[libvirt] DTD or Schema for VM definition file

Laine Stump laine at laine.org
Thu May 30 20:44:21 UTC 2013


On 05/30/2013 03:48 PM, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Is there any DTD or Schema for the VM's XML file?  I found an
> interesting doc called "Domain XML Format", on the libvirt website,
> which explains all the elements but didn't find any reference to a
> Schema or DTD.

Look in the libvirt source under docs/schemas. The toplevel file for a
virtual machine (aka "domain") is domain.rng. In practice there is some
validation that can't be done in the RNG, but it's a fairly reasonable
approximation :-)




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