machine.
&lt;mac address="11:22:33:44:55:66"/&gt; The format must be RFC 4122 compliant, eg <code>3e3fce45-4f53-4fa7-bb32-11f34168b82b</code>.
&lt;/interface&gt; If omitted when defining/creating a new machine, a random
</pre> UUID is generated. <span class="since">Since 0.0.1</span></dd></dl>
</li><li>Virtual network <h3>
<p>Provides a virtual network using a bridge device in the host. <a name="elementsOS" id="elementsOS">Operating system booting</a>
Depending on the virtual network configuration, the network may be </h3>
totally isolated, NAT'ing to an explicit network device, or NAT'ing to <p>
the default route. DHCP and DNS are provided on the virtual network in There are a number of different ways to boot virtual machines
all cases and the IP range can be determined by examining the virtual each with their own pros and cons.
network config with '<code>virsh net-dumpxml &lt;network </p>
name&gt;</code>'. There is one virtual network called 'default' setup out <h4>
of the box which does NAT'ing to the default route and has an IP range of <a name="elementsOSBIOS" id="elementsOSBIOS">BIOS bootloader</a>
<code>192.168.22.0/255.255.255.0</code>. Each guest will have an </h4>
associated tun device created with a name of vnetN, which can also be <p>
overridden with the &lt;target&gt; element. Example configs are:</p> Booting via the BIOS is available for hypervisors supporting
<pre>&lt;interface type='network'&gt; full virtualization. In this case the BIOS has a boot order
&lt;source network='default'/&gt; priority (floppy, harddisk, cdrom, network) determining where
&lt;/interface&gt; to obtain/find the boot image.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;os&gt;
&lt;type&gt;hvm&lt;/type&gt;
&lt;loader&gt;/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader&lt;/loader&gt;
&lt;boot dev='hd'/&gt;
&lt;/os&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>type</code></dt><dd>The content of the <code>type</code> element specifies the
type of operating system to be booted in the virtual machine.
<code>hvm</code> indicates that the OS is one designed to run
on bare metal, so requires full virtualization. <code>linux</code>
(badly named!) refers to an OS that supports the Xen 3 hypervisor
guest ABI. There are also two optional attributes, <code>arch</code>
specifying the CPU architecture to virtualization, and <code>machine</code>
refering to the machine type. The <a href="formatcaps.html">Capabilities XML</a>
provides details on allowed values for these. <span class="since">Since 0.0.1</span></dd><dt><code>loader</code></dt><dd>The optional <code>loader</code> tag refers to a firmware blob
used to assist the domain creation process. At this time, it is
only needed by Xen fullyvirtualized domains. <span class="since">Since 0.1.0</span></dd><dt><code>boot</code></dt><dd>The <code>dev</code> attribute takes one of the values "fd", "hd",
"cdrom" or "network" and is used to specify the next boot device
to consider. The <code>boot</code> element can be repeated multiple
times to setup a priority list of boot devices to try in turn.
<span class="since">Since 0.1.3</span>
</dd></dl>
<h4>
<a name="elementsOSBootloader" id="elementsOSBootloader">Host bootloader</a>
</h4>
<p>
Hypervisors employing paravirtualization do not usually emulate
a BIOS, and instead the host is responsible to kicking off the
operating system boot. This may use a pseduo-bootloader in the
host to provide an interface to choose a kernel for the guest.
An example is <code>pygrub</code> with Xen.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;bootloader&gt;/usr/bin/pygrub&lt;/bootloader&gt;
&lt;bootloader_args&gt;--append single&lt;/bootloader_args&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>bootloader</code></dt><dd>The content of the <code>bootloader</code> element provides
a fullyqualified path to the bootloader executable in the
host OS. This bootloader will be run to choose which kernel
to boot. The required output of the bootloader is dependant
on the hypervisor in use. <span class="since">Since 0.1.0</span></dd><dt><code>bootloader_args</code></dt><dd>The optional <code>bootloader_args</code> element allows
command line arguments to be passed to the bootloader.
