QEMU QMP Reference Manual

Table of Contents

QEMU QMP reference


1 API Reference

1.1 Introduction

This document describes all commands currently supported by QMP.

Most of the time their usage is exactly the same as in the user Monitor, this means that any other document which also describe commands (the manpage, QEMU’s manual, etc) can and should be consulted.

QMP has two types of commands: regular and query commands. Regular commands usually change the Virtual Machine’s state someway, while query commands just return information. The sections below are divided accordingly.

It’s important to observe that all communication examples are formatted in a reader-friendly way, so that they’re easier to understand. However, in real protocol usage, they’re emitted as a single line.

Also, the following notation is used to denote data flow:

Example:

-> data issued by the Client
<- Server data response

Please, refer to the QMP specification (docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt) for detailed information on the Server command and response formats.

1.2 Stability Considerations

The current QMP command set (described in this file) may be useful for a number of use cases, however it’s limited and several commands have bad defined semantics, specially with regard to command completion.

These problems are going to be solved incrementally in the next QEMU releases and we’re going to establish a deprecation policy for badly defined commands.

If you’re planning to adopt QMP, please observe the following:

  1. The deprecation policy will take effect and be documented soon, please check the documentation of each used command as soon as a new release of QEMU is available
  2. DO NOT rely on anything which is not explicit documented
  3. Errors, in special, are not documented. Applications should NOT check for specific errors classes or data (it’s strongly recommended to only check for the "error" key)

1.3 Common data types

Enum: QapiErrorClass

QEMU error classes

Values:

GenericError

this is used for errors that don’t require a specific error class. This should be the default case for most errors

CommandNotFound

the requested command has not been found

DeviceNotActive

a device has failed to be become active

DeviceNotFound

the requested device has not been found

KVMMissingCap

the requested operation can’t be fulfilled because a required KVM capability is missing

Since: 1.2

Enum: IoOperationType

An enumeration of the I/O operation types

Values:

read

read operation

write

write operation

Since: 2.1

Enum: OnOffAuto

An enumeration of three options: on, off, and auto

Values:

auto

QEMU selects the value between on and off

on

Enabled

off

Disabled

Since: 2.2

Enum: OnOffSplit

An enumeration of three values: on, off, and split

Values:

on

Enabled

off

Disabled

split

Mixed

Since: 2.6

Object: String

A fat type wrapping ’str’, to be embedded in lists.

Members:

str: string

Not documented

Since: 1.2

Alternate: StrOrNull

This is a string value or the explicit lack of a string (null pointer in C). Intended for cases when ’optional absent’ already has a different meaning.

Members:

s: string

the string value

n: null

no string value

Since: 2.10

Enum: OffAutoPCIBAR

An enumeration of options for specifying a PCI BAR

Values:

off

The specified feature is disabled

auto

The PCI BAR for the feature is automatically selected

bar0

PCI BAR0 is used for the feature

bar1

PCI BAR1 is used for the feature

bar2

PCI BAR2 is used for the feature

bar3

PCI BAR3 is used for the feature

bar4

PCI BAR4 is used for the feature

bar5

PCI BAR5 is used for the feature

Since: 2.12

Enum: PCIELinkSpeed

An enumeration of PCIe link speeds in units of GT/s

Values:

2_5

2.5GT/s

5

5.0GT/s

8

8.0GT/s

16

16.0GT/s

Since: 4.0

Enum: PCIELinkWidth

An enumeration of PCIe link width

Values:

1

x1

2

x2

4

x4

8

x8

12

x12

16

x16

32

x32

Since: 4.0

Enum: SysEmuTarget

The comprehensive enumeration of QEMU system emulation ("softmmu") targets. Run "./configure –help" in the project root directory, and look for the *-softmmu targets near the "–target-list" option. The individual target constants are not documented here, for the time being.

Values:

aarch64

Not documented

alpha

Not documented

arm

Not documented

cris

Not documented

hppa

Not documented

i386

Not documented

lm32

Not documented

m68k

Not documented

microblaze

Not documented

microblazeel

Not documented

mips

Not documented

mips64

Not documented

mips64el

Not documented

mipsel

Not documented

moxie

Not documented

nios2

Not documented

or1k

Not documented

ppc

Not documented

ppc64

Not documented

riscv32

Not documented

riscv64

Not documented

s390x

Not documented

sh4

Not documented

sh4eb

Not documented

sparc

Not documented

sparc64

Not documented

tricore

Not documented

unicore32

Not documented

x86_64

Not documented

xtensa

Not documented

xtensaeb

Not documented

Notes: The resulting QMP strings can be appended to the "qemu-system-" prefix to produce the corresponding QEMU executable name. This is true even for "qemu-system-x86_64".

ppcemb: dropped in 3.1

Since: 3.0

1.4 Socket data types

Enum: NetworkAddressFamily

The network address family

Values:

ipv4

IPV4 family

ipv6

IPV6 family

unix

unix socket

vsock

vsock family (since 2.8)

unknown

otherwise

Since: 2.1

Object: InetSocketAddressBase

Members:

host: string

host part of the address

port: string

port part of the address

Object: InetSocketAddress

Captures a socket address or address range in the Internet namespace.

Members:

numeric: boolean (optional)

true if the host/port are guaranteed to be numeric, false if name resolution should be attempted. Defaults to false. (Since 2.9)

to: int (optional)

If present, this is range of possible addresses, with port between port and to.

ipv4: boolean (optional)

whether to accept IPv4 addresses, default try both IPv4 and IPv6

ipv6: boolean (optional)

whether to accept IPv6 addresses, default try both IPv4 and IPv6

The members of InetSocketAddressBase

Since: 1.3

Object: UnixSocketAddress

Captures a socket address in the local ("Unix socket") namespace.

Members:

path: string

filesystem path to use

Since: 1.3

Object: VsockSocketAddress

Captures a socket address in the vsock namespace.

Members:

cid: string

unique host identifier

port: string

port

Note: string types are used to allow for possible future hostname or service resolution support.

Since: 2.8

Object: SocketAddressLegacy

Captures the address of a socket, which could also be a named file descriptor

Members:

type

One of "inet", "unix", "vsock", "fd"

data: InetSocketAddress when type is "inet"
data: UnixSocketAddress when type is "unix"
data: VsockSocketAddress when type is "vsock"
data: String when type is "fd"

Note: This type is deprecated in favor of SocketAddress. The difference between SocketAddressLegacy and SocketAddress is that the latter is a flat union rather than a simple union. Flat is nicer because it avoids nesting on the wire, i.e. that form has fewer {}.

Since: 1.3

Enum: SocketAddressType

Available SocketAddress types

Values:

inet

Internet address

unix

Unix domain socket

vsock

VMCI address

fd

decimal is for file descriptor number, otherwise a file descriptor name. Named file descriptors are permitted in monitor commands, in combination with the ’getfd’ command. Decimal file descriptors are permitted at startup or other contexts where no monitor context is active.

Since: 2.9

Object: SocketAddress

Captures the address of a socket, which could also be a named file descriptor

Members:

type: SocketAddressType

Transport type

The members of InetSocketAddress when type is "inet"
The members of UnixSocketAddress when type is "unix"
The members of VsockSocketAddress when type is "vsock"
The members of String when type is "fd"

Since: 2.9

1.5 VM run state

Enum: RunState

An enumeration of VM run states.

Values:

debug

QEMU is running on a debugger

finish-migrate

guest is paused to finish the migration process

inmigrate

guest is paused waiting for an incoming migration. Note that this state does not tell whether the machine will start at the end of the migration. This depends on the command-line -S option and any invocation of ’stop’ or ’cont’ that has happened since QEMU was started.

internal-error

An internal error that prevents further guest execution has occurred

io-error

the last IOP has failed and the device is configured to pause on I/O errors

paused

guest has been paused via the ’stop’ command

postmigrate

guest is paused following a successful ’migrate’

prelaunch

QEMU was started with -S and guest has not started

restore-vm

guest is paused to restore VM state

running

guest is actively running

save-vm

guest is paused to save the VM state

shutdown

guest is shut down (and -no-shutdown is in use)

suspended

guest is suspended (ACPI S3)

watchdog

the watchdog action is configured to pause and has been triggered

guest-panicked

guest has been panicked as a result of guest OS panic

colo

guest is paused to save/restore VM state under colo checkpoint, VM can not get into this state unless colo capability is enabled for migration. (since 2.8)

preconfig

QEMU is paused before board specific init callback is executed. The state is reachable only if the –preconfig CLI option is used. (Since 3.0)

Enum: ShutdownCause

An enumeration of reasons for a Shutdown.

Values:

none

No shutdown request pending

host-error

An error prevents further use of guest

host-qmp-quit

Reaction to the QMP command ’quit’

host-qmp-system-reset

Reaction to the QMP command ’system_reset’

host-signal

Reaction to a signal, such as SIGINT

host-ui

Reaction to a UI event, like window close

guest-shutdown

Guest shutdown/suspend request, via ACPI or other hardware-specific means

guest-reset

Guest reset request, and command line turns that into a shutdown

guest-panic

Guest panicked, and command line turns that into a shutdown

subsystem-reset

Partial guest reset that does not trigger QMP events and ignores –no-reboot. This is useful for sanitizing hypercalls on s390 that are used during kexec/kdump/boot

Object: StatusInfo

Information about VCPU run state

Members:

running: boolean

true if all VCPUs are runnable, false if not runnable

singlestep: boolean

true if VCPUs are in single-step mode

status: RunState

the virtual machine RunState

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: singlestep is enabled through the GDB stub

Command: query-status

Query the run status of all VCPUs

Returns: StatusInfo reflecting all VCPUs

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-status" }
<- { "return": { "running": true,
                 "singlestep": false,
                 "status": "running" } }
Event: SHUTDOWN

Emitted when the virtual machine has shut down, indicating that qemu is about to exit.

Arguments:

guest: boolean

If true, the shutdown was triggered by a guest request (such as a guest-initiated ACPI shutdown request or other hardware-specific action) rather than a host request (such as sending qemu a SIGINT). (since 2.10)

reason: ShutdownCause

The ShutdownCause which resulted in the SHUTDOWN. (since 4.0)

Note: If the command-line option "-no-shutdown" has been specified, qemu will not exit, and a STOP event will eventually follow the SHUTDOWN event

Since: 0.12.0

Example:

<- { "event": "SHUTDOWN", "data": { "guest": true },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267040730, "microseconds": 682951 } }
Event: POWERDOWN

Emitted when the virtual machine is powered down through the power control system, such as via ACPI.

Since: 0.12.0

Example:

<- { "event": "POWERDOWN",
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267040730, "microseconds": 682951 } }
Event: RESET

Emitted when the virtual machine is reset

Arguments:

guest: boolean

If true, the reset was triggered by a guest request (such as a guest-initiated ACPI reboot request or other hardware-specific action) rather than a host request (such as the QMP command system_reset). (since 2.10)

reason: ShutdownCause

The ShutdownCause of the RESET. (since 4.0)

Since: 0.12.0

Example:

<- { "event": "RESET", "data": { "guest": false },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267041653, "microseconds": 9518 } }
Event: STOP

Emitted when the virtual machine is stopped

Since: 0.12.0

Example:

<- { "event": "STOP",
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267041730, "microseconds": 281295 } }
Event: RESUME

Emitted when the virtual machine resumes execution

Since: 0.12.0

Example:

<- { "event": "RESUME",
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1271770767, "microseconds": 582542 } }
Event: SUSPEND

Emitted when guest enters a hardware suspension state, for example, S3 state, which is sometimes called standby state

Since: 1.1

Example:

<- { "event": "SUSPEND",
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1344456160, "microseconds": 309119 } }
Event: SUSPEND_DISK

Emitted when guest enters a hardware suspension state with data saved on disk, for example, S4 state, which is sometimes called hibernate state

Note: QEMU shuts down (similar to event SHUTDOWN) when entering this state

Since: 1.2

Example:

<-   { "event": "SUSPEND_DISK",
       "timestamp": { "seconds": 1344456160, "microseconds": 309119 } }
Event: WAKEUP

Emitted when the guest has woken up from suspend state and is running

Since: 1.1

Example:

<- { "event": "WAKEUP",
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1344522075, "microseconds": 745528 } }
Event: WATCHDOG

Emitted when the watchdog device’s timer is expired

Arguments:

action: WatchdogAction

action that has been taken

Note: If action is "reset", "shutdown", or "pause" the WATCHDOG event is followed respectively by the RESET, SHUTDOWN, or STOP events

Note: This event is rate-limited.

Since: 0.13.0

Example:

<- { "event": "WATCHDOG",
     "data": { "action": "reset" },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267061043, "microseconds": 959568 } }
Enum: WatchdogAction

An enumeration of the actions taken when the watchdog device’s timer is expired

Values:

reset

system resets

shutdown

system shutdown, note that it is similar to powerdown, which tries to set to system status and notify guest

poweroff

system poweroff, the emulator program exits

pause

system pauses, similar to stop

debug

system enters debug state

none

nothing is done

inject-nmi

a non-maskable interrupt is injected into the first VCPU (all VCPUS on x86) (since 2.4)

Since: 2.1

Command: watchdog-set-action

Set watchdog action

Arguments:

action: WatchdogAction

Not documented

Since: 2.11

Event: GUEST_PANICKED

Emitted when guest OS panic is detected

Arguments:

action: GuestPanicAction

action that has been taken, currently always "pause"

info: GuestPanicInformation (optional)

information about a panic (since 2.9)

Since: 1.5

Example:

<- { "event": "GUEST_PANICKED",
     "data": { "action": "pause" } }
Enum: GuestPanicAction

An enumeration of the actions taken when guest OS panic is detected

Values:

pause

system pauses

poweroff

Not documented

Since: 2.1 (poweroff since 2.8)

Enum: GuestPanicInformationType

An enumeration of the guest panic information types

Values:

hyper-v

hyper-v guest panic information type

s390

s390 guest panic information type (Since: 2.12)

Since: 2.9

Object: GuestPanicInformation

Information about a guest panic

Members:

type: GuestPanicInformationType

Crash type that defines the hypervisor specific information

The members of GuestPanicInformationHyperV when type is "hyper-v"
The members of GuestPanicInformationS390 when type is "s390"

Since: 2.9

Object: GuestPanicInformationHyperV

Hyper-V specific guest panic information (HV crash MSRs)

Members:

arg1: int

Not documented

arg2: int

Not documented

arg3: int

Not documented

arg4: int

Not documented

arg5: int

Not documented

Since: 2.9

Enum: S390CrashReason

Reason why the CPU is in a crashed state.

Values:

unknown

no crash reason was set

disabled-wait

the CPU has entered a disabled wait state

extint-loop

clock comparator or cpu timer interrupt with new PSW enabled for external interrupts

pgmint-loop

program interrupt with BAD new PSW

opint-loop

operation exception interrupt with invalid code at the program interrupt new PSW

Since: 2.12

Object: GuestPanicInformationS390

S390 specific guest panic information (PSW)

Members:

core: int

core id of the CPU that crashed

psw-mask: int

control fields of guest PSW

psw-addr: int

guest instruction address

reason: S390CrashReason

guest crash reason

Since: 2.12

1.6 Cryptography

Enum: QCryptoTLSCredsEndpoint

The type of network endpoint that will be using the credentials. Most types of credential require different setup / structures depending on whether they will be used in a server versus a client.

Values:

client

the network endpoint is acting as the client

server

the network endpoint is acting as the server

Since: 2.5

Enum: QCryptoSecretFormat

The data format that the secret is provided in

Values:

raw

raw bytes. When encoded in JSON only valid UTF-8 sequences can be used

base64

arbitrary base64 encoded binary data

Since: 2.6

Enum: QCryptoHashAlgorithm

The supported algorithms for computing content digests

Values:

md5

MD5. Should not be used in any new code, legacy compat only

sha1

SHA-1. Should not be used in any new code, legacy compat only

sha224

SHA-224. (since 2.7)

sha256

SHA-256. Current recommended strong hash.

sha384

SHA-384. (since 2.7)

sha512

SHA-512. (since 2.7)

ripemd160

RIPEMD-160. (since 2.7)

Since: 2.6

Enum: QCryptoCipherAlgorithm

The supported algorithms for content encryption ciphers

Values:

aes-128

AES with 128 bit / 16 byte keys

aes-192

AES with 192 bit / 24 byte keys

aes-256

AES with 256 bit / 32 byte keys

des-rfb

RFB specific variant of single DES. Do not use except in VNC.

