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At the moment we are missing even basic documentation on our capabilities XML. Without demand on completeness, I'm reorganizing the document structure and adding very basic documentation to two major components of the capabilities XML. These stubs are intended to be enhanced in the future. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
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XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
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<body>
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<h1>Driver capabilities XML format</h1>
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<ul id="toc"></ul>
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<h2><a name="elements">Element and attribute overview</a></h2>
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<p>As new virtualization engine support gets added to libvirt, and to
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handle cases like QEMU supporting a variety of emulations, a query
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interface has been added in 0.2.1 allowing to list the set of supported
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virtualization capabilities on the host:</p>
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<pre> char * virConnectGetCapabilities (virConnectPtr conn);</pre>
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<p>The value returned is an XML document listing the virtualization
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capabilities of the host and virtualization engine to which
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<code>@conn</code> is connected. One can test it using <code>virsh</code>
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command line tool command '<code>capabilities</code>', it dumps the XML
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associated to the current connection. </p>
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<p>As can be seen seen in the <a href="#elementExamples">example</a>, the
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capabilities XML consists of the <code>capabilities</code> element which
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have exactly one <code>host</code> child element to report information on
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host capabilities, and zero or more <code>guest</code> element to express
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the set of architectures the host can run at the moment.</p>
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<h3><a name="elementHost">Host capabilities</a></h3>
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<p>The <code><host/></code> element consists of the following child
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elements:</p>
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<dl>
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<dt><code>uuid</code></dt>
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<dd>The host UUID.</dd>
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<dt><code>cpu</code></dt>
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<dd>The host CPU architecture and features.</dd>
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<dt><code>power_management</code></dt>
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<dd>whether host is capable of memory suspend, disk hibernation, or
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hybrid suspend.</dd>
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<dt><code>migration</code></dt>
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<dd>This element exposes information on the hypervisor's migration
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capabilities, like live migration, supported URI transports, and so
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on.</dd>
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<dt><code>topology</code></dt>
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<dd>This element embodies the host internal topology. Management
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applications may want to learn this information when orchestrating new
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guests - e.g. due to reduce inter-NUMA node transfers.</dd>
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<dt><code>secmodel</code></dt>
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<dd>To find out default security labels for different security models you
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need to parse this element. In contrast with the former elements, this is
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repeated for each security model the libvirt daemon currently supports.
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<h3><a name="elementGuest">Guest capabilities</a></h3>
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<p>While the <a href="#elementHost">previous section</a> aims at host
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capabilities, this one focuses on capabilities available to a guest
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using a given hypervisor. The <code><guest/></code> element will
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typically wrap up the following elements:</p>
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<dl>
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<dt><code>os_type</code></dt>
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<dd>This expresses what kind of operating system the hypervisor
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is able to run. Possible values are:
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<dl>
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<dt>xen</dt>
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<dd>for XEN</dd>
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<dt>linux</dt>
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<dd>legacy alias for <code>xen</code></dd>
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<dt>hvm</dt>
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<dd>Unmodified operating system</dd>
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<dt>exe</dt>
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<dd>Container based virtualization</dd>
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<dt>uml</dt>
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<dd>User Mode Linux</dd>
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</dl>
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</dd>
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<dt><code>arch</code></dt>
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<dd>This element brings some information on supported guest architecture.</dd>
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<dt><code>features</code></dt>
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<dd>This optional element encases possible features that can be used
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with a guest of described type.</dd>
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</dl>
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<h3><a name="elementExamples">Examples</a></h3>
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<p>For example, in the case of a 64-bit machine with hardware
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virtualization capabilities enabled in the chip and
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BIOS you will see:</p>
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<pre><capabilities>
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<span style="color: #E50000"><host>
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<cpu>
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<arch>x86_64</arch>
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<features>
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<vmx/>
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</features>
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<model>core2duo</model>
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<vendor>Intel</vendor>
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<topology sockets="1" cores="2" threads="1"/>
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<feature name="lahf_lm"/>
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<feature name='xtpr'/>
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...
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</cpu>
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<power_management>
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<suspend_mem/>
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<suspend_disk/>
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<suspend_hybrid/>
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<power_management/>
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</host></span>
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<!-- xen-3.0-x86_64 -->
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<span style="color: #0000E5"><guest>
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<os_type>xen</os_type>
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<arch name="x86_64">
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<wordsize>64</wordsize>
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<domain type="xen"></domain>
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<emulator>/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
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</arch>
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<features>
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</features>
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</guest></span>
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<!-- hvm-3.0-x86_32 -->
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<span style="color: #00B200"><guest>
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<os_type>hvm</os_type>
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<arch name="i686">
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<wordsize>32</wordsize>
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<domain type="xen"></domain>
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<emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
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<machine>pc</machine>
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<machine>isapc</machine>
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<loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader>
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</arch>
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<features>
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<cpuselection/>
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<deviceboot/>
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</features>
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</guest></span>
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...
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</capabilities></pre>
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</body>
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</html>
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