<span class="since">Since 0.2.3</span>
</dd></dl>
<h4>
<a name="elementsOSKernel" id="elementsOSKernel">Direct kernel boot</a>
</h4>
<p>
When installing a new guest OS it is often useful to boot directly
from a kernel and initrd stored in the host OS, allowing command
line arguments to be passed directly to the installer. This capability
is usually available for both para and full virtualized guests.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;os&gt;
&lt;type&gt;hvm&lt;/type&gt;
&lt;loader&gt;/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader&lt;/loader&gt;
&lt;kernel&gt;/root/f8-i386-vmlinuz&lt;/kernel&gt;
&lt;initrd&gt;/root/f8-i386-initrd&lt;/initrd&gt;
&lt;cmdline&gt;console=ttyS0 ks=http://example.com/f8-i386/os/&lt;/cmdline&gt;
&lt;/os&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>type</code></dt><dd>This element has the same semantics as described earlier in the
<a href="#elementsOSBIOS">BIOS boot section</a></dd><dt><code>type</code></dt><dd>This element has the same semantics as described earlier in the
<a href="#elementsOSBIOS">BIOS boot section</a></dd><dt><code>kernel</code></dt><dd>The contents of this element specify the fully-qualified path
to the kernel image in the host OS.</dd><dt><code>initrd</code></dt><dd>The contents of this element specify the fully-qualified path
to the (optional) ramdisk image in the host OS.</dd><dt><code>cmdline</code></dt><dd>The contents of this element specify arguments to be passed to
the kernel (or installer) at boottime. This is often used to
specify an alternate primary console (eg serial port), or the
installation media source / kickstart file</dd></dl>
<h3>
<a name="elementsResources" id="elementsResources">Basic resources</a>
</h3>
<pre>
...
&lt;memory&gt;524288&lt;/memory&gt;
&lt;currentMemory&gt;524288&lt;/currentMemory&gt;
&lt;vcpu&gt;1&lt;/vcpu&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>memory</code></dt><dd>The maximum allocation of memory for the guest at boot time.
The units for this value are bytes</dd><dt><code>currentMemory</code></dt><dd>The actual allocation of memory for the guest. This value
be less than the maximum allocation, to allow for ballooning
up the guests memory on the fly. If this is omitted, it defaults
to the same value as the <code>memory<code> element</code></code></dd><dt><code>vcpu</code></dt><dd>The content of this element defines the number of virtual
CPUs allocated for the guest OS.</dd></dl>
<h3>
<a name="elementsLifecycle" id="elementsLifecycle">Lifecycle control</a>
</h3>
<p>
It is sometimes neccessary to override the default actions taken
when a guest OS triggers a lifecycle operation. The following
collections of elements allow the actions to be specified. A
common use case is to force a reboot to be treated as a poweroff
when doing the initial OS installation. This allows the VM to be
re-configured for the first post-install bootup.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;on_poweroff&gt;destroy&lt;/on_poweroff&gt;
&lt;on_reboot&gt;restart&lt;/on_reboot&gt;
&lt;on_crash&gt;restart&lt;/on_crash&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>on_poweroff</code></dt><dd>The content of this element specifies the action to take when
the guest requests a poweroff.</dd><dt><code>on_poweroff</code></dt><dd>The content of this element specifies the action to take when
the guest requests a reboot.</dd><dt><code>on_poweroff</code></dt><dd>The content of this element specifies the action to take when
the guest crashes.</dd></dl>
<p>
Each of these states allow for the same four possible actions.