3des

3DES(EDE) with 192 bit / 24 byte keys (since 2.9)

cast5-128

Cast5 with 128 bit / 16 byte keys

serpent-128

Serpent with 128 bit / 16 byte keys

serpent-192

Serpent with 192 bit / 24 byte keys

serpent-256

Serpent with 256 bit / 32 byte keys

twofish-128

Twofish with 128 bit / 16 byte keys

twofish-192

Twofish with 192 bit / 24 byte keys

twofish-256

Twofish with 256 bit / 32 byte keys

Since: 2.6

Enum: QCryptoCipherMode

The supported modes for content encryption ciphers

Values:

ecb

Electronic Code Book

cbc

Cipher Block Chaining

xts

XEX with tweaked code book and ciphertext stealing

ctr

Counter (Since 2.8)

Since: 2.6

Enum: QCryptoIVGenAlgorithm

The supported algorithms for generating initialization vectors for full disk encryption. The ’plain’ generator should not be used for disks with sector numbers larger than 2^32, except where compatibility with pre-existing Linux dm-crypt volumes is required.

Values:

plain

64-bit sector number truncated to 32-bits

plain64

64-bit sector number

essiv

64-bit sector number encrypted with a hash of the encryption key

Since: 2.6

Enum: QCryptoBlockFormat

The supported full disk encryption formats

Values:

qcow

QCow/QCow2 built-in AES-CBC encryption. Use only for liberating data from old images.

luks

LUKS encryption format. Recommended for new images

Since: 2.6

Object: QCryptoBlockOptionsBase

The common options that apply to all full disk encryption formats

Members:

format: QCryptoBlockFormat

the encryption format

Since: 2.6

Object: QCryptoBlockOptionsQCow

The options that apply to QCow/QCow2 AES-CBC encryption format

Members:

key-secret: string (optional)

the ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing the decryption key. Mandatory except when probing image for metadata only.

Since: 2.6

Object: QCryptoBlockOptionsLUKS

The options that apply to LUKS encryption format

Members:

key-secret: string (optional)

the ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing the decryption key. Mandatory except when probing image for metadata only.

Since: 2.6

Object: QCryptoBlockCreateOptionsLUKS

The options that apply to LUKS encryption format initialization

Members:

cipher-alg: QCryptoCipherAlgorithm (optional)

the cipher algorithm for data encryption Currently defaults to ’aes-256’.

cipher-mode: QCryptoCipherMode (optional)

the cipher mode for data encryption Currently defaults to ’xts’

ivgen-alg: QCryptoIVGenAlgorithm (optional)

the initialization vector generator Currently defaults to ’plain64’

ivgen-hash-alg: QCryptoHashAlgorithm (optional)

the initialization vector generator hash Currently defaults to ’sha256’

hash-alg: QCryptoHashAlgorithm (optional)

the master key hash algorithm Currently defaults to ’sha256’

iter-time: int (optional)

number of milliseconds to spend in PBKDF passphrase processing. Currently defaults to 2000. (since 2.8)

The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsLUKS

Since: 2.6

Object: QCryptoBlockOpenOptions

The options that are available for all encryption formats when opening an existing volume

Members:

The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsBase
The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsQCow when format is "qcow"
The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsLUKS when format is "luks"

Since: 2.6

Object: QCryptoBlockCreateOptions

The options that are available for all encryption formats when initializing a new volume

Members:

The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsBase
The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsQCow when format is "qcow"
The members of QCryptoBlockCreateOptionsLUKS when format is "luks"

Since: 2.6

Object: QCryptoBlockInfoBase

The common information that applies to all full disk encryption formats

Members:

format: QCryptoBlockFormat

the encryption format

Since: 2.7

Object: QCryptoBlockInfoLUKSSlot

Information about the LUKS block encryption key slot options

Members:

active: boolean

whether the key slot is currently in use

key-offset: int

offset to the key material in bytes

iters: int (optional)

number of PBKDF2 iterations for key material

stripes: int (optional)

number of stripes for splitting key material

Since: 2.7

Object: QCryptoBlockInfoLUKS

Information about the LUKS block encryption options

Members:

cipher-alg: QCryptoCipherAlgorithm

the cipher algorithm for data encryption

cipher-mode: QCryptoCipherMode

the cipher mode for data encryption

ivgen-alg: QCryptoIVGenAlgorithm

the initialization vector generator

ivgen-hash-alg: QCryptoHashAlgorithm (optional)

the initialization vector generator hash

hash-alg: QCryptoHashAlgorithm

the master key hash algorithm

payload-offset: int

offset to the payload data in bytes

master-key-iters: int

number of PBKDF2 iterations for key material

uuid: string

unique identifier for the volume

slots: array of QCryptoBlockInfoLUKSSlot

information about each key slot

Since: 2.7

Object: QCryptoBlockInfo

Information about the block encryption options

Members:

The members of QCryptoBlockInfoBase
The members of QCryptoBlockInfoLUKS when format is "luks"

Since: 2.7

1.7 Block devices

1.7.1 Block core (VM unrelated)

1.7.2 Background jobs

Enum: JobType

Type of a background job.

Values:

commit

block commit job type, see "block-commit"

stream

block stream job type, see "block-stream"

mirror

drive mirror job type, see "drive-mirror"

backup

drive backup job type, see "drive-backup"

create

image creation job type, see "blockdev-create" (since 3.0)

Since: 1.7

Enum: JobStatus

Indicates the present state of a given job in its lifetime.

Values:

undefined

Erroneous, default state. Should not ever be visible.

created

The job has been created, but not yet started.

running

The job is currently running.

paused

The job is running, but paused. The pause may be requested by either the QMP user or by internal processes.

ready

The job is running, but is ready for the user to signal completion. This is used for long-running jobs like mirror that are designed to run indefinitely.

standby

The job is ready, but paused. This is nearly identical to paused. The job may return to ready or otherwise be canceled.

waiting

The job is waiting for other jobs in the transaction to converge to the waiting state. This status will likely not be visible for the last job in a transaction.

pending

The job has finished its work, but has finalization steps that it needs to make prior to completing. These changes will require manual intervention via job-finalize if auto-finalize was set to false. These pending changes may still fail.

aborting

The job is in the process of being aborted, and will finish with an error. The job will afterwards report that it is concluded. This status may not be visible to the management process.

concluded

The job has finished all work. If auto-dismiss was set to false, the job will remain in the query list until it is dismissed via job-dismiss.

null

The job is in the process of being dismantled. This state should not ever be visible externally.

Since: 2.12

Enum: JobVerb

Represents command verbs that can be applied to a job.

Values:

cancel

see job-cancel

pause

see job-pause

resume

see job-resume

set-speed

see block-job-set-speed

complete

see job-complete

dismiss

see job-dismiss

finalize

see job-finalize

Since: 2.12

Event: JOB_STATUS_CHANGE

Emitted when a job transitions to a different status.

Arguments:

id: string

The job identifier

status: JobStatus

The new job status

Since: 3.0

Command: job-pause

Pause an active job.

This command returns immediately after marking the active job for pausing. Pausing an already paused job is an error.

The job will pause as soon as possible, which means transitioning into the PAUSED state if it was RUNNING, or into STANDBY if it was READY. The corresponding JOB_STATUS_CHANGE event will be emitted.

Cancelling a paused job automatically resumes it.

Arguments:

id: string

The job identifier.

Since: 3.0

Command: job-resume

Resume a paused job.

This command returns immediately after resuming a paused job. Resuming an already running job is an error.

id : The job identifier.

Arguments:

id: string

Not documented

Since: 3.0

Command: job-cancel

Instruct an active background job to cancel at the next opportunity. This command returns immediately after marking the active job for cancellation.

The job will cancel as soon as possible and then emit a JOB_STATUS_CHANGE event. Usually, the status will change to ABORTING, but it is possible that a job successfully completes (e.g. because it was almost done and there was no opportunity to cancel earlier than completing the job) and transitions to PENDING instead.

Arguments:

id: string

The job identifier.

Since: 3.0

Command: job-complete

Manually trigger completion of an active job in the READY state.

Arguments:

id: string

The job identifier.

Since: 3.0

Command: job-dismiss

Deletes a job that is in the CONCLUDED state. This command only needs to be run explicitly for jobs that don’t have automatic dismiss enabled.

This command will refuse to operate on any job that has not yet reached its terminal state, JOB_STATUS_CONCLUDED. For jobs that make use of JOB_READY event, job-cancel or job-complete will still need to be used as appropriate.

Arguments:

id: string

The job identifier.

Since: 3.0

Command: job-finalize

Instructs all jobs in a transaction (or a single job if it is not part of any transaction) to finalize any graph changes and do any necessary cleanup. This command requires that all involved jobs are in the PENDING state.

For jobs in a transaction, instructing one job to finalize will force ALL jobs in the transaction to finalize, so it is only necessary to instruct a single member job to finalize.

Arguments:

id: string

The identifier of any job in the transaction, or of a job that is not part of any transaction.

Since: 3.0

Object: JobInfo

Information about a job.

Members:

id: string

The job identifier

type: JobType

The kind of job that is being performed

status: JobStatus

Current job state/status

current-progress: int

Progress made until now. The unit is arbitrary and the value can only meaningfully be used for the ratio of current-progress to total-progress. The value is monotonically increasing.

total-progress: int

Estimated current-progress value at the completion of the job. This value can arbitrarily change while the job is running, in both directions.

error: string (optional)

If this field is present, the job failed; if it is still missing in the CONCLUDED state, this indicates successful completion.

The value is a human-readable error message to describe the reason for the job failure. It should not be parsed by applications.

Since: 3.0

Command: query-jobs

Return information about jobs.

Returns: a list with a JobInfo for each active job

Since: 3.0

Object: SnapshotInfo

Members:

id: string

unique snapshot id

name: string

user chosen name

vm-state-size: int

size of the VM state

date-sec: int

UTC date of the snapshot in seconds

date-nsec: int

fractional part in nano seconds to be used with date-sec

vm-clock-sec: int

VM clock relative to boot in seconds

vm-clock-nsec: int

fractional part in nano seconds to be used with vm-clock-sec

Since: 1.3

Object: ImageInfoSpecificQCow2EncryptionBase

Members:

format: BlockdevQcow2EncryptionFormat

The encryption format

Since: 2.10

Object: ImageInfoSpecificQCow2Encryption

Members:

The members of ImageInfoSpecificQCow2EncryptionBase
The members of QCryptoBlockInfoLUKS when format is "luks"

Since: 2.10

Object: ImageInfoSpecificQCow2

Members:

compat: string

compatibility level

data-file: string (optional)

the filename of the external data file that is stored in the image and used as a default for opening the image (since: 4.0)

data-file-raw: boolean (optional)

True if the external data file must stay valid as a standalone (read-only) raw image without looking at qcow2 metadata (since: 4.0)

lazy-refcounts: boolean (optional)

on or off; only valid for compat >= 1.1

corrupt: boolean (optional)

true if the image has been marked corrupt; only valid for compat >= 1.1 (since 2.2)

refcount-bits: int

width of a refcount entry in bits (since 2.3)

encrypt: ImageInfoSpecificQCow2Encryption (optional)

details about encryption parameters; only set if image is encrypted (since 2.10)

bitmaps: array of Qcow2BitmapInfo (optional)

A list of qcow2 bitmap details (since 4.0)

Since: 1.7

Object: ImageInfoSpecificVmdk

Members:

create-type: string

The create type of VMDK image

cid: int

Content id of image

parent-cid: int

Parent VMDK image’s cid

extents: array of ImageInfo

List of extent files

Since: 1.7

Object: ImageInfoSpecific

A discriminated record of image format specific information structures.

Members:

type

One of "qcow2", "vmdk", "luks"

data: ImageInfoSpecificQCow2 when type is "qcow2"
data: ImageInfoSpecificVmdk when type is "vmdk"
data: QCryptoBlockInfoLUKS when type is "luks"

Since: 1.7

Object: ImageInfo

Information about a QEMU image file

Members:

filename: string

name of the image file

format: string

format of the image file

virtual-size: int

maximum capacity in bytes of the image

actual-size: int (optional)

actual size on disk in bytes of the image

dirty-flag: boolean (optional)

true if image is not cleanly closed

cluster-size: int (optional)

size of a cluster in bytes

encrypted: boolean (optional)

true if the image is encrypted

compressed: boolean (optional)

true if the image is compressed (Since 1.7)

backing-filename: string (optional)

name of the backing file

full-backing-filename: string (optional)

full path of the backing file

backing-filename-format: string (optional)

the format of the backing file

snapshots: array of SnapshotInfo (optional)

list of VM snapshots

backing-image: ImageInfo (optional)

info of the backing image (since 1.6)

format-specific: ImageInfoSpecific (optional)

structure supplying additional format-specific information (since 1.7)

Since: 1.3

Object: ImageCheck

Information about a QEMU image file check

Members:

filename: string

name of the image file checked

format: string

format of the image file checked

check-errors: int

number of unexpected errors occurred during check

image-end-offset: int (optional)

offset (in bytes) where the image ends, this field is present if the driver for the image format supports it

corruptions: int (optional)

number of corruptions found during the check if any

leaks: int (optional)

number of leaks found during the check if any

corruptions-fixed: int (optional)

number of corruptions fixed during the check if any

leaks-fixed: int (optional)

number of leaks fixed during the check if any

total-clusters: int (optional)

total number of clusters, this field is present if the driver for the image format supports it

allocated-clusters: int (optional)

total number of allocated clusters, this field is present if the driver for the image format supports it

fragmented-clusters: int (optional)

total number of fragmented clusters, this field is present if the driver for the image format supports it

compressed-clusters: int (optional)

total number of compressed clusters, this field is present if the driver for the image format supports it

Since: 1.4

Object: MapEntry

Mapping information from a virtual block range to a host file range

Members:

start: int

the start byte of the mapped virtual range

length: int

the number of bytes of the mapped virtual range

data: boolean

whether the mapped range has data

zero: boolean

whether the virtual blocks are zeroed

depth: int

the depth of the mapping

offset: int (optional)

the offset in file that the virtual sectors are mapped to

filename: string (optional)

filename that is referred to by offset

Since: 2.6

Object: BlockdevCacheInfo

Cache mode information for a block device

Members:

writeback: boolean

true if writeback mode is enabled

direct: boolean

true if the host page cache is bypassed (O_DIRECT)

no-flush: boolean

true if flush requests are ignored for the device

Since: 2.3

Object: BlockDeviceInfo

Information about the backing device for a block device.

Members:

file: string

the filename of the backing device

node-name: string (optional)

the name of the block driver node (Since 2.0)

ro: boolean

true if the backing device was open read-only

drv: string

the name of the block format used to open the backing device. As of 0.14.0 this can be: ’blkdebug’, ’bochs’, ’cloop’, ’cow’, ’dmg’, ’file’, ’file’, ’ftp’, ’ftps’, ’host_cdrom’, ’host_device’, ’http’, ’https’, ’luks’, ’nbd’, ’parallels’, ’qcow’, ’qcow2’, ’raw’, ’vdi’, ’vmdk’, ’vpc’, ’vvfat’ 2.2: ’archipelago’ added, ’cow’ dropped 2.3: ’host_floppy’ deprecated 2.5: ’host_floppy’ dropped 2.6: ’luks’ added 2.8: ’replication’ added, ’tftp’ dropped 2.9: ’archipelago’ dropped

backing_file: string (optional)

the name of the backing file (for copy-on-write)

backing_file_depth: int

number of files in the backing file chain (since: 1.2)

encrypted: boolean

true if the backing device is encrypted

encryption_key_missing: boolean

Deprecated; always false

detect_zeroes: BlockdevDetectZeroesOptions

detect and optimize zero writes (Since 2.1)

bps: int

total throughput limit in bytes per second is specified

bps_rd: int

read throughput limit in bytes per second is specified

bps_wr: int

write throughput limit in bytes per second is specified

iops: int

total I/O operations per second is specified

iops_rd: int

read I/O operations per second is specified

iops_wr: int

write I/O operations per second is specified

image: ImageInfo

the info of image used (since: 1.6)

bps_max: int (optional)

total throughput limit during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

bps_rd_max: int (optional)

read throughput limit during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

bps_wr_max: int (optional)

write throughput limit during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

iops_max: int (optional)

total I/O operations per second during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

iops_rd_max: int (optional)

read I/O operations per second during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

iops_wr_max: int (optional)

write I/O operations per second during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

bps_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the bps_max burst period, in seconds. (Since 2.6)

bps_rd_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the bps_rd_max burst period, in seconds. (Since 2.6)

bps_wr_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the bps_wr_max burst period, in seconds. (Since 2.6)

iops_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the iops burst period, in seconds. (Since 2.6)

iops_rd_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the iops_rd_max burst period, in seconds. (Since 2.6)

iops_wr_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the iops_wr_max burst period, in seconds. (Since 2.6)

iops_size: int (optional)

an I/O size in bytes (Since 1.7)

group: string (optional)

throttle group name (Since 2.4)

cache: BlockdevCacheInfo

the cache mode used for the block device (since: 2.3)

write_threshold: int

configured write threshold for the device. 0 if disabled. (Since 2.3)

Since: 0.14.0

Enum: BlockDeviceIoStatus

An enumeration of block device I/O status.

