[Libvir] Documentation on the xml format

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Fri Dec 21 13:51:22 UTC 2007


Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> I am looking for documentation on the xml-format for virtlib. The
> information on the website is handy but not nearly complete enough. I am
> looking for documentation that will tell me what options are available
> to use in the xml and what things will be done automatically by the
> libraries. If I thus leave out the uuid will it create it automatically?
> etc.

Unfortunately this level of detail is only in the source, and usually 
depends on the backend (Xen/QEMU/whatever).

If you'd like to help document these sorts of issues, then we'd welcome 
patches.  The source for this page is in libvirt CVS doc/ directory.

http://libvirt.org/format.html

Rich.

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