</p>
<dl><dt><code>destroy</code></dt><dd>The domain will be terminated completely and all resources
released</dd><dt><code>restart</code></dt><dd>The domain will be terminated, and then restarted with
the same configuration</dd><dt><code>preserve</code></dt><dd>The domain will be terminated, and its resource preserved
to allow analysis.</dd><dt><code>rename-restart</code></dt><dd>The domain will be terminated, and then restarted with
a new name</dd></dl>
<h3>
<a name="elementsFeatures" id="elementsFeatures">Hypervisor features</a>
</h3>
<p>
Hypervisors may allow certain CPU / machine features to be
toggled on/off.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;features&gt;
&lt;pae/&gt;
&lt;acpi/&gt;
&lt;apic/&gt;
&lt;/features&gt;
...</pre>
<p>
All features are listed within the <code>features</code>
element, omitting a togglable feature tag turns it off.
The available features can be found by asking
for the <a href="formatcaps.html">capabilities XML</a>,
but a common set for fully virtualized domains are:
</p>
<dl><dt><code>pae</code></dt><dd>Physical address extension mode allows 32-bit guests
to address more than 4 GB of memory.</dd><dt><code>acpi</code></dt><dd>ACPI is useful for power management, for example, with
KVM guests it is required for graceful shutdown to work.
</dd></dl>
<h3>
<a name="elementsTime" id="elementsTime">Time keeping</a>
</h3>
<p>
The guest clock is typically initialized from the host clock.
Most operating systems expect the hardware clock to be kept
in UTC, and this is the default. Windows, however, expects
it to be in so called 'localtime'.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;clock sync="localtime"/&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>clock</code></dt><dd>The <code>sync</code> attribute takes either "utc" or
"localtime" to specify how the guest clock is initialized
in relation to the host OS.
</dd></dl>
<h3>
<a name="elementsDevices" id="elementsDevices">Devices</a>
</h3>
<p>
The final set of XML elements are all used to descibe devices
provided to the guest domain. All devices occur as children
of the main <code>devices</code> element.
<span class="since">Since 0.1.3</span>
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;devices&gt;
&lt;emulator&gt;/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm&lt;/emulator&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>emulator</code></dt><dd>
The contents of the <code>emulator</code> element specify
the fully qualified path to the device model emulator binary.
The <a href="formatcaps.html">capabilities XML</a> specifies
the recommended default emulator to use for each particular
domain type / architecture combination.
</dd></dl>
<h4>
<a name="elementsDisks" id="elementsDisks">Hard drives, floppy disks, CDROMs</a>
</h4>
<p>
Any device that looks like a disk, be it a floppy, harddisk,
cdrom, or paravirtualized driver is specified via the <code>disk</code>
element.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;disk type='file'&gt;
&lt;driver name="tap" type="aio"&gt;
&lt;source file='/var/lib/xen/images/fv0'/&gt;
&lt;target dev='hda' bus='ide'/&gt;
&lt;/disk&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>disk</code></dt><dd>The <code>disk</code> element is the main container for describing
disks. The <code>type</code> attribute is either "file" or "block"
and refers to the underlying source for the disk. The optional
<code>device</code> attribute indicates how the disk is to be exposed
to the guest OS. Possible values for this attribute are "floppy", "disk"
and "cdrom", defaulting to "disk".
<span class="since">Since 0.0.3; "device" attribute since 0.1.4</span></dd><dt><code>source</code></dt><dd>If the disk <code>type</code> is "file", then the <code>file</code> attribute
specifies the fully-qualified path to the file holding the disk. If the disk
<code>type</code> is "block", then the <code>dev</code> attribute specifies
the path to the host device to serve as the disk. <span class="since">Since 0.0.3</span></dd><dt><code>target</code></dt><dd>The <code>target</code> element controls the bus / device under which the
disk is exposed to the guest OS. The <code>dev</code> attribute indicates
the "logical" device name. The actual device name specified is not guarenteed to map to
the device name in the guest OS. Treat it as a device ordering hint.
The optional <code>bus</code> attribute specifies the type of disk device
to emulate; possible values are driver specific, with typical values being
"ide", "scsi", "virtio", "xen". If omitted, the bus type is inferred from
the style of the device name. eg, a device named 'sda' will typically be
exported using a SCSI bus.