Values:

ok

The last I/O operation has succeeded

failed

The last I/O operation has failed

nospace

The last I/O operation has failed due to a no-space condition

Since: 1.0

Object: BlockDeviceMapEntry

Entry in the metadata map of the device (returned by "qemu-img map")

Members:

start: int

Offset in the image of the first byte described by this entry (in bytes)

length: int

Length of the range described by this entry (in bytes)

depth: int

Number of layers (0 = top image, 1 = top image’s backing file, etc.) before reaching one for which the range is allocated. The value is in the range 0 to the depth of the image chain - 1.

zero: boolean

the sectors in this range read as zeros

data: boolean

reading the image will actually read data from a file (in particular, if offset is present this means that the sectors are not simply preallocated, but contain actual data in raw format)

offset: int (optional)

if present, the image file stores the data for this range in raw format at the given offset.

Since: 1.7

Enum: DirtyBitmapStatus

An enumeration of possible states that a dirty bitmap can report to the user.

Values:

frozen

The bitmap is currently in-use by some operation and is immutable. If the bitmap was active prior to the operation, new writes by the guest are being recorded in a temporary buffer, and will not be lost. Generally, bitmaps are cleared on successful use in an operation and the temporary buffer is committed into the bitmap. On failure, the temporary buffer is merged back into the bitmap without first clearing it. Please refer to the documentation for each bitmap-using operation, See also blockdev-backup, drive-backup.

disabled

The bitmap is not currently recording new writes by the guest. This is requested explicitly via block-dirty-bitmap-disable. It can still be cleared, deleted, or used for backup operations.

active

The bitmap is actively monitoring for new writes, and can be cleared, deleted, or used for backup operations.

locked

The bitmap is currently in-use by some operation and is immutable. If the bitmap was active prior to the operation, it is still recording new writes. If the bitmap was disabled, it is not recording new writes. (Since 2.12)

inconsistent

This is a persistent dirty bitmap that was marked in-use on disk, and is unusable by QEMU. It can only be deleted. Please rely on the inconsistent field in BlockDirtyInfo instead, as the status field is deprecated. (Since 4.0)

Since: 2.4

Object: BlockDirtyInfo

Block dirty bitmap information.

Members:

name: string (optional)

the name of the dirty bitmap (Since 2.4)

count: int

number of dirty bytes according to the dirty bitmap

granularity: int

granularity of the dirty bitmap in bytes (since 1.4)

status: DirtyBitmapStatus

Deprecated in favor of recording and locked. (since 2.4)

recording: boolean

true if the bitmap is recording new writes from the guest. Replaces ‘active‘ and ‘disabled‘ statuses. (since 4.0)

busy: boolean

true if the bitmap is in-use by some operation (NBD or jobs) and cannot be modified via QMP or used by another operation. Replaces ‘locked‘ and ‘frozen‘ statuses. (since 4.0)

persistent: boolean

true if the bitmap was stored on disk, is scheduled to be stored on disk, or both. (since 4.0)

inconsistent: boolean (optional)

true if this is a persistent bitmap that was improperly stored. Implies persistent to be true; recording and busy to be false. This bitmap cannot be used. To remove it, use block-dirty-bitmap-remove. (Since 4.0)

Since: 1.3

Enum: Qcow2BitmapInfoFlags

An enumeration of flags that a bitmap can report to the user.

Values:

in-use

This flag is set by any process actively modifying the qcow2 file, and cleared when the updated bitmap is flushed to the qcow2 image. The presence of this flag in an offline image means that the bitmap was not saved correctly after its last usage, and may contain inconsistent data.

auto

The bitmap must reflect all changes of the virtual disk by any application that would write to this qcow2 file.

Since: 4.0

Object: Qcow2BitmapInfo

Qcow2 bitmap information.

Members:

name: string

the name of the bitmap

granularity: int

granularity of the bitmap in bytes

flags: array of Qcow2BitmapInfoFlags

flags of the bitmap

Since: 4.0

Object: BlockLatencyHistogramInfo

Block latency histogram.

Members:

boundaries: array of int

list of interval boundary values in nanoseconds, all greater than zero and in ascending order. For example, the list [10, 50, 100] produces the following histogram intervals: [0, 10), [10, 50), [50, 100), [100, +inf).

bins: array of int

list of io request counts corresponding to histogram intervals. len(bins) = len(boundaries) + 1 For the example above, bins may be something like [3, 1, 5, 2], and corresponding histogram looks like:

5| * 4| * 3| 2| * 1| +—————— 10 50 100

Since: 4.0

Command: block-latency-histogram-set

Manage read, write and flush latency histograms for the device.

If only id parameter is specified, remove all present latency histograms for the device. Otherwise, add/reset some of (or all) latency histograms.

Arguments:

id: string

The name or QOM path of the guest device.

boundaries: array of int (optional)

list of interval boundary values (see description in BlockLatencyHistogramInfo definition). If specified, all latency histograms are removed, and empty ones created for all io types with intervals corresponding to boundaries (except for io types, for which specific boundaries are set through the following parameters).

boundaries-read: array of int (optional)

list of interval boundary values for read latency histogram. If specified, old read latency histogram is removed, and empty one created with intervals corresponding to boundaries-read. The parameter has higher priority then boundaries.

boundaries-write: array of int (optional)

list of interval boundary values for write latency histogram.

boundaries-flush: array of int (optional)

list of interval boundary values for flush latency histogram.

Returns: error if device is not found or any boundary arrays are invalid.

Since: 4.0

Example:

set new histograms for all io types with intervals
[0, 10), [10, 50), [50, 100), [100, +inf):

-> { "execute": "block-latency-histogram-set",
     "arguments": { "id": "drive0",
                    "boundaries": [10, 50, 100] } }
<- { "return": {} }

Example:

set new histogram only for write, other histograms will remain
not changed (or not created):

-> { "execute": "block-latency-histogram-set",
     "arguments": { "id": "drive0",
                    "boundaries-write": [10, 50, 100] } }
<- { "return": {} }

Example:

set new histograms with the following intervals:
  read, flush: [0, 10), [10, 50), [50, 100), [100, +inf)
  write: [0, 1000), [1000, 5000), [5000, +inf)

-> { "execute": "block-latency-histogram-set",
     "arguments": { "id": "drive0",
                    "boundaries": [10, 50, 100],
                    "boundaries-write": [1000, 5000] } }
<- { "return": {} }

Example:

remove all latency histograms:

-> { "execute": "block-latency-histogram-set",
     "arguments": { "id": "drive0" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: BlockInfo

Block device information. This structure describes a virtual device and the backing device associated with it.

Members:

device: string

The device name associated with the virtual device.

qdev: string (optional)

The qdev ID, or if no ID is assigned, the QOM path of the block device. (since 2.10)

type: string

This field is returned only for compatibility reasons, it should not be used (always returns ’unknown’)

removable: boolean

True if the device supports removable media.

locked: boolean

True if the guest has locked this device from having its media removed

tray_open: boolean (optional)

True if the device’s tray is open (only present if it has a tray)

dirty-bitmaps: array of BlockDirtyInfo (optional)

dirty bitmaps information (only present if the driver has one or more dirty bitmaps) (Since 2.0)

io-status: BlockDeviceIoStatus (optional)

BlockDeviceIoStatus. Only present if the device supports it and the VM is configured to stop on errors (supported device models: virtio-blk, IDE, SCSI except scsi-generic)

inserted: BlockDeviceInfo (optional)

BlockDeviceInfo describing the device if media is present

Since: 0.14.0

Object: BlockMeasureInfo

Image file size calculation information. This structure describes the size requirements for creating a new image file.

The size requirements depend on the new image file format. File size always equals virtual disk size for the ’raw’ format, even for sparse POSIX files. Compact formats such as ’qcow2’ represent unallocated and zero regions efficiently so file size may be smaller than virtual disk size.

The values are upper bounds that are guaranteed to fit the new image file. Subsequent modification, such as internal snapshot or bitmap creation, may require additional space and is not covered here.

Members:

required: int

Size required for a new image file, in bytes.

fully-allocated: int

Image file size, in bytes, once data has been written to all sectors.

Since: 2.10

Command: query-block

Get a list of BlockInfo for all virtual block devices.

Returns: a list of BlockInfo describing each virtual block device. Filter nodes that were created implicitly are skipped over.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-block" }
<- {
      "return":[
         {
            "io-status": "ok",
            "device":"ide0-hd0",
            "locked":false,
            "removable":false,
            "inserted":{
               "ro":false,
               "drv":"qcow2",
               "encrypted":false,
               "file":"disks/test.qcow2",
               "backing_file_depth":1,
               "bps":1000000,
               "bps_rd":0,
               "bps_wr":0,
               "iops":1000000,
               "iops_rd":0,
               "iops_wr":0,
               "bps_max": 8000000,
               "bps_rd_max": 0,
               "bps_wr_max": 0,
               "iops_max": 0,
               "iops_rd_max": 0,
               "iops_wr_max": 0,
               "iops_size": 0,
               "detect_zeroes": "on",
               "write_threshold": 0,
               "image":{
                  "filename":"disks/test.qcow2",
                  "format":"qcow2",
                  "virtual-size":2048000,
                  "backing_file":"base.qcow2",
                  "full-backing-filename":"disks/base.qcow2",
                  "backing-filename-format":"qcow2",
                  "snapshots":[
                     {
                        "id": "1",
                        "name": "snapshot1",
                        "vm-state-size": 0,
                        "date-sec": 10000200,
                        "date-nsec": 12,
                        "vm-clock-sec": 206,
                        "vm-clock-nsec": 30
                     }
                  ],
                  "backing-image":{
                      "filename":"disks/base.qcow2",
                      "format":"qcow2",
                      "virtual-size":2048000
                  }
               }
            },
            "qdev": "ide_disk",
            "type":"unknown"
         },
         {
            "io-status": "ok",
            "device":"ide1-cd0",
            "locked":false,
            "removable":true,
            "qdev": "/machine/unattached/device[23]",
            "tray_open": false,
            "type":"unknown"
         },
         {
            "device":"floppy0",
            "locked":false,
            "removable":true,
            "qdev": "/machine/unattached/device[20]",
            "type":"unknown"
         },
         {
            "device":"sd0",
            "locked":false,
            "removable":true,
            "type":"unknown"
         }
      ]
   }
Object: BlockDeviceTimedStats

Statistics of a block device during a given interval of time.

Members:

interval_length: int

Interval used for calculating the statistics, in seconds.

min_rd_latency_ns: int

Minimum latency of read operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

min_wr_latency_ns: int

Minimum latency of write operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

min_flush_latency_ns: int

Minimum latency of flush operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

max_rd_latency_ns: int

Maximum latency of read operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

max_wr_latency_ns: int

Maximum latency of write operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

max_flush_latency_ns: int

Maximum latency of flush operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

avg_rd_latency_ns: int

Average latency of read operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

avg_wr_latency_ns: int

Average latency of write operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

avg_flush_latency_ns: int

Average latency of flush operations in the defined interval, in nanoseconds.

avg_rd_queue_depth: number

Average number of pending read operations in the defined interval.

avg_wr_queue_depth: number

Average number of pending write operations in the defined interval.

Since: 2.5

Object: BlockDeviceStats

Statistics of a virtual block device or a block backing device.

Members:

rd_bytes: int

The number of bytes read by the device.

wr_bytes: int

The number of bytes written by the device.

rd_operations: int

The number of read operations performed by the device.

wr_operations: int

The number of write operations performed by the device.

flush_operations: int

The number of cache flush operations performed by the device (since 0.15.0)

flush_total_time_ns: int

Total time spend on cache flushes in nano-seconds (since 0.15.0).

wr_total_time_ns: int

Total time spend on writes in nano-seconds (since 0.15.0).

rd_total_time_ns: int

Total_time_spend on reads in nano-seconds (since 0.15.0).

wr_highest_offset: int

The offset after the greatest byte written to the device. The intended use of this information is for growable sparse files (like qcow2) that are used on top of a physical device.

rd_merged: int

Number of read requests that have been merged into another request (Since 2.3).

wr_merged: int

Number of write requests that have been merged into another request (Since 2.3).

idle_time_ns: int (optional)

Time since the last I/O operation, in nanoseconds. If the field is absent it means that there haven’t been any operations yet (Since 2.5).

failed_rd_operations: int

The number of failed read operations performed by the device (Since 2.5)

failed_wr_operations: int

The number of failed write operations performed by the device (Since 2.5)

failed_flush_operations: int

The number of failed flush operations performed by the device (Since 2.5)

invalid_rd_operations: int

The number of invalid read operations performed by the device (Since 2.5)

invalid_wr_operations: int

The number of invalid write operations performed by the device (Since 2.5)

invalid_flush_operations: int

The number of invalid flush operations performed by the device (Since 2.5)

account_invalid: boolean

Whether invalid operations are included in the last access statistics (Since 2.5)

account_failed: boolean

Whether failed operations are included in the latency and last access statistics (Since 2.5)

timed_stats: array of BlockDeviceTimedStats

Statistics specific to the set of previously defined intervals of time (Since 2.5)

rd_latency_histogram: BlockLatencyHistogramInfo (optional)

BlockLatencyHistogramInfo. (Since 4.0)

wr_latency_histogram: BlockLatencyHistogramInfo (optional)

BlockLatencyHistogramInfo. (Since 4.0)

flush_latency_histogram: BlockLatencyHistogramInfo (optional)

BlockLatencyHistogramInfo. (Since 4.0)

Since: 0.14.0

Object: BlockStats

Statistics of a virtual block device or a block backing device.

Members:

device: string (optional)

If the stats are for a virtual block device, the name corresponding to the virtual block device.

node-name: string (optional)

The node name of the device. (Since 2.3)

qdev: string (optional)

The qdev ID, or if no ID is assigned, the QOM path of the block device. (since 3.0)

stats: BlockDeviceStats

A BlockDeviceStats for the device.

parent: BlockStats (optional)

This describes the file block device if it has one. Contains recursively the statistics of the underlying protocol (e.g. the host file for a qcow2 image). If there is no underlying protocol, this field is omitted

backing: BlockStats (optional)

This describes the backing block device if it has one. (Since 2.0)

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-blockstats

Query the BlockStats for all virtual block devices.

Arguments:

query-nodes: boolean (optional)

If true, the command will query all the block nodes that have a node name, in a list which will include "parent" information, but not "backing". If false or omitted, the behavior is as before - query all the device backends, recursively including their "parent" and "backing". Filter nodes that were created implicitly are skipped over in this mode. (Since 2.3)

Returns: A list of BlockStats for each virtual block devices.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-blockstats" }
<- {
      "return":[
         {
            "device":"ide0-hd0",
            "parent":{
               "stats":{
                  "wr_highest_offset":3686448128,
                  "wr_bytes":9786368,
                  "wr_operations":751,
                  "rd_bytes":122567168,
                  "rd_operations":36772
                  "wr_total_times_ns":313253456
                  "rd_total_times_ns":3465673657
                  "flush_total_times_ns":49653
                  "flush_operations":61,
                  "rd_merged":0,
                  "wr_merged":0,
                  "idle_time_ns":2953431879,
                  "account_invalid":true,
                  "account_failed":false
               }
            },
            "stats":{
               "wr_highest_offset":2821110784,
               "wr_bytes":9786368,
               "wr_operations":692,
               "rd_bytes":122739200,
               "rd_operations":36604
               "flush_operations":51,
               "wr_total_times_ns":313253456
               "rd_total_times_ns":3465673657
               "flush_total_times_ns":49653,
               "rd_merged":0,
               "wr_merged":0,
               "idle_time_ns":2953431879,
               "account_invalid":true,
               "account_failed":false
            },
            "qdev": "/machine/unattached/device[23]"
         },
         {
            "device":"ide1-cd0",
            "stats":{
               "wr_highest_offset":0,
               "wr_bytes":0,
               "wr_operations":0,
               "rd_bytes":0,
               "rd_operations":0
               "flush_operations":0,
               "wr_total_times_ns":0
               "rd_total_times_ns":0
               "flush_total_times_ns":0,
               "rd_merged":0,
               "wr_merged":0,
               "account_invalid":false,
               "account_failed":false
            },
            "qdev": "/machine/unattached/device[24]"
         },
         {
            "device":"floppy0",
            "stats":{
               "wr_highest_offset":0,
               "wr_bytes":0,
               "wr_operations":0,
               "rd_bytes":0,
               "rd_operations":0
               "flush_operations":0,
               "wr_total_times_ns":0
               "rd_total_times_ns":0
               "flush_total_times_ns":0,
               "rd_merged":0,
               "wr_merged":0,
               "account_invalid":false,
               "account_failed":false
            },
            "qdev": "/machine/unattached/device[16]"
         },
         {
            "device":"sd0",
            "stats":{
               "wr_highest_offset":0,
               "wr_bytes":0,
               "wr_operations":0,
               "rd_bytes":0,
               "rd_operations":0
               "flush_operations":0,
               "wr_total_times_ns":0
               "rd_total_times_ns":0
               "flush_total_times_ns":0,
               "rd_merged":0,
               "wr_merged":0,
               "account_invalid":false,
               "account_failed":false
            }
         }
      ]
   }
Enum: BlockdevOnError

An enumeration of possible behaviors for errors on I/O operations. The exact meaning depends on whether the I/O was initiated by a guest or by a block job

Values:

report

for guest operations, report the error to the guest; for jobs, cancel the job

ignore

ignore the error, only report a QMP event (BLOCK_IO_ERROR or BLOCK_JOB_ERROR)

enospc

same as stop on ENOSPC, same as report otherwise.

stop

for guest operations, stop the virtual machine; for jobs, pause the job

auto

inherit the error handling policy of the backend (since: 2.7)

Since: 1.3

Enum: MirrorSyncMode

An enumeration of possible behaviors for the initial synchronization phase of storage mirroring.

