VIRT-XML-VALIDATE.IN

Section: Virtualization Support (1)
Updated: 2011-06-10
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NAME

  virt-xml-validate - validate libvirt XML files against a schema

 

SYNOPSIS

  virt-xml-validate XML-FILE [SCHEMA-NAME]

 

DESCRIPTION

Validates a libvirt XML for compliance with the published schema. The first compulsory argument is the path to the XML file to be validated. The optional second argument is the name of the schema to validate against. If omitted, the schema name will be inferred from the name of the root element in the XML document.

Valid schema names currently include

domain
The schema for the XML format used by guest domains configuration
network
The schema for the XML format used by virtual network configuration
storagepool
The schema for the XML format used by storage pool configuration
storagevol
The schema for the XML format used by storage volume descriptions
nodedev
The schema for the XML format used by node device descriptions
capability
The schema for the XML format used to declare driver capabilities
 

EXIT STATUS

Upon successful validation, an exit status of 0 will be set. Upon failure a non-zero status will be set.  

AUTHOR

Daniel P.Berrange  

BUGS

Report any bugs discovered to the libvirt community via the mailing list "http://libvirt.org/contact.html" or bug tracker "http://libvirt.org/bugs.html". Alternatively report bugs to your software distributor / vendor.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2009-2010 by Red Hat, Inc. Copyright (C) 2009 by Daniel P. Berrange  

LICENSE

virt-xml-validate is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2+. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE  

SEE ALSO

virsh(1), online XML format descriptions "http://libvirt.org/format.html"


 

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LICENSE
SEE ALSO

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