<span class="since">Since 0.0.3; <code>bus</code> attribute since 0.4.3</span></dd><dt><code>driver</code></dt><dd>If the hypervisor supports multiple backend drivers, then the optional
<code>driver</code> element allows them to be selected. The <code>name</code>
attribute is the primary backend driver name, while the optional <code>type</code>
attribute provides the sub-type. <span class="since">Since 0.1.8</span>
</dd></dl>
<h4>
<a name="elementsNICS" id="elementsNICS">Network interfaces</a>
</h4>
<pre>
...
&lt;interface type='bridge'&gt;
&lt;source bridge='xenbr0'/&gt;
&lt;mac address='00:16:3e:5d:c7:9e'/&gt;
&lt;script path='vif-bridge'/&gt;
&lt;/interface&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsNICSVirtual" id="elementsNICSVirtual">Virtual network</a>
</h5>
<p>
<strong><em>
This is the recommended config for general guest connectivity on
hosts with dynamic / wireless networking configs
</em></strong>
</p>
<p>
Provides a virtual network using a bridge device in the host.
Depending on the virtual network configuration, the network may be
totally isolated, NAT'ing to an explicit network device, or NAT'ing to
the default route. DHCP and DNS are provided on the virtual network in
all cases and the IP range can be determined by examining the virtual
network config with '<code>virsh net-dumpxml [networkname]</code>'.
There is one virtual network called 'default' setup out
of the box which does NAT'ing to the default route and has an IP range of
<code>192.168.22.0/255.255.255.0</code>. Each guest will have an
associated tun device created with a name of vnetN, which can also be
overridden with the &lt;target&gt; element.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;interface type='network'&gt;
&lt;source network='default'/&gt;
&lt;/interface&gt;
...
&lt;interface type='network'&gt;
&lt;source network='default'/&gt;
&lt;target dev='vnet7'/&gt;
&lt;mac address="11:22:33:44:55:66"/&gt;
&lt;/interface&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsNICSBridge" id="elementsNICSBridge">Bridge to to LAN</a>
</h5>
<p>
<strong><em>
This is the recommended config for general guest connectivity on
hosts with static wired networking configs
</em></strong>
</p>
<p>
Provides a bridge from the VM directly onto the LAN. This assumes
there is a bridge device on the host which has one or more of the hosts
physical NICs enslaved. The guest VM will have an associated tun device
created with a name of vnetN, which can also be overridden with the
&lt;target&gt; element. The tun device will be enslaved to the bridge.
The IP range / network configuration is whatever is used on the LAN. This
provides the guest VM full incoming &amp; outgoing net access just like a
physical machine.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;interface type='bridge'&gt;
&lt;source bridge='br0'/&gt;
&lt;/interface&gt;
&lt;interface type='network'&gt; &lt;interface type='bridge'&gt;
&lt;source network='default'/&gt; &lt;source bridge='br0'/&gt;
&lt;target dev='vnet7'/&gt; &lt;target dev='vnet7'/&gt;
&lt;mac address="11:22:33:44:55:66"/&gt; &lt;mac address="11:22:33:44:55:66"/&gt;
&lt;/interface&gt; &lt;/interface&gt;
</pre> ...</pre>
</li><li>Bridge to to LAN <h5>
<p>Provides a bridge from the VM directly onto the LAN. This assumes <a name="elementsNICSSlirp" id="elementsNICSSlirp">Userspace SLIRP stack</a>
there is a bridge device on the host which has one or more of the hosts </h5>
physical NICs enslaved. The guest VM will have an associated tun device <p>
created with a name of vnetN, which can also be overridden with the Provides a virtual LAN with NAT to the outside world. The virtual
&lt;target&gt; element. The tun device will be enslaved to the bridge. network has DHCP &amp; DNS services and will give the guest VM addresses
The IP range / network configuration is whatever is used on the LAN. This starting from <code>10.0.2.15</code>. The default router will be
provides the guest VM full incoming &amp; outgoing net access just like a <code>10.0.2.2</code> and the DNS server will be <code>10.0.2.3</code>.
physical machine. Examples include:</p> This networking is the only option for unprivileged users who need their
<pre>&lt;interface type='bridge'&gt; VMs to have outgoing access.