Values:

top

copies data in the topmost image to the destination

full

copies data from all images to the destination

none

only copy data written from now on

incremental

only copy data described by the dirty bitmap. Since: 2.4

Since: 1.3

Enum: MirrorCopyMode

An enumeration whose values tell the mirror block job when to trigger writes to the target.

Values:

background

copy data in background only.

write-blocking

when data is written to the source, write it (synchronously) to the target as well. In addition, data is copied in background just like in background mode.

Since: 3.0

Object: BlockJobInfo

Information about a long-running block device operation.

Members:

type: string

the job type (’stream’ for image streaming)

device: string

The job identifier. Originally the device name but other values are allowed since QEMU 2.7

len: int

Estimated offset value at the completion of the job. This value can arbitrarily change while the job is running, in both directions.

offset: int

Progress made until now. The unit is arbitrary and the value can only meaningfully be used for the ratio of offset to len. The value is monotonically increasing.

busy: boolean

false if the job is known to be in a quiescent state, with no pending I/O. Since 1.3.

paused: boolean

whether the job is paused or, if busy is true, will pause itself as soon as possible. Since 1.3.

speed: int

the rate limit, bytes per second

io-status: BlockDeviceIoStatus

the status of the job (since 1.3)

ready: boolean

true if the job may be completed (since 2.2)

status: JobStatus

Current job state/status (since 2.12)

auto-finalize: boolean

Job will finalize itself when PENDING, moving to the CONCLUDED state. (since 2.12)

auto-dismiss: boolean

Job will dismiss itself when CONCLUDED, moving to the NULL state and disappearing from the query list. (since 2.12)

error: string (optional)

Error information if the job did not complete successfully. Not set if the job completed successfully. (since 2.12.1)

Since: 1.1

Command: query-block-jobs

Return information about long-running block device operations.

Returns: a list of BlockJobInfo for each active block job

Since: 1.1

Command: block_passwd

This command sets the password of a block device that has not been open with a password and requires one.

This command is now obsolete and will always return an error since 2.10

Arguments:

device: string (optional)

Not documented

node-name: string (optional)

Not documented

password: string

Not documented

Command: block_resize

Resize a block image while a guest is running.

Either device or node-name must be set but not both.

Arguments:

device: string (optional)

the name of the device to get the image resized

node-name: string (optional)

graph node name to get the image resized (Since 2.0)

size: int

new image size in bytes

Returns: nothing on success If device is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "block_resize",
     "arguments": { "device": "scratch", "size": 1073741824 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Enum: NewImageMode

An enumeration that tells QEMU how to set the backing file path in a new image file.

Values:

existing

QEMU should look for an existing image file.

absolute-paths

QEMU should create a new image with absolute paths for the backing file. If there is no backing file available, the new image will not be backed either.

Since: 1.1

Object: BlockdevSnapshotSync

Either device or node-name must be set but not both.

Members:

device: string (optional)

the name of the device to take a snapshot of.

node-name: string (optional)

graph node name to generate the snapshot from (Since 2.0)

snapshot-file: string

the target of the new overlay image. If the file exists, or if it is a device, the overlay will be created in the existing file/device. Otherwise, a new file will be created.

snapshot-node-name: string (optional)

the graph node name of the new image (Since 2.0)

format: string (optional)

the format of the overlay image, default is ’qcow2’.

mode: NewImageMode (optional)

whether and how QEMU should create a new image, default is ’absolute-paths’.

Object: BlockdevSnapshot

Members:

node: string

device or node name that will have a snapshot taken.

overlay: string

reference to the existing block device that will become the overlay of node, as part of taking the snapshot. It must not have a current backing file (this can be achieved by passing "backing": null to blockdev-add).

Since: 2.5

Object: DriveBackup

Members:

job-id: string (optional)

identifier for the newly-created block job. If omitted, the device name will be used. (Since 2.7)

device: string

the device name or node-name of a root node which should be copied.

target: string

the target of the new image. If the file exists, or if it is a device, the existing file/device will be used as the new destination. If it does not exist, a new file will be created.

format: string (optional)

the format of the new destination, default is to probe if mode is ’existing’, else the format of the source

sync: MirrorSyncMode

what parts of the disk image should be copied to the destination (all the disk, only the sectors allocated in the topmost image, from a dirty bitmap, or only new I/O).

mode: NewImageMode (optional)

whether and how QEMU should create a new image, default is ’absolute-paths’.

speed: int (optional)

the maximum speed, in bytes per second

bitmap: string (optional)

the name of dirty bitmap if sync is "incremental". Must be present if sync is "incremental", must NOT be present otherwise. (Since 2.4)

compress: boolean (optional)

true to compress data, if the target format supports it. (default: false) (since 2.8)

on-source-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error on the source, default ’report’. ’stop’ and ’enospc’ can only be used if the block device supports io-status (see BlockInfo).

on-target-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error on the target, default ’report’ (no limitations, since this applies to a different block device than device).

auto-finalize: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a PENDING state after it has finished its work, waiting for block-job-finalize before making any block graph changes. When true, this job will automatically perform its abort or commit actions. Defaults to true. (Since 2.12)

auto-dismiss: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a CONCLUDED state after it has completely ceased all work, and awaits block-job-dismiss. When true, this job will automatically disappear from the query list without user intervention. Defaults to true. (Since 2.12)

Note: on-source-error and on-target-error only affect background I/O. If an error occurs during a guest write request, the device’s rerror/werror actions will be used.

Since: 1.6

Object: BlockdevBackup

Members:

job-id: string (optional)

identifier for the newly-created block job. If omitted, the device name will be used. (Since 2.7)

device: string

the device name or node-name of a root node which should be copied.

target: string

the device name or node-name of the backup target node.

sync: MirrorSyncMode

what parts of the disk image should be copied to the destination (all the disk, only the sectors allocated in the topmost image, or only new I/O).

speed: int (optional)

the maximum speed, in bytes per second. The default is 0, for unlimited.

bitmap: string (optional)

the name of dirty bitmap if sync is "incremental". Must be present if sync is "incremental", must NOT be present otherwise. (Since 3.1)

compress: boolean (optional)

true to compress data, if the target format supports it. (default: false) (since 2.8)

on-source-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error on the source, default ’report’. ’stop’ and ’enospc’ can only be used if the block device supports io-status (see BlockInfo).

on-target-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error on the target, default ’report’ (no limitations, since this applies to a different block device than device).

auto-finalize: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a PENDING state after it has finished its work, waiting for block-job-finalize before making any block graph changes. When true, this job will automatically perform its abort or commit actions. Defaults to true. (Since 2.12)

auto-dismiss: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a CONCLUDED state after it has completely ceased all work, and awaits block-job-dismiss. When true, this job will automatically disappear from the query list without user intervention. Defaults to true. (Since 2.12)

Note: on-source-error and on-target-error only affect background I/O. If an error occurs during a guest write request, the device’s rerror/werror actions will be used.

Since: 2.3

Command: blockdev-snapshot-sync

Takes a synchronous snapshot of a block device.

For the arguments, see the documentation of BlockdevSnapshotSync.

Returns: nothing on success If device is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-snapshot-sync",
     "arguments": { "device": "ide-hd0",
                    "snapshot-file":
                    "/some/place/my-image",
                    "format": "qcow2" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: blockdev-snapshot

Takes a snapshot of a block device.

Take a snapshot, by installing ’node’ as the backing image of ’overlay’. Additionally, if ’node’ is associated with a block device, the block device changes to using ’overlay’ as its new active image.

For the arguments, see the documentation of BlockdevSnapshot.

Since: 2.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-add",
     "arguments": { "driver": "qcow2",
                    "node-name": "node1534",
                    "file": { "driver": "file",
                              "filename": "hd1.qcow2" },
                    "backing": null } }

<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute": "blockdev-snapshot",
     "arguments": { "node": "ide-hd0",
                    "overlay": "node1534" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: change-backing-file

Change the backing file in the image file metadata. This does not cause QEMU to reopen the image file to reparse the backing filename (it may, however, perform a reopen to change permissions from r/o -> r/w -> r/o, if needed). The new backing file string is written into the image file metadata, and the QEMU internal strings are updated.

Arguments:

image-node-name: string

The name of the block driver state node of the image to modify. The "device" argument is used to verify "image-node-name" is in the chain described by "device".

device: string

The device name or node-name of the root node that owns image-node-name.

backing-file: string

The string to write as the backing file. This string is not validated, so care should be taken when specifying the string or the image chain may not be able to be reopened again.

Returns: Nothing on success

If "device" does not exist or cannot be determined, DeviceNotFound

Since: 2.1

Command: block-commit

Live commit of data from overlay image nodes into backing nodes - i.e., writes data between ’top’ and ’base’ into ’base’.

Arguments:

job-id: string (optional)

identifier for the newly-created block job. If omitted, the device name will be used. (Since 2.7)

device: string

the device name or node-name of a root node

base-node: string (optional)

The node name of the backing image to write data into. If not specified, this is the deepest backing image. (since: 3.1)

base: string (optional)

Same as base-node, except that it is a file name rather than a node name. This must be the exact filename string that was used to open the node; other strings, even if addressing the same file, are not accepted (deprecated, use base-node instead)

top-node: string (optional)

The node name of the backing image within the image chain which contains the topmost data to be committed down. If not specified, this is the active layer. (since: 3.1)

top: string (optional)

Same as top-node, except that it is a file name rather than a node name. This must be the exact filename string that was used to open the node; other strings, even if addressing the same file, are not accepted (deprecated, use base-node instead)

backing-file: string (optional)

The backing file string to write into the overlay image of ’top’. If ’top’ is the active layer, specifying a backing file string is an error. This filename is not validated.

If a pathname string is such that it cannot be resolved by QEMU, that means that subsequent QMP or HMP commands must use node-names for the image in question, as filename lookup methods will fail.

If not specified, QEMU will automatically determine the backing file string to use, or error out if there is no obvious choice. Care should be taken when specifying the string, to specify a valid filename or protocol. (Since 2.1)

If top == base, that is an error. If top == active, the job will not be completed by itself, user needs to complete the job with the block-job-complete command after getting the ready event. (Since 2.0)

If the base image is smaller than top, then the base image will be resized to be the same size as top. If top is smaller than the base image, the base will not be truncated. If you want the base image size to match the size of the smaller top, you can safely truncate it yourself once the commit operation successfully completes.

speed: int (optional)

the maximum speed, in bytes per second

filter-node-name: string (optional)

the node name that should be assigned to the filter driver that the commit job inserts into the graph above top. If this option is not given, a node name is autogenerated. (Since: 2.9)

auto-finalize: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a PENDING state after it has finished its work, waiting for block-job-finalize before making any block graph changes. When true, this job will automatically perform its abort or commit actions. Defaults to true. (Since 3.1)

auto-dismiss: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a CONCLUDED state after it has completely ceased all work, and awaits block-job-dismiss. When true, this job will automatically disappear from the query list without user intervention. Defaults to true. (Since 3.1)

Returns: Nothing on success If device does not exist, DeviceNotFound Any other error returns a GenericError.

Since: 1.3

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-commit",
     "arguments": { "device": "virtio0",
                    "top": "/tmp/snap1.qcow2" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: drive-backup

Start a point-in-time copy of a block device to a new destination. The status of ongoing drive-backup operations can be checked with query-block-jobs where the BlockJobInfo.type field has the value ’backup’. The operation can be stopped before it has completed using the block-job-cancel command.

Arguments: the members of DriveBackup

Returns: nothing on success If device is not a valid block device, GenericError

Since: 1.6

Example:

-> { "execute": "drive-backup",
     "arguments": { "device": "drive0",
                    "sync": "full",
                    "target": "backup.img" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: blockdev-backup

Start a point-in-time copy of a block device to a new destination. The status of ongoing blockdev-backup operations can be checked with query-block-jobs where the BlockJobInfo.type field has the value ’backup’. The operation can be stopped before it has completed using the block-job-cancel command.

Arguments: the members of BlockdevBackup

Returns: nothing on success If device is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound

Since: 2.3

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-backup",
     "arguments": { "device": "src-id",
                    "sync": "full",
                    "target": "tgt-id" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: query-named-block-nodes

Get the named block driver list

Returns: the list of BlockDeviceInfo

Since: 2.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-named-block-nodes" }
<- { "return": [ { "ro":false,
                   "drv":"qcow2",
                   "encrypted":false,
                   "file":"disks/test.qcow2",
                   "node-name": "my-node",
                   "backing_file_depth":1,
                   "bps":1000000,
                   "bps_rd":0,
                   "bps_wr":0,
                   "iops":1000000,
                   "iops_rd":0,
                   "iops_wr":0,
                   "bps_max": 8000000,
                   "bps_rd_max": 0,
                   "bps_wr_max": 0,
                   "iops_max": 0,
                   "iops_rd_max": 0,
                   "iops_wr_max": 0,
                   "iops_size": 0,
                   "write_threshold": 0,
                   "image":{
                      "filename":"disks/test.qcow2",
                      "format":"qcow2",
                      "virtual-size":2048000,
                      "backing_file":"base.qcow2",
                      "full-backing-filename":"disks/base.qcow2",
                      "backing-filename-format":"qcow2",
                      "snapshots":[
                         {
                            "id": "1",
                            "name": "snapshot1",
                            "vm-state-size": 0,
                            "date-sec": 10000200,
                            "date-nsec": 12,
                            "vm-clock-sec": 206,
                            "vm-clock-nsec": 30
                         }
                      ],
                      "backing-image":{
                          "filename":"disks/base.qcow2",
                          "format":"qcow2",
                          "virtual-size":2048000
                      }
                   } } ] }
Enum: XDbgBlockGraphNodeType

Values:

block-backend

corresponds to BlockBackend

block-job

corresonds to BlockJob

block-driver

corresponds to BlockDriverState

Since: 4.0

Object: XDbgBlockGraphNode

Members:

id: int

Block graph node identifier. This id is generated only for x-debug-query-block-graph and does not relate to any other identifiers in Qemu.

type: XDbgBlockGraphNodeType

Type of graph node. Can be one of block-backend, block-job or block-driver-state.

name: string

Human readable name of the node. Corresponds to node-name for block-driver-state nodes; is not guaranteed to be unique in the whole graph (with block-jobs and block-backends).

Since: 4.0

Enum: BlockPermission

Enum of base block permissions.

Values:

consistent-read

A user that has the "permission" of consistent reads is guaranteed that their view of the contents of the block device is complete and self-consistent, representing the contents of a disk at a specific point. For most block devices (including their backing files) this is true, but the property cannot be maintained in a few situations like for intermediate nodes of a commit block job.

write

This permission is required to change the visible disk contents.

write-unchanged

This permission (which is weaker than BLK_PERM_WRITE) is both enough and required for writes to the block node when the caller promises that the visible disk content doesn’t change. As the BLK_PERM_WRITE permission is strictly stronger, either is sufficient to perform an unchanging write.

resize

This permission is required to change the size of a block node.

graph-mod

This permission is required to change the node that this BdrvChild points to.

Since: 4.0

Object: XDbgBlockGraphEdge

Block Graph edge description for x-debug-query-block-graph.

Members:

parent: int

parent id

child: int

child id

name: string

name of the relation (examples are ’file’ and ’backing’)

perm: array of BlockPermission

granted permissions for the parent operating on the child

shared-perm: array of BlockPermission

permissions that can still be granted to other users of the child while it is still attached to this parent

Since: 4.0

Object: XDbgBlockGraph

Block Graph - list of nodes and list of edges.

Members:

nodes: array of XDbgBlockGraphNode

Not documented

edges: array of XDbgBlockGraphEdge

Not documented

Since: 4.0

Command: x-debug-query-block-graph

Get the block graph.

Since: 4.0

Command: drive-mirror

Start mirroring a block device’s writes to a new destination. target specifies the target of the new image. If the file exists, or if it is a device, it will be used as the new destination for writes. If it does not exist, a new file will be created. format specifies the format of the mirror image, default is to probe if mode=’existing’, else the format of the source.

Arguments: the members of DriveMirror

Returns: nothing on success If device is not a valid block device, GenericError

Since: 1.3

Example:

-> { "execute": "drive-mirror",
     "arguments": { "device": "ide-hd0",
                    "target": "/some/place/my-image",
                    "sync": "full",
                    "format": "qcow2" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: DriveMirror

A set of parameters describing drive mirror setup.

