XML Format
Objects in the libvirt API are configured using XML documents to allow for ease of extension in future releases. Each XML document has an associated Relax-NG schema that can be used to validate documents prior to usage.
- Domains
- Networks
- Network filtering
- Network ports
- Storage
- Storage encryption
- Capabilities
- Domain capabilities
- Storage Pool capabilities
- Node devices
- Secrets
- Snapshots
- Checkpoints
- Virtuozzo backups
Command line validation
The virt-xml-validate tool provides a simple command line
for validating XML documents prior to giving them to libvirt. It uses
the locally instaled RNG schema documents. It will auto-detect which
schema to use for validation based on the name of the top level element
in the input document. Thus it merely requires the XML document filename
to be passed on the command line
$ virt-xml-validate /path/to/XML/file