&lt;source bridge='br0'/&gt; </p>
&lt;/interface&gt; <pre>
...
&lt;interface type='bridge'&gt; &lt;interface type='user'/&gt;
&lt;source bridge='br0'/&gt; ...
&lt;target dev='vnet7'/&gt; &lt;interface type='user'&gt;
&lt;mac address="11:22:33:44:55:66"/&gt; &lt;mac address="11:22:33:44:55:66"/&gt;
&lt;/interface&gt;</pre> &lt;/interface&gt;
</li><li>Generic connection to LAN ...</pre>
<p>Provides a means for the administrator to execute an arbitrary script <h5>
to connect the guest's network to the LAN. The guest will have a tun <a name="elementsNICSEthernet" id="elementsNICSEthernet">Generic ethernet connection</a>
device created with a name of vnetN, which can also be overridden with the </h5>
&lt;target&gt; element. After creating the tun device a shell script will <p>
be run which is expected to do whatever host network integration is Provides a means for the administrator to execute an arbitrary script
required. By default this script is called /etc/qemu-ifup but can be to connect the guest's network to the LAN. The guest will have a tun
overridden.</p> device created with a name of vnetN, which can also be overridden with the
<pre>&lt;interface type='ethernet'/&gt; &lt;target&gt; element. After creating the tun device a shell script will
be run which is expected to do whatever host network integration is
&lt;interface type='ethernet'&gt; required. By default this script is called /etc/qemu-ifup but can be
&lt;target dev='vnet7'/&gt; overridden.
&lt;script path='/etc/qemu-ifup-mynet'/&gt; </p>
&lt;/interface&gt;</pre> <pre>
</li><li>Multicast tunnel ...
<p>A multicast group is setup to represent a virtual network. Any VMs &lt;interface type='ethernet'/&gt;
whose network devices are in the same multicast group can talk to each ...
other even across hosts. This mode is also available to unprivileged &lt;interface type='ethernet'&gt;
users. There is no default DNS or DHCP support and no outgoing network &lt;target dev='vnet7'/&gt;
access. To provide outgoing network access, one of the VMs should have a &lt;script path='/etc/qemu-ifup-mynet'/&gt;
2nd NIC which is connected to one of the first 4 network types and do the &lt;/interface&gt;
appropriate routing. The multicast protocol is compatible with that used ...</pre>
by user mode linux guests too. The source address used must be from the <h5>
multicast address block.</p> <a name="elementsNICSMulticast" id="elementsNICSMulticast">Multicast tunnel</a>
<pre>&lt;interface type='mcast'&gt; </h5>
&lt;source address='230.0.0.1' port='5558'/&gt; <p>
&lt;/interface&gt;</pre> A multicast group is setup to represent a virtual network. Any VMs
</li><li>TCP tunnel whose network devices are in the same multicast group can talk to each
<p>A TCP client/server architecture provides a virtual network. One VM other even across hosts. This mode is also available to unprivileged
provides the server end of the network, all other VMS are configured as users. There is no default DNS or DHCP support and no outgoing network
clients. All network traffic is routed between the VMs via the server. access. To provide outgoing network access, one of the VMs should have a
This mode is also available to unprivileged users. There is no default 2nd NIC which is connected to one of the first 4 network types and do the
DNS or DHCP support and no outgoing network access. To provide outgoing appropriate routing. The multicast protocol is compatible with that used
network access, one of the VMs should have a 2nd NIC which is connected by user mode linux guests too. The source address used must be from the
to one of the first 4 network types and do the appropriate routing.</p> multicast address block.
<p>Example server config:</p> </p>
<pre>&lt;interface type='server'&gt; <pre>
&lt;source address='192.168.0.1' port='5558'/&gt; ...