Members:

job-id: string (optional)

identifier for the newly-created block job. If omitted, the device name will be used. (Since 2.7)

device: string

the device name or node-name of a root node whose writes should be mirrored.

target: string

the target of the new image. If the file exists, or if it is a device, the existing file/device will be used as the new destination. If it does not exist, a new file will be created.

format: string (optional)

the format of the new destination, default is to probe if mode is ’existing’, else the format of the source

node-name: string (optional)

the new block driver state node name in the graph (Since 2.1)

replaces: string (optional)

with sync=full graph node name to be replaced by the new image when a whole image copy is done. This can be used to repair broken Quorum files. (Since 2.1)

mode: NewImageMode (optional)

whether and how QEMU should create a new image, default is ’absolute-paths’.

speed: int (optional)

the maximum speed, in bytes per second

sync: MirrorSyncMode

what parts of the disk image should be copied to the destination (all the disk, only the sectors allocated in the topmost image, or only new I/O).

granularity: int (optional)

granularity of the dirty bitmap, default is 64K if the image format doesn’t have clusters, 4K if the clusters are smaller than that, else the cluster size. Must be a power of 2 between 512 and 64M (since 1.4).

buf-size: int (optional)

maximum amount of data in flight from source to target (since 1.4).

on-source-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error on the source, default ’report’. ’stop’ and ’enospc’ can only be used if the block device supports io-status (see BlockInfo).

on-target-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error on the target, default ’report’ (no limitations, since this applies to a different block device than device).

unmap: boolean (optional)

Whether to try to unmap target sectors where source has only zero. If true, and target unallocated sectors will read as zero, target image sectors will be unmapped; otherwise, zeroes will be written. Both will result in identical contents. Default is true. (Since 2.4)

copy-mode: MirrorCopyMode (optional)

when to copy data to the destination; defaults to ’background’ (Since: 3.0)

auto-finalize: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a PENDING state after it has finished its work, waiting for block-job-finalize before making any block graph changes. When true, this job will automatically perform its abort or commit actions. Defaults to true. (Since 3.1)

auto-dismiss: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a CONCLUDED state after it has completely ceased all work, and awaits block-job-dismiss. When true, this job will automatically disappear from the query list without user intervention. Defaults to true. (Since 3.1)

Since: 1.3

Object: BlockDirtyBitmap

Members:

node: string

name of device/node which the bitmap is tracking

name: string

name of the dirty bitmap

Since: 2.4

Object: BlockDirtyBitmapAdd

Members:

node: string

name of device/node which the bitmap is tracking

name: string

name of the dirty bitmap

granularity: int (optional)

the bitmap granularity, default is 64k for block-dirty-bitmap-add

persistent: boolean (optional)

the bitmap is persistent, i.e. it will be saved to the corresponding block device image file on its close. For now only Qcow2 disks support persistent bitmaps. Default is false for block-dirty-bitmap-add. (Since: 2.10)

autoload: boolean (optional)

ignored and deprecated since 2.12. Currently, all dirty tracking bitmaps are loaded from Qcow2 on open.

disabled: boolean (optional)

the bitmap is created in the disabled state, which means that it will not track drive changes. The bitmap may be enabled with block-dirty-bitmap-enable. Default is false. (Since: 4.0)

Since: 2.4

Alternate: BlockDirtyBitmapMergeSource

Members:

local: string

name of the bitmap, attached to the same node as target bitmap.

external: BlockDirtyBitmap

bitmap with specified node

Since: 4.1

Object: BlockDirtyBitmapMerge

Members:

node: string

name of device/node which the target bitmap is tracking

target: string

name of the destination dirty bitmap

bitmaps: array of BlockDirtyBitmapMergeSource

name(s) of the source dirty bitmap(s) at node and/or fully specifed BlockDirtyBitmap elements. The latter are supported since 4.1.

Since: 4.0

Command: block-dirty-bitmap-add

Create a dirty bitmap with a name on the node, and start tracking the writes.

Returns: nothing on success If node is not a valid block device or node, DeviceNotFound If name is already taken, GenericError with an explanation

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-dirty-bitmap-add",
     "arguments": { "node": "drive0", "name": "bitmap0" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: block-dirty-bitmap-remove

Stop write tracking and remove the dirty bitmap that was created with block-dirty-bitmap-add. If the bitmap is persistent, remove it from its storage too.

Returns: nothing on success If node is not a valid block device or node, DeviceNotFound If name is not found, GenericError with an explanation if name is frozen by an operation, GenericError

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-dirty-bitmap-remove",
     "arguments": { "node": "drive0", "name": "bitmap0" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: block-dirty-bitmap-clear

Clear (reset) a dirty bitmap on the device, so that an incremental backup from this point in time forward will only backup clusters modified after this clear operation.

Returns: nothing on success If node is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound If name is not found, GenericError with an explanation

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-dirty-bitmap-clear",
     "arguments": { "node": "drive0", "name": "bitmap0" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: block-dirty-bitmap-enable

Enables a dirty bitmap so that it will begin tracking disk changes.

Returns: nothing on success If node is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound If name is not found, GenericError with an explanation

Since: 4.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-dirty-bitmap-enable",
     "arguments": { "node": "drive0", "name": "bitmap0" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: block-dirty-bitmap-disable

Disables a dirty bitmap so that it will stop tracking disk changes.

Returns: nothing on success If node is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound If name is not found, GenericError with an explanation

Since: 4.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-dirty-bitmap-disable",
     "arguments": { "node": "drive0", "name": "bitmap0" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: block-dirty-bitmap-merge

Merge dirty bitmaps listed in bitmaps to the target dirty bitmap. Dirty bitmaps in bitmaps will be unchanged, except if it also appears as the target bitmap. Any bits already set in target will still be set after the merge, i.e., this operation does not clear the target. On error, target is unchanged.

The resulting bitmap will count as dirty any clusters that were dirty in any of the source bitmaps. This can be used to achieve backup checkpoints, or in simpler usages, to copy bitmaps.

Returns: nothing on success If node is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound If any bitmap in bitmaps or target is not found, GenericError If any of the bitmaps have different sizes or granularities, GenericError

Since: 4.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-dirty-bitmap-merge",
     "arguments": { "node": "drive0", "target": "bitmap0",
                    "bitmaps": ["bitmap1"] } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: BlockDirtyBitmapSha256

SHA256 hash of dirty bitmap data

Members:

sha256: string

ASCII representation of SHA256 bitmap hash

Since: 2.10

Command: x-debug-block-dirty-bitmap-sha256

Get bitmap SHA256.

Returns: BlockDirtyBitmapSha256 on success If node is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound If name is not found or if hashing has failed, GenericError with an explanation

Since: 2.10

Command: blockdev-mirror

Start mirroring a block device’s writes to a new destination.

Arguments:

job-id: string (optional)

identifier for the newly-created block job. If omitted, the device name will be used. (Since 2.7)

device: string

The device name or node-name of a root node whose writes should be mirrored.

target: string

the id or node-name of the block device to mirror to. This mustn’t be attached to guest.

replaces: string (optional)

with sync=full graph node name to be replaced by the new image when a whole image copy is done. This can be used to repair broken Quorum files.

speed: int (optional)

the maximum speed, in bytes per second

sync: MirrorSyncMode

what parts of the disk image should be copied to the destination (all the disk, only the sectors allocated in the topmost image, or only new I/O).

granularity: int (optional)

granularity of the dirty bitmap, default is 64K if the image format doesn’t have clusters, 4K if the clusters are smaller than that, else the cluster size. Must be a power of 2 between 512 and 64M

buf-size: int (optional)

maximum amount of data in flight from source to target

on-source-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error on the source, default ’report’. ’stop’ and ’enospc’ can only be used if the block device supports io-status (see BlockInfo).

on-target-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error on the target, default ’report’ (no limitations, since this applies to a different block device than device).

filter-node-name: string (optional)

the node name that should be assigned to the filter driver that the mirror job inserts into the graph above device. If this option is not given, a node name is autogenerated. (Since: 2.9)

copy-mode: MirrorCopyMode (optional)

when to copy data to the destination; defaults to ’background’ (Since: 3.0)

auto-finalize: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a PENDING state after it has finished its work, waiting for block-job-finalize before making any block graph changes. When true, this job will automatically perform its abort or commit actions. Defaults to true. (Since 3.1)

auto-dismiss: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a CONCLUDED state after it has completely ceased all work, and awaits block-job-dismiss. When true, this job will automatically disappear from the query list without user intervention. Defaults to true. (Since 3.1)

Returns: nothing on success.

Since: 2.6

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-mirror",
     "arguments": { "device": "ide-hd0",
                    "target": "target0",
                    "sync": "full" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: block_set_io_throttle

Change I/O throttle limits for a block drive.

Since QEMU 2.4, each device with I/O limits is member of a throttle group.

If two or more devices are members of the same group, the limits will apply to the combined I/O of the whole group in a round-robin fashion. Therefore, setting new I/O limits to a device will affect the whole group.

The name of the group can be specified using the ’group’ parameter. If the parameter is unset, it is assumed to be the current group of that device. If it’s not in any group yet, the name of the device will be used as the name for its group.

The ’group’ parameter can also be used to move a device to a different group. In this case the limits specified in the parameters will be applied to the new group only.

I/O limits can be disabled by setting all of them to 0. In this case the device will be removed from its group and the rest of its members will not be affected. The ’group’ parameter is ignored.

Arguments: the members of BlockIOThrottle

Returns: Nothing on success If device is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound

Since: 1.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "block_set_io_throttle",
     "arguments": { "id": "virtio-blk-pci0/virtio-backend",
                    "bps": 0,
                    "bps_rd": 0,
                    "bps_wr": 0,
                    "iops": 512,
                    "iops_rd": 0,
                    "iops_wr": 0,
                    "bps_max": 0,
                    "bps_rd_max": 0,
                    "bps_wr_max": 0,
                    "iops_max": 0,
                    "iops_rd_max": 0,
                    "iops_wr_max": 0,
                    "bps_max_length": 0,
                    "iops_size": 0 } }
<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute": "block_set_io_throttle",
     "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0",
                    "bps": 1000000,
                    "bps_rd": 0,
                    "bps_wr": 0,
                    "iops": 0,
                    "iops_rd": 0,
                    "iops_wr": 0,
                    "bps_max": 8000000,
                    "bps_rd_max": 0,
                    "bps_wr_max": 0,
                    "iops_max": 0,
                    "iops_rd_max": 0,
                    "iops_wr_max": 0,
                    "bps_max_length": 60,
                    "iops_size": 0 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: BlockIOThrottle

A set of parameters describing block throttling.

Members:

device: string (optional)

Block device name (deprecated, use id instead)

id: string (optional)

The name or QOM path of the guest device (since: 2.8)

bps: int

total throughput limit in bytes per second

bps_rd: int

read throughput limit in bytes per second

bps_wr: int

write throughput limit in bytes per second

iops: int

total I/O operations per second

iops_rd: int

read I/O operations per second

iops_wr: int

write I/O operations per second

bps_max: int (optional)

total throughput limit during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

bps_rd_max: int (optional)

read throughput limit during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

bps_wr_max: int (optional)

write throughput limit during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

iops_max: int (optional)

total I/O operations per second during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

iops_rd_max: int (optional)

read I/O operations per second during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

iops_wr_max: int (optional)

write I/O operations per second during bursts, in bytes (Since 1.7)

bps_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the bps_max burst period, in seconds. It must only be set if bps_max is set as well. Defaults to 1. (Since 2.6)

bps_rd_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the bps_rd_max burst period, in seconds. It must only be set if bps_rd_max is set as well. Defaults to 1. (Since 2.6)

bps_wr_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the bps_wr_max burst period, in seconds. It must only be set if bps_wr_max is set as well. Defaults to 1. (Since 2.6)

iops_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the iops burst period, in seconds. It must only be set if iops_max is set as well. Defaults to 1. (Since 2.6)

iops_rd_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the iops_rd_max burst period, in seconds. It must only be set if iops_rd_max is set as well. Defaults to 1. (Since 2.6)

iops_wr_max_length: int (optional)

maximum length of the iops_wr_max burst period, in seconds. It must only be set if iops_wr_max is set as well. Defaults to 1. (Since 2.6)

iops_size: int (optional)

an I/O size in bytes (Since 1.7)

group: string (optional)

throttle group name (Since 2.4)

Since: 1.1

Object: ThrottleLimits

Limit parameters for throttling. Since some limit combinations are illegal, limits should always be set in one transaction. All fields are optional. When setting limits, if a field is missing the current value is not changed.

Members:

iops-total: int (optional)

limit total I/O operations per second

iops-total-max: int (optional)

I/O operations burst

iops-total-max-length: int (optional)

length of the iops-total-max burst period, in seconds It must only be set if iops-total-max is set as well.

iops-read: int (optional)

limit read operations per second

iops-read-max: int (optional)

I/O operations read burst

iops-read-max-length: int (optional)

length of the iops-read-max burst period, in seconds It must only be set if iops-read-max is set as well.

iops-write: int (optional)

limit write operations per second

iops-write-max: int (optional)

I/O operations write burst

iops-write-max-length: int (optional)

length of the iops-write-max burst period, in seconds It must only be set if iops-write-max is set as well.

bps-total: int (optional)

limit total bytes per second

bps-total-max: int (optional)

total bytes burst

bps-total-max-length: int (optional)

length of the bps-total-max burst period, in seconds. It must only be set if bps-total-max is set as well.

bps-read: int (optional)

limit read bytes per second

bps-read-max: int (optional)

total bytes read burst

bps-read-max-length: int (optional)

length of the bps-read-max burst period, in seconds It must only be set if bps-read-max is set as well.

bps-write: int (optional)

limit write bytes per second

bps-write-max: int (optional)

total bytes write burst

bps-write-max-length: int (optional)

length of the bps-write-max burst period, in seconds It must only be set if bps-write-max is set as well.

iops-size: int (optional)

when limiting by iops max size of an I/O in bytes

Since: 2.11

Command: block-stream

Copy data from a backing file into a block device.

The block streaming operation is performed in the background until the entire backing file has been copied. This command returns immediately once streaming has started. The status of ongoing block streaming operations can be checked with query-block-jobs. The operation can be stopped before it has completed using the block-job-cancel command.

The node that receives the data is called the top image, can be located in any part of the chain (but always above the base image; see below) and can be specified using its device or node name. Earlier qemu versions only allowed ’device’ to name the top level node; presence of the ’base-node’ parameter during introspection can be used as a witness of the enhanced semantics of ’device’.

If a base file is specified then sectors are not copied from that base file and its backing chain. When streaming completes the image file will have the base file as its backing file. This can be used to stream a subset of the backing file chain instead of flattening the entire image.

On successful completion the image file is updated to drop the backing file and the BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED event is emitted.

Arguments:

job-id: string (optional)

identifier for the newly-created block job. If omitted, the device name will be used. (Since 2.7)

device: string

the device or node name of the top image

base: string (optional)

the common backing file name. It cannot be set if base-node is also set.

base-node: string (optional)

the node name of the backing file. It cannot be set if base is also set. (Since 2.8)

backing-file: string (optional)

The backing file string to write into the top image. This filename is not validated.

If a pathname string is such that it cannot be resolved by QEMU, that means that subsequent QMP or HMP commands must use node-names for the image in question, as filename lookup methods will fail.

If not specified, QEMU will automatically determine the backing file string to use, or error out if there is no obvious choice. Care should be taken when specifying the string, to specify a valid filename or protocol. (Since 2.1)

speed: int (optional)

the maximum speed, in bytes per second

on-error: BlockdevOnError (optional)

the action to take on an error (default report). ’stop’ and ’enospc’ can only be used if the block device supports io-status (see BlockInfo). Since 1.3.

auto-finalize: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a PENDING state after it has finished its work, waiting for block-job-finalize before making any block graph changes. When true, this job will automatically perform its abort or commit actions. Defaults to true. (Since 3.1)

auto-dismiss: boolean (optional)

When false, this job will wait in a CONCLUDED state after it has completely ceased all work, and awaits block-job-dismiss. When true, this job will automatically disappear from the query list without user intervention. Defaults to true. (Since 3.1)

Returns: Nothing on success. If device does not exist, DeviceNotFound.

Since: 1.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-stream",
     "arguments": { "device": "virtio0",
                    "base": "/tmp/master.qcow2" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: block-job-set-speed

Set maximum speed for a background block operation.

This command can only be issued when there is an active block job.

Throttling can be disabled by setting the speed to 0.

Arguments:

device: string

The job identifier. This used to be a device name (hence the name of the parameter), but since QEMU 2.7 it can have other values.

speed: int

the maximum speed, in bytes per second, or 0 for unlimited. Defaults to 0.

Returns: Nothing on success If no background operation is active on this device, DeviceNotActive

Since: 1.1

Command: block-job-cancel

Stop an active background block operation.

