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

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

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