&lt;/interface&gt;</pre> &lt;interface type='mcast'&gt;
<p>Example client config:</p> &lt;source address='230.0.0.1' port='5558'/&gt;
<pre>&lt;interface type='client'&gt; &lt;/interface&gt;
&lt;source address='192.168.0.1' port='5558'/&gt; ...</pre>
&lt;/interface&gt;</pre> <h5>
</li></ol> <a name="elementsNICSTCP" id="elementsNICSTCP">TCP tunnel</a>
<p>To be noted, options 2, 3, 4 are also supported by Xen VMs, so it is </h5>
possible to use these configs to have networking with both Xen &amp; <p>
QEMU/KVMs connected to each other.</p> A TCP client/server architecture provides a virtual network. One VM
<h2>Example configs</h2> provides the server end of the network, all other VMS are configured as
clients. All network traffic is routed between the VMs via the server.
This mode is also available to unprivileged users. There is no default
DNS or DHCP support and no outgoing network access. To provide outgoing
network access, one of the VMs should have a 2nd NIC which is connected
to one of the first 4 network types and do the appropriate routing.</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;interface type='server'&gt;
&lt;source address='192.168.0.1' port='5558'/&gt;
&lt;/interface&gt;
...
&lt;interface type='client'&gt;
&lt;source address='192.168.0.1' port='5558'/&gt;
&lt;/interface&gt;
...</pre>
<h4>
<a name="elementsInput" id="elementsInput">Input devices</a>
</h4>
<p>
Input devices allow interaction with the graphical framebuffer in the guest
virtual machine. When enabling the framebuffer, an input device is automatically
provided. It may be possible to add additional devices explicitly, for example,
to provide a graphics tablet for absolute cursor movement.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;input type='mouse' bus='usb'/&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>input</code></dt><dd>The <code>input</code> element has one madatory attribute, the <code>type</code>
whose value can be either 'mouse' or 'tablet'. The latter provides absolute
cursor movement, while the former uses relative movement. The optional
<code>bus</code> attribute can be used to refine the exact device type.
It takes values "xen" (paravirtualized), "ps2" and "usb".</dd></dl>
<h4>
<a name="elementsGraphics" id="elementsGraphics">Graphical framebuffers</a>
</h4>
<p>
A graphics device allows for graphical interaction with the
guest OS. A guest will typically have either a framebuffer
or a text console configured to allow interaction with the
admin.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;graphics type='vnc' port='5904'/&gt;
...</pre>
<dl><dt><code>graphics</code></dt><dd>The <code>graphics</code> element has a mandatory <code>type</code>
attribute which takes the value "sdl" or "vnc". The former displays
a window on the host desktop, while the latter activates a VNC server.
If the latter is used the <code>port</code> attributes specifies the
TCP port number (with -1 indicating that it should be auto-allocated).
The <code>listen</code> attribute is an IP address for the server to
listen on. The <code>password</code> attribute provides a VNC password
in clear text.</dd></dl>
<h4>
<a name="elementsConsole" id="elementsConsole">Consoles, serial &amp; parallel devices</a>
</h4>
<p>
A character device provides a way to interact with the virtual machine.
Paravirtualized consoles, serial ports and parallel ports are all
classed as character devices and so represented using the same syntax.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;parallel type='pty'&gt;
&lt;source path='/dev/pts/2'/&gt;
&lt;target port='0'/&gt;
&lt;/parallel&gt;
&lt;serial type='pty'&gt;
&lt;source path='/dev/pts/3'/&gt;
&lt;target port='0'/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
&lt;console type='pty'&gt;
&lt;source path='/dev/pts/4'/&gt;
&lt;target port='0'/&gt;
&lt;/console&gt;
&lt;/devices&gt;
&lt;/domain&gt;</pre>
<dl><dt><code>parallel</code></dt><dd>Represents a parallel port</dd><dt><code>serial</code></dt><dd>Represents a serial port</dd><dt><code>console</code></dt><dd>Represents the primary console. This can be the paravirtualized
console with Xen guests, or duplicates the primary serial port
for fully virtualized guests without a paravirtualized console.</dd><dt><code>source</code></dt><dd>The attributes available for the <code>source</code> element
vary according to the <code>type</code> attribute on the parent
tag. Allowed variations will be described below</dd><dt><code>target</code></dt><dd>The port number of the character device is specified via the
<code>port</code> attribute, numbered starting from 1. There is
usually only one console device, and 0, 1 or 2 serial devices
or parallel devices.