This command returns immediately after marking the active background block operation for cancellation. It is an error to call this command if no operation is in progress.

The operation will cancel as soon as possible and then emit the BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED event. Before that happens the job is still visible when enumerated using query-block-jobs.

Note that if you issue ’block-job-cancel’ after ’drive-mirror’ has indicated (via the event BLOCK_JOB_READY) that the source and destination are synchronized, then the event triggered by this command changes to BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED, to indicate that the mirroring has ended and the destination now has a point-in-time copy tied to the time of the cancellation.

For streaming, the image file retains its backing file unless the streaming operation happens to complete just as it is being cancelled. A new streaming operation can be started at a later time to finish copying all data from the backing file.

Arguments:

device: string

The job identifier. This used to be a device name (hence the name of the parameter), but since QEMU 2.7 it can have other values.

force: boolean (optional)

If true, and the job has already emitted the event BLOCK_JOB_READY, abandon the job immediately (even if it is paused) instead of waiting for the destination to complete its final synchronization (since 1.3)

Returns: Nothing on success If no background operation is active on this device, DeviceNotActive

Since: 1.1

Command: block-job-pause

Pause an active background block operation.

This command returns immediately after marking the active background block operation for pausing. It is an error to call this command if no operation is in progress or if the job is already paused.

The operation will pause as soon as possible. No event is emitted when the operation is actually paused. Cancelling a paused job automatically resumes it.

Arguments:

device: string

The job identifier. This used to be a device name (hence the name of the parameter), but since QEMU 2.7 it can have other values.

Returns: Nothing on success If no background operation is active on this device, DeviceNotActive

Since: 1.3

Command: block-job-resume

Resume an active background block operation.

This command returns immediately after resuming a paused background block operation. It is an error to call this command if no operation is in progress or if the job is not paused.

This command also clears the error status of the job.

Arguments:

device: string

The job identifier. This used to be a device name (hence the name of the parameter), but since QEMU 2.7 it can have other values.

Returns: Nothing on success If no background operation is active on this device, DeviceNotActive

Since: 1.3

Command: block-job-complete

Manually trigger completion of an active background block operation. This is supported for drive mirroring, where it also switches the device to write to the target path only. The ability to complete is signaled with a BLOCK_JOB_READY event.

This command completes an active background block operation synchronously. The ordering of this command’s return with the BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED event is not defined. Note that if an I/O error occurs during the processing of this command: 1) the command itself will fail; 2) the error will be processed according to the rerror/werror arguments that were specified when starting the operation.

A cancelled or paused job cannot be completed.

Arguments:

device: string

The job identifier. This used to be a device name (hence the name of the parameter), but since QEMU 2.7 it can have other values.

Returns: Nothing on success If no background operation is active on this device, DeviceNotActive

Since: 1.3

Command: block-job-dismiss

For jobs that have already concluded, remove them from the block-job-query list. This command only needs to be run for jobs which were started with QEMU 2.12+ job lifetime management semantics.

This command will refuse to operate on any job that has not yet reached its terminal state, JOB_STATUS_CONCLUDED. For jobs that make use of the BLOCK_JOB_READY event, block-job-cancel or block-job-complete will still need to be used as appropriate.

Arguments:

id: string

The job identifier.

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 2.12

Command: block-job-finalize

Once a job that has manual=true reaches the pending state, it can be instructed to finalize any graph changes and do any necessary cleanup via this command. For jobs in a transaction, instructing one job to finalize will force ALL jobs in the transaction to finalize, so it is only necessary to instruct a single member job to finalize.

Arguments:

id: string

The job identifier.

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 2.12

Enum: BlockdevDiscardOptions

Determines how to handle discard requests.

Values:

ignore

Ignore the request

unmap

Forward as an unmap request

Since: 2.9

Enum: BlockdevDetectZeroesOptions

Describes the operation mode for the automatic conversion of plain zero writes by the OS to driver specific optimized zero write commands.

Values:

off

Disabled (default)

on

Enabled

unmap

Enabled and even try to unmap blocks if possible. This requires also that BlockdevDiscardOptions is set to unmap for this device.

Since: 2.1

Enum: BlockdevAioOptions

Selects the AIO backend to handle I/O requests

Values:

threads

Use qemu’s thread pool

native

Use native AIO backend (only Linux and Windows)

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevCacheOptions

Includes cache-related options for block devices

Members:

direct: boolean (optional)

enables use of O_DIRECT (bypass the host page cache; default: false)

no-flush: boolean (optional)

ignore any flush requests for the device (default: false)

Since: 2.9

Enum: BlockdevDriver

Drivers that are supported in block device operations.

Values:

vxhs

Since 2.10

throttle

Since 2.11

nvme

Since 2.12

copy-on-read

Since 3.0

blklogwrites

Since 3.0

blkdebug

Not documented

blkverify

Not documented

bochs

Not documented

cloop

Not documented

dmg

Not documented

file

Not documented

ftp

Not documented

ftps

Not documented

gluster

Not documented

host_cdrom

Not documented

host_device

Not documented

http

Not documented

https

Not documented

iscsi

Not documented

luks

Not documented

nbd

Not documented

nfs

Not documented

null-aio

Not documented

null-co

Not documented

parallels

Not documented

qcow

Not documented

qcow2

Not documented

qed

Not documented

quorum

Not documented

raw

Not documented

rbd

Not documented

replication

Not documented
If: defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION)

sheepdog

Not documented

ssh

Not documented

vdi

Not documented

vhdx

Not documented

vmdk

Not documented

vpc

Not documented

vvfat

Not documented

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsFile

Driver specific block device options for the file backend.

Members:

filename: string

path to the image file

pr-manager: string (optional)

the id for the object that will handle persistent reservations for this device (default: none, forward the commands via SG_IO; since 2.11)

aio: BlockdevAioOptions (optional)

AIO backend (default: threads) (since: 2.8)

locking: OnOffAuto (optional)

whether to enable file locking. If set to ’auto’, only enable when Open File Descriptor (OFD) locking API is available (default: auto, since 2.10)

drop-cache: boolean (optional)

invalidate page cache during live migration. This prevents stale data on the migration destination with cache.direct=off. Currently only supported on Linux hosts. (default: on, since: 4.0)
If: defined(CONFIG_LINUX)

x-check-cache-dropped: boolean (optional)

whether to check that page cache was dropped on live migration. May cause noticeable delays if the image file is large, do not use in production. (default: off) (since: 3.0)

Features:

dynamic-auto-read-only

If present, enabled auto-read-only means that the driver will open the image read-only at first, dynamically reopen the image file read-write when the first writer is attached to the node and reopen read-only when the last writer is detached. This allows giving QEMU write permissions only on demand when an operation actually needs write access.

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsNull

Driver specific block device options for the null backend.

Members:

size: int (optional)

size of the device in bytes.

latency-ns: int (optional)

emulated latency (in nanoseconds) in processing requests. Default to zero which completes requests immediately. (Since 2.4)

read-zeroes: boolean (optional)

if true, reads from the device produce zeroes; if false, the buffer is left unchanged. (default: false; since: 4.1)

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsNVMe

Driver specific block device options for the NVMe backend.

Members:

device: string

controller address of the NVMe device.

namespace: int

namespace number of the device, starting from 1.

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevOptionsVVFAT

Driver specific block device options for the vvfat protocol.

Members:

dir: string

directory to be exported as FAT image

fat-type: int (optional)

FAT type: 12, 16 or 32

floppy: boolean (optional)

whether to export a floppy image (true) or partitioned hard disk (false; default)

label: string (optional)

set the volume label, limited to 11 bytes. FAT16 and FAT32 traditionally have some restrictions on labels, which are ignored by most operating systems. Defaults to "QEMU VVFAT". (since 2.4)

rw: boolean (optional)

whether to allow write operations (default: false)

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat

Driver specific block device options for image format that have no option besides their data source.

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

reference to or definition of the data source block device

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsLUKS

Driver specific block device options for LUKS.

Members:

key-secret: string (optional)

the ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing the decryption key (since 2.6). Mandatory except when doing a metadata-only probe of the image.

The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat

Driver specific block device options for image format that have no option besides their data source and an optional backing file.

Members:

backing: BlockdevRefOrNull (optional)

reference to or definition of the backing file block device, null disables the backing file entirely. Defaults to the backing file stored the image file.

The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat

Since: 2.9

Enum: Qcow2OverlapCheckMode

General overlap check modes.

Values:

none

Do not perform any checks

constant

Perform only checks which can be done in constant time and without reading anything from disk

cached

Perform only checks which can be done without reading anything from disk

all

Perform all available overlap checks

Since: 2.9

Object: Qcow2OverlapCheckFlags

Structure of flags for each metadata structure. Setting a field to ’true’ makes qemu guard that structure against unintended overwriting. The default value is chosen according to the template given.

Members:

template: Qcow2OverlapCheckMode (optional)

Specifies a template mode which can be adjusted using the other flags, defaults to ’cached’

bitmap-directory: boolean (optional)

since 3.0

main-header: boolean (optional)

Not documented

active-l1: boolean (optional)

Not documented

active-l2: boolean (optional)

Not documented

refcount-table: boolean (optional)

Not documented

refcount-block: boolean (optional)

Not documented

snapshot-table: boolean (optional)

Not documented

inactive-l1: boolean (optional)

Not documented

inactive-l2: boolean (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.9

Alternate: Qcow2OverlapChecks

Specifies which metadata structures should be guarded against unintended overwriting.

Members:

flags: Qcow2OverlapCheckFlags

set of flags for separate specification of each metadata structure type

mode: Qcow2OverlapCheckMode

named mode which chooses a specific set of flags

Since: 2.9

Enum: BlockdevQcowEncryptionFormat

Values:

aes

AES-CBC with plain64 initialization vectors

Since: 2.10

Object: BlockdevQcowEncryption

Members:

format: BlockdevQcowEncryptionFormat

Not documented

The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsQCow when format is "aes"

Since: 2.10

Object: BlockdevOptionsQcow

Driver specific block device options for qcow.

Members:

encrypt: BlockdevQcowEncryption (optional)

Image decryption options. Mandatory for encrypted images, except when doing a metadata-only probe of the image.

The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat

Since: 2.10

Enum: BlockdevQcow2EncryptionFormat

Values:

aes

AES-CBC with plain64 initialization vectors

luks

Not documented

Since: 2.10

Object: BlockdevQcow2Encryption

Members:

format: BlockdevQcow2EncryptionFormat

Not documented

The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsQCow when format is "aes"
The members of QCryptoBlockOptionsLUKS when format is "luks"

Since: 2.10

Object: BlockdevOptionsQcow2

Driver specific block device options for qcow2.

Members:

lazy-refcounts: boolean (optional)

whether to enable the lazy refcounts feature (default is taken from the image file)

pass-discard-request: boolean (optional)

whether discard requests to the qcow2 device should be forwarded to the data source

pass-discard-snapshot: boolean (optional)

whether discard requests for the data source should be issued when a snapshot operation (e.g. deleting a snapshot) frees clusters in the qcow2 file

pass-discard-other: boolean (optional)

whether discard requests for the data source should be issued on other occasions where a cluster gets freed

overlap-check: Qcow2OverlapChecks (optional)

which overlap checks to perform for writes to the image, defaults to ’cached’ (since 2.2)

cache-size: int (optional)

the maximum total size of the L2 table and refcount block caches in bytes (since 2.2)

l2-cache-size: int (optional)

the maximum size of the L2 table cache in bytes (since 2.2)

l2-cache-entry-size: int (optional)

the size of each entry in the L2 cache in bytes. It must be a power of two between 512 and the cluster size. The default value is the cluster size (since 2.12)

refcount-cache-size: int (optional)

the maximum size of the refcount block cache in bytes (since 2.2)

cache-clean-interval: int (optional)

clean unused entries in the L2 and refcount caches. The interval is in seconds. The default value is 600 on supporting platforms, and 0 on other platforms. 0 disables this feature. (since 2.5)

encrypt: BlockdevQcow2Encryption (optional)

Image decryption options. Mandatory for encrypted images, except when doing a metadata-only probe of the image. (since 2.10)

data-file: BlockdevRef (optional)

reference to or definition of the external data file. This may only be specified for images that require an external data file. If it is not specified for such an image, the data file name is loaded from the image file. (since 4.0)

The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat

Since: 2.9

Enum: SshHostKeyCheckMode

none Don’t check the host key at all hash Compare the host key with a given hash known_hosts Check the host key against the known_hosts file

Values:

none

Not documented

hash

Not documented

known_hosts

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Enum: SshHostKeyCheckHashType

md5 The given hash is an md5 hash sha1 The given hash is an sha1 hash

Values:

md5

Not documented

sha1

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: SshHostKeyHash

type The hash algorithm used for the hash hash The expected hash value

Members:

type: SshHostKeyCheckHashType

Not documented

hash: string

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: SshHostKeyCheck

Members:

mode: SshHostKeyCheckMode

Not documented

The members of SshHostKeyHash when mode is "hash"

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevOptionsSsh

Members:

server: InetSocketAddress

host address

path: string

path to the image on the host

user: string (optional)

user as which to connect, defaults to current local user name

host-key-check: SshHostKeyCheck (optional)

Defines how and what to check the host key against (default: known_hosts)

Since: 2.9

Enum: BlkdebugEvent

Trigger events supported by blkdebug.

Values:

l1_shrink_write_table

write zeros to the l1 table to shrink image. (since 2.11)

l1_shrink_free_l2_clusters

discard the l2 tables. (since 2.11)

cor_write

a write due to copy-on-read (since 2.11)

cluster_alloc_space

an allocation of file space for a cluster (since 4.1)

none

triggers once at creation of the blkdebug node (since 4.1)

l1_update

Not documented

l1_grow_alloc_table

Not documented

l1_grow_write_table

Not documented

l1_grow_activate_table

Not documented

l2_load

Not documented

l2_update

Not documented

l2_update_compressed

Not documented

l2_alloc_cow_read

Not documented

l2_alloc_write

Not documented

read_aio

Not documented

read_backing_aio

Not documented

read_compressed

Not documented

write_aio

Not documented

write_compressed

Not documented

vmstate_load

Not documented

vmstate_save

Not documented

cow_read

Not documented

cow_write

Not documented

reftable_load

Not documented

reftable_grow

Not documented

reftable_update

Not documented

refblock_load

Not documented

refblock_update

Not documented

refblock_update_part

Not documented

refblock_alloc

Not documented

refblock_alloc_hookup

Not documented

refblock_alloc_write

Not documented

refblock_alloc_write_blocks

Not documented

refblock_alloc_write_table

Not documented

refblock_alloc_switch_table

Not documented

cluster_alloc

Not documented

cluster_alloc_bytes

Not documented

cluster_free

Not documented

flush_to_os

Not documented

flush_to_disk

Not documented

pwritev_rmw_head

Not documented

pwritev_rmw_after_head

Not documented

pwritev_rmw_tail

Not documented

pwritev_rmw_after_tail

Not documented

pwritev

Not documented

pwritev_zero

Not documented

pwritev_done

Not documented

empty_image_prepare

Not documented

Since: 2.9

Enum: BlkdebugIOType

Kinds of I/O that blkdebug can inject errors in.

Values:

read

.bdrv_co_preadv()

write

.bdrv_co_pwritev()

write-zeroes

.bdrv_co_pwrite_zeroes()

discard

.bdrv_co_pdiscard()

flush

.bdrv_co_flush_to_disk()

block-status

.bdrv_co_block_status()

Since: 4.1

Object: BlkdebugInjectErrorOptions

Describes a single error injection for blkdebug.

Members:

event: BlkdebugEvent

trigger event

state: int (optional)

the state identifier blkdebug needs to be in to actually trigger the event; defaults to "any"

iotype: BlkdebugIOType (optional)

the type of I/O operations on which this error should be injected; defaults to "all read, write, write-zeroes, discard, and flush operations" (since: 4.1)

errno: int (optional)

error identifier (errno) to be returned; defaults to EIO

sector: int (optional)

specifies the sector index which has to be affected in order to actually trigger the event; defaults to "any sector"

once: boolean (optional)

disables further events after this one has been triggered; defaults to false

immediately: boolean (optional)

fail immediately; defaults to false

Since: 2.9

Object: BlkdebugSetStateOptions

Describes a single state-change event for blkdebug.

Members:

event: BlkdebugEvent

trigger event

state: int (optional)

the current state identifier blkdebug needs to be in; defaults to "any"

new_state: int

the state identifier blkdebug is supposed to assume if this event is triggered

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsBlkdebug

Driver specific block device options for blkdebug.

