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@xxxxxxxxxx>
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<h1>Driver capabilities XML format</h1>
- <p>As new virtualization engine support gets added to libvirt, and to handle
-cases like QEmu supporting a variety of emulations, a query interface has
-been added in 0.2.1 allowing to list the set of supported virtualization
-capabilities on the host:</p>
- <pre> char * virConnectGetCapabilities (virConnectPtr conn);</pre>
- <p>The value returned is an XML document listing the virtualization
-capabilities of the host and virtualization engine to which
-<code>@conn</code> is connected. One can test it using <code>virsh</code>
-command line tool command '<code>capabilities</code>', it dumps the XML
-associated to the current connection. For example in the case of a 64 bits
-machine with hardware virtualization capabilities enabled in the chip and
-BIOS you will see</p>
- <pre><capabilities>
+ <ul id="toc"></ul>
+
+ <h2><a name="elements">Element and attribute overview</a></h2>
+
+ <p>As new virtualization engine support gets added to libvirt, and to
+ handle cases like QEMU supporting a variety of emulations, a query
+ interface has been added in 0.2.1 allowing to list the set of supported
+ virtualization capabilities on the host:</p>
+
+ <pre> char * virConnectGetCapabilities (virConnectPtr conn);</pre>
+
+ <p>The value returned is an XML document listing the virtualization
+ capabilities of the host and virtualization engine to which
+ <code>@conn</code> is connected. One can test it using <code>virsh</code>
+ command line tool command '<code>capabilities</code>', it dumps the XML
+ associated to the current connection. </p>
+
+ <p>As can be seen seen in the <a href="#elementExamples">example</a>, the
+ capabilities XML consists of the <code>capabilities</code> element which
+ have exactly one <code>host</code> child element to report information on
+ host capabilities, and zero or more <code>guest</code> element to express
+ the set of architectures the host can run at the moment.</p>
+
+
+ <h3><a name="elementHost">Host capabilities</a></h3>
+
+ <p>The <code><host/></code> element consists of the following child
+ elements:</p>
+ <dl>
+ <dt><code>uuid</code></dt>
+ <dd>The host UUID.</dd>
+
+ <dt><code>cpu</code></dt>
+ <dd>The host CPU architecture and features.</dd>
+
+ <dt><code>power_management</code></dt>
+ <dd>whether host is capable of memory suspend, disk hibernation, or
+ hybrid suspend.</dd>
+
+ <dt><code>migration</code></dt>
+ <dd>This element expose information on hypervisor's migration
+ capabilities, like live migration, supported URI transports, and so
+ on.</dd>
+
+ <dt><code>topology</code></dt>
+ <dd>This element embodies the host internal topology. Management
+ applications may want to learn this information when orchestrating new
+ guests - e.g. due to reduce inter-NUMA node transfers.</dd>
+
+ <dt><code>secmodel</code></dt>
+ <dd>To find out default security labels for different security models you
+ need to parse this element. In contrast with the former elements, this is
+ be repeated for each security model the libvirt daemon currently
+ supports.</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+
+ <h3><a name="elementGuest">Guest capabilities</a></h3>
+
+ <p>While the <a href="#elementHost">previous section</a> aims at host
+ capabilities, this one focus on domain's ones. The
+ <code><guest/></code> element will typically wrap up the following
+ elements:</p>
+
+ <dl>
+ <dt><code>os_type</code></dt>
+ <dd>This express what kind of operating system is the hypervisor able
+ to run. Possible values are:
+ <dl>
+ <dt>xen</dt>
+ <dd>for XEN</dd>
+
+ <dt>linux</dt>
+ <dd>legacy alias for <code>xen</code></dd>
+
+ <dt>hvm</dt>
+ <dd>Unmodified operating system</dd>
+
+ <dt>exe</dt>
+ <dd>Container based virtualization</dd>
+
+ <dt>uml</dt>
+ <dd>User Mode Linux</dd>
+ </dl>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><code>arch</code></dt>
+ <dd>This element brings some information on supported guest architecture.</dd>
+
+ <dt><code>features</code></dt>
+ <dd>This optional element encases possible features that can be used
+ with a guest of described type.</dd>
+ </dl>
+
+ <h3><a name="elementExamples">Examples</a></h3>
+
+ <p>For example in the case of a 64 bits
+ machine with hardware virtualization capabilities enabled in the chip and
+ BIOS you will see:</p>
+
+ <pre><capabilities>
<span style="color: #E50000"><host>
<cpu>
<arch>x86_64</arch>
@@ -67,30 +155,26 @@ BIOS you will see</p>
</guest></span>
...
</capabilities></pre>
- <p>The first block (in red) indicates the host hardware
- capabilities, such as CPU properties and the power
- management features of the host platform. CPU models are
- shown as additional features relative to the closest base
- model, within a feature block (the block is similar to what
- you will find in a Xen fully virtualized domain
- description). Further, the power management features
- supported by the host are shown, such as Suspend-to-RAM (S3),
- Suspend-to-Disk (S4) and Hybrid-Suspend (a combination of S3
- and S4). In case the host does not support
- any such feature, then an empty <power_management/>
- tag will be shown. </p>
- <p>The second block (in blue) indicates the paravirtualization
- support of the Xen support, you will see the os_type of xen
- to indicate a paravirtual kernel, then architecture
- information and potential features.</p>
- <p>The third block (in green) gives similar information but
- when running a 32 bit OS fully virtualized with Xen using
- the hvm support.</p>
- <p>This section is likely to be updated and augmented in the
- future,
- see <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-March/msg00215.html";>the
- discussion</a> which led to the capabilities format in the
- mailing-list archives.</p>
+ <p>The first block (in red) indicates the host hardware capabilities, such
+ as CPU properties and the power management features of the host platform.
+ CPU models are shown as additional features relative to the closest base
+ model, within a feature block (the block is similar to what you will find
+ in a Xen fully virtualized domain description). Further, the power
+ management features supported by the host are shown, such as Suspend-to-RAM
+ (S3), Suspend-to-Disk (S4) and Hybrid-Suspend (a combination of S3 and S4).
+ In case the host does not support any such feature, then an empty
+ <power_management/> tag will be shown. </p>
+ <p>The second block (in blue) indicates the paravirtualization support of
+ the Xen support, you will see the os_type of xen to indicate a paravirtual
+ kernel, then architecture information and potential features.</p>
+
+ <p>The third block (in green) gives similar information but when running a
+ 32 bit OS fully virtualized with Xen using the hvm support.</p>
+
+ <p>This section is likely to be updated and augmented in the future, see <a
+ href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-March/msg00215.html";>the
+ discussion</a> which led to the capabilities format in the mailing-list
+ archives.</p>
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