</dd></dl>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharSTDIO" id="elementsCharSTDIO">Domain logfile</a>
</h5>
<p>
This disables all input on the character device, and sends output
into the virtual machine's logfile
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;console type='stdio'&gt;
&lt;target port='1'&gt;
&lt;/console&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharFle" id="elementsCharFle">Device logfile</a>
</h5>
<p>
A file is opened and all data sent to the character
device is written to the file.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;serial type="file"&gt;
&lt;source path="/var/log/vm/vm-serial.log"/&gt;
&lt;target port="1"/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharVC" id="elementsCharVC">Virtual console</a>
</h5>
<p>
Connects the character device to the graphical framebuffer in
a virtual console. This is typically accessed via a special
hotkey sequence such as "ctrl+alt+3"
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;serial type='vc'&gt;
&lt;target port="1"/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharNull" id="elementsCharNull">Null device</a>
</h5>
<p>
Connects the character device to the void. No data is ever
provided to the input. All data written is discarded.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;serial type='null'&gt;
&lt;target port="1"/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharPTY" id="elementsCharPTY">Pseudo TTY</a>
</h5>
<p>
A Pseudo TTY is allocated using /dev/ptmx. A suitable client
such as 'virsh console' can connect to interact with the
serial port locally.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;serial type="pty"&gt;
&lt;source path="/dev/pts/3"/&gt;
&lt;target port="1"/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
...</pre>
<p>
NB special case if &lt;console type='pty'&gt;, then the TTY
path is also duplicated as an attribute tty='/dv/pts/3'
on the top level &lt;console&gt; tag. This provides compat
with existing syntax for &lt;console&gt; tags.
</p>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharHost" id="elementsCharHost">Host device proxy</a>
</h5>
<p>
The character device is passed through to the underlying
physical character device. The device types must match,
eg the emulated serial port should only be connected to
a host serial port - dont connect a serial port to a parallel
port.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;serial type="dev"&gt;
&lt;source path="/dev/ttyS0"/&gt;
&lt;target port="1"/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharTCP" id="elementsCharTCP">TCP client/server</a>
</h5>
<p>
The character device acts as a TCP client connecting to a
remote server, or as a server waiting for a client connection.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;serial type="tcp"&gt;
&lt;source mode="connect" host="0.0.0.0" service="2445"/&gt;
&lt;wiremode type="telnet"/&gt;
&lt;target port="1"/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharUDP" id="elementsCharUDP">UDP network console</a>
</h5>
<p>
The character device acts as a UDP netconsole service,
sending and receiving packets. This is a lossy service.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;serial type="udp"&gt;
&lt;source mode="bind" host="0.0.0.0" service="2445"/&gt;
&lt;source mode="connect" host="0.0.0.0" service="2445"/&gt;
&lt;target port="1"/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
...</pre>
<h5>
<a name="elementsCharUNIX" id="elementsCharUNIX">UNIX domain socket client/server</a>
</h5>
<p>
The character device acts as a UNIX domain socket server,
accepting connections from local clients.
</p>
<pre>
...
&lt;serial type="unix"&gt;
&lt;source mode="bind" path="/tmp/foo"/&gt;
&lt;target port="1"/&gt;
&lt;/serial&gt;
...</pre>
<h2>
<a name="examples" id="examples">Example configs</a>
</h2>
<p> <p>
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