Members:

image: BlockdevRef

underlying raw block device (or image file)

config: string (optional)

filename of the configuration file

align: int (optional)

required alignment for requests in bytes, must be positive power of 2, or 0 for default

max-transfer: int (optional)

maximum size for I/O transfers in bytes, must be positive multiple of align and of the underlying file’s request alignment (but need not be a power of 2), or 0 for default (since 2.10)

opt-write-zero: int (optional)

preferred alignment for write zero requests in bytes, must be positive multiple of align and of the underlying file’s request alignment (but need not be a power of 2), or 0 for default (since 2.10)

max-write-zero: int (optional)

maximum size for write zero requests in bytes, must be positive multiple of align, of opt-write-zero, and of the underlying file’s request alignment (but need not be a power of 2), or 0 for default (since 2.10)

opt-discard: int (optional)

preferred alignment for discard requests in bytes, must be positive multiple of align and of the underlying file’s request alignment (but need not be a power of 2), or 0 for default (since 2.10)

max-discard: int (optional)

maximum size for discard requests in bytes, must be positive multiple of align, of opt-discard, and of the underlying file’s request alignment (but need not be a power of 2), or 0 for default (since 2.10)

inject-error: array of BlkdebugInjectErrorOptions (optional)

array of error injection descriptions

set-state: array of BlkdebugSetStateOptions (optional)

array of state-change descriptions

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsBlklogwrites

Driver specific block device options for blklogwrites.

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

block device

log: BlockdevRef

block device used to log writes to file

log-sector-size: int (optional)

sector size used in logging writes to file, determines granularity of offsets and sizes of writes (default: 512)

log-append: boolean (optional)

append to an existing log (default: false)

log-super-update-interval: int (optional)

interval of write requests after which the log super block is updated to disk (default: 4096)

Since: 3.0

Object: BlockdevOptionsBlkverify

Driver specific block device options for blkverify.

Members:

test: BlockdevRef

block device to be tested

raw: BlockdevRef

raw image used for verification

Since: 2.9

Enum: QuorumReadPattern

An enumeration of quorum read patterns.

Values:

quorum

read all the children and do a quorum vote on reads

fifo

read only from the first child that has not failed

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsQuorum

Driver specific block device options for Quorum

Members:

blkverify: boolean (optional)

true if the driver must print content mismatch set to false by default

children: array of BlockdevRef

the children block devices to use

vote-threshold: int

the vote limit under which a read will fail

rewrite-corrupted: boolean (optional)

rewrite corrupted data when quorum is reached (Since 2.1)

read-pattern: QuorumReadPattern (optional)

choose read pattern and set to quorum by default (Since 2.2)

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsGluster

Driver specific block device options for Gluster

Members:

volume: string

name of gluster volume where VM image resides

path: string

absolute path to image file in gluster volume

server: array of SocketAddress

gluster servers description

debug: int (optional)

libgfapi log level (default ’4’ which is Error) (Since 2.8)

logfile: string (optional)

libgfapi log file (default /dev/stderr) (Since 2.8)

Since: 2.9

Enum: IscsiTransport

An enumeration of libiscsi transport types

Values:

tcp

Not documented

iser

Not documented

Since: 2.9

Enum: IscsiHeaderDigest

An enumeration of header digests supported by libiscsi

Values:

crc32c

Not documented

none

Not documented

crc32c-none

Not documented

none-crc32c

Not documented

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsIscsi

Members:

transport: IscsiTransport

The iscsi transport type

portal: string

The address of the iscsi portal

target: string

The target iqn name

lun: int (optional)

LUN to connect to. Defaults to 0.

user: string (optional)

User name to log in with. If omitted, no CHAP authentication is performed.

password-secret: string (optional)

The ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing the password for the login. This option is required if user is specified.

initiator-name: string (optional)

The iqn name we want to identify to the target as. If this option is not specified, an initiator name is generated automatically.

header-digest: IscsiHeaderDigest (optional)

The desired header digest. Defaults to none-crc32c.

timeout: int (optional)

Timeout in seconds after which a request will timeout. 0 means no timeout and is the default.

Driver specific block device options for iscsi

Since: 2.9

Enum: RbdAuthMode

Values:

cephx

Not documented

none

Not documented

Since: 3.0

Object: BlockdevOptionsRbd

Members:

pool: string

Ceph pool name.

image: string

Image name in the Ceph pool.

conf: string (optional)

path to Ceph configuration file. Values in the configuration file will be overridden by options specified via QAPI.

snapshot: string (optional)

Ceph snapshot name.

user: string (optional)

Ceph id name.

auth-client-required: array of RbdAuthMode (optional)

Acceptable authentication modes. This maps to Ceph configuration option "auth_client_required". (Since 3.0)

key-secret: string (optional)

ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing a key for cephx authentication. This maps to Ceph configuration option "key". (Since 3.0)

server: array of InetSocketAddressBase (optional)

Monitor host address and port. This maps to the "mon_host" Ceph option.

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsSheepdog

Driver specific block device options for sheepdog

Members:

vdi: string

Virtual disk image name

server: SocketAddress

The Sheepdog server to connect to

snap-id: int (optional)

Snapshot ID

tag: string (optional)

Snapshot tag name

Only one of snap-id and tag may be present.

Since: 2.9

Enum: ReplicationMode

An enumeration of replication modes.

Values:

primary

Primary mode, the vm’s state will be sent to secondary QEMU.

secondary

Secondary mode, receive the vm’s state from primary QEMU.

Since: 2.9

If: defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION)

Object: BlockdevOptionsReplication

Driver specific block device options for replication

Members:

mode: ReplicationMode

the replication mode

top-id: string (optional)

In secondary mode, node name or device ID of the root node who owns the replication node chain. Must not be given in primary mode.

The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat

Since: 2.9

If: defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION)

Enum: NFSTransport

An enumeration of NFS transport types

Values:

inet

TCP transport

Since: 2.9

Object: NFSServer

Captures the address of the socket

Members:

type: NFSTransport

transport type used for NFS (only TCP supported)

host: string

host address for NFS server

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsNfs

Driver specific block device option for NFS

Members:

server: NFSServer

host address

path: string

path of the image on the host

user: int (optional)

UID value to use when talking to the server (defaults to 65534 on Windows and getuid() on unix)

group: int (optional)

GID value to use when talking to the server (defaults to 65534 on Windows and getgid() in unix)

tcp-syn-count: int (optional)

number of SYNs during the session establishment (defaults to libnfs default)

readahead-size: int (optional)

set the readahead size in bytes (defaults to libnfs default)

page-cache-size: int (optional)

set the pagecache size in bytes (defaults to libnfs default)

debug: int (optional)

set the NFS debug level (max 2) (defaults to libnfs default)

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsCurlBase

Driver specific block device options shared by all protocols supported by the curl backend.

Members:

url: string

URL of the image file

readahead: int (optional)

Size of the read-ahead cache; must be a multiple of 512 (defaults to 256 kB)

timeout: int (optional)

Timeout for connections, in seconds (defaults to 5)

username: string (optional)

Username for authentication (defaults to none)

password-secret: string (optional)

ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing a password for authentication (defaults to no password)

proxy-username: string (optional)

Username for proxy authentication (defaults to none)

proxy-password-secret: string (optional)

ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing a password for proxy authentication (defaults to no password)

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsCurlHttp

Driver specific block device options for HTTP connections over the curl backend. URLs must start with "http://".

Members:

cookie: string (optional)

List of cookies to set; format is "name1=content1; name2=content2;" as explained by CURLOPT_COOKIE(3). Defaults to no cookies.

cookie-secret: string (optional)

ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing the cookie data in a secure way. See cookie for the format. (since 2.10)

The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlBase

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsCurlHttps

Driver specific block device options for HTTPS connections over the curl backend. URLs must start with "https://".

Members:

cookie: string (optional)

List of cookies to set; format is "name1=content1; name2=content2;" as explained by CURLOPT_COOKIE(3). Defaults to no cookies.

sslverify: boolean (optional)

Whether to verify the SSL certificate’s validity (defaults to true)

cookie-secret: string (optional)

ID of a QCryptoSecret object providing the cookie data in a secure way. See cookie for the format. (since 2.10)

The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlBase

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsCurlFtp

Driver specific block device options for FTP connections over the curl backend. URLs must start with "ftp://".

Members:

The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlBase

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsCurlFtps

Driver specific block device options for FTPS connections over the curl backend. URLs must start with "ftps://".

Members:

sslverify: boolean (optional)

Whether to verify the SSL certificate’s validity (defaults to true)

The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlBase

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsNbd

Driver specific block device options for NBD.

Members:

server: SocketAddress

NBD server address

export: string (optional)

export name

tls-creds: string (optional)

TLS credentials ID

x-dirty-bitmap: string (optional)

A "qemu:dirty-bitmap:NAME" string to query in place of traditional "base:allocation" block status (see NBD_OPT_LIST_META_CONTEXT in the NBD protocol) (since 3.0)

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsRaw

Driver specific block device options for the raw driver.

Members:

offset: int (optional)

position where the block device starts

size: int (optional)

the assumed size of the device

The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat

Since: 2.9

Object: BlockdevOptionsVxHS

Driver specific block device options for VxHS

Members:

vdisk-id: string

UUID of VxHS volume

server: InetSocketAddressBase

vxhs server IP, port

tls-creds: string (optional)

TLS credentials ID

Since: 2.10

Object: BlockdevOptionsThrottle

Driver specific block device options for the throttle driver

Members:

throttle-group: string

the name of the throttle-group object to use. It must already exist.

file: BlockdevRef

reference to or definition of the data source block device

Since: 2.11

Object: BlockdevOptions

Options for creating a block device. Many options are available for all block devices, independent of the block driver:

Members:

driver: BlockdevDriver

block driver name

node-name: string (optional)

the node name of the new node (Since 2.0). This option is required on the top level of blockdev-add. Valid node names start with an alphabetic character and may contain only alphanumeric characters, ’-’, ’.’ and ’_’. Their maximum length is 31 characters.

discard: BlockdevDiscardOptions (optional)

discard-related options (default: ignore)

cache: BlockdevCacheOptions (optional)

cache-related options

read-only: boolean (optional)

whether the block device should be read-only (default: false). Note that some block drivers support only read-only access, either generally or in certain configurations. In this case, the default value does not work and the option must be specified explicitly.

auto-read-only: boolean (optional)

if true and read-only is false, QEMU may automatically decide not to open the image read-write as requested, but fall back to read-only instead (and switch between the modes later), e.g. depending on whether the image file is writable or whether a writing user is attached to the node (default: false, since 3.1)

detect-zeroes: BlockdevDetectZeroesOptions (optional)

detect and optimize zero writes (Since 2.1) (default: off)

force-share: boolean (optional)

force share all permission on added nodes. Requires read-only=true. (Since 2.10)

The members of BlockdevOptionsBlkdebug when driver is "blkdebug"
The members of BlockdevOptionsBlklogwrites when driver is "blklogwrites"
The members of BlockdevOptionsBlkverify when driver is "blkverify"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is "bochs"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is "cloop"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is "copy-on-read"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is "dmg"
The members of BlockdevOptionsFile when driver is "file"
The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlFtp when driver is "ftp"
The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlFtps when driver is "ftps"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGluster when driver is "gluster"
The members of BlockdevOptionsFile when driver is "host_cdrom"
The members of BlockdevOptionsFile when driver is "host_device"
The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlHttp when driver is "http"
The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlHttps when driver is "https"
The members of BlockdevOptionsIscsi when driver is "iscsi"
The members of BlockdevOptionsLUKS when driver is "luks"
The members of BlockdevOptionsNbd when driver is "nbd"
The members of BlockdevOptionsNfs when driver is "nfs"
The members of BlockdevOptionsNull when driver is "null-aio"
The members of BlockdevOptionsNull when driver is "null-co"
The members of BlockdevOptionsNVMe when driver is "nvme"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is "parallels"
The members of BlockdevOptionsQcow2 when driver is "qcow2"
The members of BlockdevOptionsQcow when driver is "qcow"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat when driver is "qed"
The members of BlockdevOptionsQuorum when driver is "quorum"
The members of BlockdevOptionsRaw when driver is "raw"
The members of BlockdevOptionsRbd when driver is "rbd"
The members of BlockdevOptionsReplication when driver is "replication" (If: defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION))
The members of BlockdevOptionsSheepdog when driver is "sheepdog"
The members of BlockdevOptionsSsh when driver is "ssh"
The members of BlockdevOptionsThrottle when driver is "throttle"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is "vdi"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is "vhdx"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat when driver is "vmdk"
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is "vpc"
The members of BlockdevOptionsVVFAT when driver is "vvfat"
The members of BlockdevOptionsVxHS when driver is "vxhs"

Remaining options are determined by the block driver.

Since: 2.9

Alternate: BlockdevRef

Reference to a block device.

Members:

definition: BlockdevOptions

defines a new block device inline

reference: string

references the ID of an existing block device

Since: 2.9

Alternate: BlockdevRefOrNull

Reference to a block device.

Members:

definition: BlockdevOptions

defines a new block device inline

reference: string

references the ID of an existing block device. An empty string means that no block device should be referenced. Deprecated; use null instead.

null: null

No block device should be referenced (since 2.10)

Since: 2.9

Command: blockdev-add

Creates a new block device. If the id option is given at the top level, a BlockBackend will be created; otherwise, node-name is mandatory at the top level and no BlockBackend will be created.

Arguments: the members of BlockdevOptions

Since: 2.9

Example:

1.
-> { "execute": "blockdev-add",
     "arguments": {
          "driver": "qcow2",
          "node-name": "test1",
          "file": {
              "driver": "file",
              "filename": "test.qcow2"
           }
      }
    }
<- { "return": {} }

2.
-> { "execute": "blockdev-add",
     "arguments": {
          "driver": "qcow2",
          "node-name": "node0",
          "discard": "unmap",
          "cache": {
             "direct": true
           },
           "file": {
             "driver": "file",
             "filename": "/tmp/test.qcow2"
           },
           "backing": {
              "driver": "raw",
              "file": {
                 "driver": "file",
                 "filename": "/dev/fdset/4"
               }
           }
       }
     }

<- { "return": {} }
Command: x-blockdev-reopen

Reopens a block device using the given set of options. Any option not specified will be reset to its default value regardless of its previous status. If an option cannot be changed or a particular driver does not support reopening then the command will return an error.

The top-level node-name option (from BlockdevOptions) must be specified and is used to select the block device to be reopened. Other node-name options must be either omitted or set to the current name of the appropriate node. This command won’t change any node name and any attempt to do it will result in an error.

In the case of options that refer to child nodes, the behavior of this command depends on the value:

1) A set of options (BlockdevOptions): the child is reopened with the specified set of options.

2) A reference to the current child: the child is reopened using its existing set of options.

3) A reference to a different node: the current child is replaced with the specified one.

4) NULL: the current child (if any) is detached.

Options (1) and (2) are supported in all cases, but at the moment only backing allows replacing or detaching an existing child.

Unlike with blockdev-add, the backing option must always be present unless the node being reopened does not have a backing file and its image does not have a default backing file name as part of its metadata.

Arguments: the members of BlockdevOptions

Since: 4.0

Command: blockdev-del

Deletes a block device that has been added using blockdev-add. The command will fail if the node is attached to a device or is otherwise being used.

Arguments:

node-name: string

Name of the graph node to delete.

Since: 2.9

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-add",
     "arguments": {
          "driver": "qcow2",
          "node-name": "node0",
          "file": {
              "driver": "file",
              "filename": "test.qcow2"
          }
     }
   }
<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute": "blockdev-del",
     "arguments": { "node-name": "node0" }
   }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsFile

Driver specific image creation options for file.

filename Filename for the new image file size Size of the virtual disk in bytes preallocation Preallocation mode for the new image (default: off; allowed values: off, falloc (if defined CONFIG_POSIX_FALLOCATE), full (if defined CONFIG_POSIX)) nocow Turn off copy-on-write (valid only on btrfs; default: off)

Members:

filename: string

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

preallocation: PreallocMode (optional)

Not documented

nocow: boolean (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsGluster

Driver specific image creation options for gluster.

location Where to store the new image file size Size of the virtual disk in bytes preallocation Preallocation mode for the new image (default: off; allowed values: off, falloc (if defined CONFIG_GLUSTERFS_FALLOCATE), full (if defined CONFIG_GLUSTERFS_ZEROFILL))

Members:

location: BlockdevOptionsGluster

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

preallocation: PreallocMode (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsLUKS

Driver specific image creation options for LUKS.

file Node to create the image format on size Size of the virtual disk in bytes

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

The members of QCryptoBlockCreateOptionsLUKS

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsNfs

Driver specific image creation options for NFS.

location Where to store the new image file size Size of the virtual disk in bytes

Members:

location: BlockdevOptionsNfs

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsParallels

Driver specific image creation options for parallels.

file Node to create the image format on size Size of the virtual disk in bytes cluster-size Cluster size in bytes (default: 1 MB)

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

cluster-size: int (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow

Driver specific image creation options for qcow.

file Node to create the image format on size Size of the virtual disk in bytes backing-file File name of the backing file if a backing file should be used encrypt Encryption options if the image should be encrypted

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

backing-file: string (optional)

Not documented

encrypt: QCryptoBlockCreateOptions (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Enum: BlockdevQcow2Version

Values:

v2

The original QCOW2 format as introduced in qemu 0.10 (version 2)

v3

The extended QCOW2 format as introduced in qemu 1.1 (version 3)

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow2

Driver specific image creation options for qcow2.

file Node to create the image format on data-file Node to use as an external data file in which all guest data is stored so that only metadata remains in the qcow2 file (since: 4.0) data-file-raw True if the external data file must stay valid as a standalone (read-only) raw image without looking at qcow2 metadata (default: false; since: 4.0) size Size of the virtual disk in bytes version Compatibility level (default: v3) backing-file File name of the backing file if a backing file should be used backing-fmt Name of the block driver to use for the backing file encrypt Encryption options if the image should be encrypted cluster-size qcow2 cluster size in bytes (default: 65536) preallocation Preallocation mode for the new image (default: off; allowed values: off, falloc, full, metadata) lazy-refcounts True if refcounts may be updated lazily (default: off) refcount-bits Width of reference counts in bits (default: 16)

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

data-file: BlockdevRef (optional)

Not documented

data-file-raw: boolean (optional)

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

version: BlockdevQcow2Version (optional)

Not documented

backing-file: string (optional)

Not documented

backing-fmt: BlockdevDriver (optional)

Not documented

encrypt: QCryptoBlockCreateOptions (optional)

Not documented

cluster-size: int (optional)

Not documented

preallocation: PreallocMode (optional)

Not documented

lazy-refcounts: boolean (optional)

Not documented

refcount-bits: int (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsQed

Driver specific image creation options for qed.

file Node to create the image format on size Size of the virtual disk in bytes backing-file File name of the backing file if a backing file should be used backing-fmt Name of the block driver to use for the backing file cluster-size Cluster size in bytes (default: 65536) table-size L1/L2 table size (in clusters)

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

backing-file: string (optional)

Not documented

backing-fmt: BlockdevDriver (optional)

Not documented

cluster-size: int (optional)

Not documented

table-size: int (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsRbd

Driver specific image creation options for rbd/Ceph.

location Where to store the new image file. This location cannot point to a snapshot. size Size of the virtual disk in bytes cluster-size RBD object size

Members:

location: BlockdevOptionsRbd

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

cluster-size: int (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Enum: BlockdevVmdkSubformat

Subformat options for VMDK images

Values:

monolithicSparse

Single file image with sparse cluster allocation

monolithicFlat

Single flat data image and a descriptor file

twoGbMaxExtentSparse

Data is split into 2GB (per virtual LBA) sparse extent files, in addition to a descriptor file

twoGbMaxExtentFlat

Data is split into 2GB (per virtual LBA) flat extent files, in addition to a descriptor file

streamOptimized

Single file image sparse cluster allocation, optimized for streaming over network.

Since: 4.0

Enum: BlockdevVmdkAdapterType

Adapter type info for VMDK images

Values:

ide

Not documented

buslogic

Not documented

lsilogic

Not documented

legacyESX

Not documented

Since: 4.0

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsVmdk

Driver specific image creation options for VMDK.

file Where to store the new image file. This refers to the image file for monolithcSparse and streamOptimized format, or the descriptor file for other formats. size Size of the virtual disk in bytes extents Where to store the data extents. Required for monolithcFlat, twoGbMaxExtentSparse and twoGbMaxExtentFlat formats. For monolithicFlat, only one entry is required; for twoGbMaxExtent* formats, the number of entries required is calculated as extent_number = virtual_size / 2GB. Providing more extents than will be used is an error. subformat The subformat of the VMDK image. Default: "monolithicSparse". backing-file The path of backing file. Default: no backing file is used. adapter-type The adapter type used to fill in the descriptor. Default: ide. hwversion Hardware version. The meaningful options are "4" or "6". Default: "4". zeroed-grain Whether to enable zeroed-grain feature for sparse subformats. Default: false.

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

extents: array of BlockdevRef (optional)

Not documented

subformat: BlockdevVmdkSubformat (optional)

Not documented

backing-file: string (optional)

Not documented

adapter-type: BlockdevVmdkAdapterType (optional)

Not documented

hwversion: string (optional)

Not documented

zeroed-grain: boolean (optional)

Not documented

Since: 4.0

Enum: SheepdogRedundancyType

full Create a fully replicated vdi with x copies erasure-coded Create an erasure coded vdi with x data strips and y parity strips

Values:

full

Not documented

erasure-coded

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: SheepdogRedundancyFull

copies Number of copies to use (between 1 and 31)

Members:

copies: int

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: SheepdogRedundancyErasureCoded

data-strips Number of data strips to use (one of {2,4,8,16}) parity-strips Number of parity strips to use (between 1 and 15)

Members:

data-strips: int

Not documented

parity-strips: int

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: SheepdogRedundancy

Members:

type: SheepdogRedundancyType

Not documented

The members of SheepdogRedundancyFull when type is "full"
The members of SheepdogRedundancyErasureCoded when type is "erasure-coded"

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsSheepdog

Driver specific image creation options for Sheepdog.

location Where to store the new image file size Size of the virtual disk in bytes backing-file File name of a base image preallocation Preallocation mode for the new image (default: off; allowed values: off, full) redundancy Redundancy of the image object-size Object size of the image

Members:

location: BlockdevOptionsSheepdog

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

backing-file: string (optional)

Not documented

preallocation: PreallocMode (optional)

Not documented

redundancy: SheepdogRedundancy (optional)

Not documented

object-size: int (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsSsh

Driver specific image creation options for SSH.

location Where to store the new image file size Size of the virtual disk in bytes

Members:

location: BlockdevOptionsSsh

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsVdi

Driver specific image creation options for VDI.

file Node to create the image format on size Size of the virtual disk in bytes preallocation Preallocation mode for the new image (default: off; allowed values: off, metadata)

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

preallocation: PreallocMode (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Enum: BlockdevVhdxSubformat

Values:

dynamic

Growing image file

fixed

Preallocated fixed-size image file

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsVhdx

Driver specific image creation options for vhdx.

file Node to create the image format on size Size of the virtual disk in bytes log-size Log size in bytes, must be a multiple of 1 MB (default: 1 MB) block-size Block size in bytes, must be a multiple of 1 MB and not larger than 256 MB (default: automatically choose a block size depending on the image size) subformat vhdx subformat (default: dynamic) block-state-zero Force use of payload blocks of type ’ZERO’. Non-standard, but default. Do not set to ’off’ when using ’qemu-img convert’ with subformat=dynamic.

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

log-size: int (optional)

Not documented

block-size: int (optional)

Not documented

subformat: BlockdevVhdxSubformat (optional)

Not documented

block-state-zero: boolean (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Enum: BlockdevVpcSubformat

Values:

dynamic

Growing image file

fixed

Preallocated fixed-size image file

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptionsVpc

Driver specific image creation options for vpc (VHD).

file Node to create the image format on size Size of the virtual disk in bytes subformat vhdx subformat (default: dynamic) force-size Force use of the exact byte size instead of rounding to the next size that can be represented in CHS geometry (default: false)

Members:

file: BlockdevRef

Not documented

size: int

Not documented

subformat: BlockdevVpcSubformat (optional)

Not documented

force-size: boolean (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: BlockdevCreateOptions

Options for creating an image format on a given node.

driver block driver to create the image format

Members:

driver: BlockdevDriver

Not documented

The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsFile when driver is "file"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsGluster when driver is "gluster"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsLUKS when driver is "luks"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsNfs when driver is "nfs"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsParallels when driver is "parallels"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow when driver is "qcow"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow2 when driver is "qcow2"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsQed when driver is "qed"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsRbd when driver is "rbd"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsSheepdog when driver is "sheepdog"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsSsh when driver is "ssh"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsVdi when driver is "vdi"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsVhdx when driver is "vhdx"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsVmdk when driver is "vmdk"
The members of BlockdevCreateOptionsVpc when driver is "vpc"

Since: 2.12

Command: blockdev-create

Starts a job to create an image format on a given node. The job is automatically finalized, but a manual job-dismiss is required.

Arguments:

job-id: string

Identifier for the newly created job.

options: BlockdevCreateOptions

Options for the image creation.

Since: 3.0

Command: blockdev-open-tray

Opens a block device’s tray. If there is a block driver state tree inserted as a medium, it will become inaccessible to the guest (but it will remain associated to the block device, so closing the tray will make it accessible again).

If the tray was already open before, this will be a no-op.

Once the tray opens, a DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED event is emitted. There are cases in which no such event will be generated, these include:

Arguments:

device: string (optional)

Block device name (deprecated, use id instead)

id: string (optional)

The name or QOM path of the guest device (since: 2.8)

force: boolean (optional)

if false (the default), an eject request will be sent to the guest if it has locked the tray (and the tray will not be opened immediately); if true, the tray will be opened regardless of whether it is locked

Since: 2.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-open-tray",
     "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0" } }

<- { "timestamp": { "seconds": 1418751016,
                    "microseconds": 716996 },
     "event": "DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED",
     "data": { "device": "ide1-cd0",
               "id": "ide0-1-0",
               "tray-open": true } }

<- { "return": {} }
Command: blockdev-close-tray

Closes a block device’s tray. If there is a block driver state tree associated with the block device (which is currently ejected), that tree will be loaded as the medium.

If the tray was already closed before, this will be a no-op.

Arguments:

device: string (optional)

Block device name (deprecated, use id instead)

id: string (optional)

The name or QOM path of the guest device (since: 2.8)

Since: 2.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-close-tray",
     "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0" } }

<- { "timestamp": { "seconds": 1418751345,
                    "microseconds": 272147 },
     "event": "DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED",
     "data": { "device": "ide1-cd0",
               "id": "ide0-1-0",
               "tray-open": false } }

<- { "return": {} }
Command: blockdev-remove-medium

Removes a medium (a block driver state tree) from a block device. That block device’s tray must currently be open (unless there is no attached guest device).

If the tray is open and there is no medium inserted, this will be a no-op.

Arguments:

id: string

The name or QOM path of the guest device

Since: 2.12

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-remove-medium",
     "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0" } }

<- { "error": { "class": "GenericError",
                "desc": "Tray of device 'ide0-1-0' is not open" } }

-> { "execute": "blockdev-open-tray",
     "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0" } }

<- { "timestamp": { "seconds": 1418751627,
                    "microseconds": 549958 },
     "event": "DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED",
     "data": { "device": "ide1-cd0",
               "id": "ide0-1-0",
               "tray-open": true } }

<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute": "blockdev-remove-medium",
     "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0" } }

<- { "return": {} }
Command: blockdev-insert-medium

Inserts a medium (a block driver state tree) into a block device. That block device’s tray must currently be open (unless there is no attached guest device) and there must be no medium inserted already.

Arguments:

id: string

The name or QOM path of the guest device

node-name: string

name of a node in the block driver state graph

Since: 2.12

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-add",
     "arguments": {
         "node-name": "node0",
         "driver": "raw",
         "file": { "driver": "file",
                   "filename": "fedora.iso" } } }
<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute": "blockdev-insert-medium",
     "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0",
                    "node-name": "node0" } }

<- { "return": {} }
Enum: BlockdevChangeReadOnlyMode

Specifies the new read-only mode of a block device subject to the blockdev-change-medium command.

Values:

retain

Retains the current read-only mode

read-only

Makes the device read-only

read-write

Makes the device writable

Since: 2.3

Command: blockdev-change-medium

Changes the medium inserted into a block device by ejecting the current medium and loading a new image file which is inserted as the new medium (this command combines blockdev-open-tray, blockdev-remove-medium, blockdev-insert-medium and blockdev-close-tray).

Arguments:

device: string (optional)

Block device name (deprecated, use id instead)

id: string (optional)

The name or QOM path of the guest device (since: 2.8)

filename: string

filename of the new image to be loaded

format: string (optional)

format to open the new image with (defaults to the probed format)

read-only-mode: BlockdevChangeReadOnlyMode (optional)

change the read-only mode of the device; defaults to ’retain’

Since: 2.5

Examples:

1. Change a removable medium

-> { "execute": "blockdev-change-medium",
     "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0",
                    "filename": "/srv/images/Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso",
                    "format": "raw" } }
<- { "return": {} }

2. Load a read-only medium into a writable drive

-> { "execute": "blockdev-change-medium",
     "arguments": { "id": "floppyA",
                    "filename": "/srv/images/ro.img",
                    "format": "raw",
                    "read-only-mode": "retain" } }

<- { "error":
     { "class": "GenericError",
       "desc": "Could not open '/srv/images/ro.img': Permission denied" } }

-> { "execute": "blockdev-change-medium",
     "arguments": { "id": "floppyA",
                    "filename": "/srv/images/ro.img",
                    "format": "raw",
                    "read-only-mode": "read-only" } }

<- { "return": {} }
Enum: BlockErrorAction

An enumeration of action that has been taken when a DISK I/O occurs

Values:

ignore

error has been ignored

report

error has been reported to the device

stop

error caused VM to be stopped

Since: 2.1

Event: BLOCK_IMAGE_CORRUPTED

Emitted when a disk image is being marked corrupt. The image can be identified by its device or node name. The ’device’ field is always present for compatibility reasons, but it can be empty ("") if the image does not have a device name associated.

Arguments:

device: string

device name. This is always present for compatibility reasons, but it can be empty ("") if the image does not have a device name associated.

node-name: string (optional)

node name (Since: 2.4)

msg: string

informative message for human consumption, such as the kind of corruption being detected. It should not be parsed by machine as it is not guaranteed to be stable

offset: int (optional)

if the corruption resulted from an image access, this is the host’s access offset into the image

size: int (optional)

if the corruption resulted from an image access, this is the access size

fatal: boolean

if set, the image is marked corrupt and therefore unusable after this event and must be repaired (Since 2.2; before, every BLOCK_IMAGE_CORRUPTED event was fatal)

Note: If action is "stop", a STOP event will eventually follow the BLOCK_IO_ERROR event.

Example:

<- { "event": "BLOCK_IMAGE_CORRUPTED",
     "data": { "device": "ide0-hd0", "node-name": "node0",
               "msg": "Prevented active L1 table overwrite", "offset": 196608,
               "size": 65536 },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1378126126, "microseconds": 966463 } }

Since: 1.7

Event: BLOCK_IO_ERROR

Emitted when a disk I/O error occurs

Arguments:

device: string

device name. This is always present for compatibility reasons, but it can be empty ("") if the image does not have a device name associated.

node-name: string (optional)

node name. Note that errors may be reported for the root node that is directly attached to a guest device rather than for the node where the error occurred. The node name is not present if the drive is empty. (Since: 2.8)

operation: IoOperationType

I/O operation

action: BlockErrorAction

action that has been taken

nospace: boolean (optional)

true if I/O error was caused due to a no-space condition. This key is only present if query-block’s io-status is present, please see query-block documentation for more information (since: 2.2)

reason: string

human readable string describing the error cause. (This field is a debugging aid for humans, it should not be parsed by applications) (since: 2.2)

Note: If action is "stop", a STOP event will eventually follow the BLOCK_IO_ERROR event

Since: 0.13.0

Example:

<- { "event": "BLOCK_IO_ERROR",
     "data": { "device": "ide0-hd1",
               "node-name": "#block212",
               "operation": "write",
               "action": "stop" },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1265044230, "microseconds": 450486 } }
Event: BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED

Emitted when a block job has completed

Arguments:

type: JobType

job type

device: string

The job identifier. Originally the device name but other values are allowed since QEMU 2.7

len: int

maximum progress value

offset: int

current progress value. On success this is equal to len. On failure this is less than len

speed: int

rate limit, bytes per second

error: string (optional)

error message. Only present on failure. This field contains a human-readable error message. There are no semantics other than that streaming has failed and clients should not try to interpret the error string

Since: 1.1

Example:

<- { "event": "BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED",
     "data": { "type": "stream", "device": "virtio-disk0",
               "len": 10737418240, "offset": 10737418240,
               "speed": 0 },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267061043, "microseconds": 959568 } }
Event: BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED

Emitted when a block job has been cancelled

Arguments:

type: JobType

job type

device: string

The job identifier. Originally the device name but other values are allowed since QEMU 2.7

len: int

maximum progress value

offset: int

current progress value. On success this is equal to len. On failure this is less than len

speed: int

rate limit, bytes per second

Since: 1.1

Example:

<- { "event": "BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED",
     "data": { "type": "stream", "device": "virtio-disk0",
               "len": 10737418240, "offset": 134217728,
               "speed": 0 },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267061043, "microseconds": 959568 } }
Event: BLOCK_JOB_ERROR

Emitted when a block job encounters an error

Arguments:

device: string

The job identifier. Originally the device name but other values are allowed since QEMU 2.7

operation: IoOperationType

I/O operation

action: BlockErrorAction

action that has been taken

Since: 1.3

Example:

<- { "event": "BLOCK_JOB_ERROR",
     "data": { "device": "ide0-hd1",
               "operation": "write",
               "action": "stop" },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1265044230, "microseconds": 450486 } }
Event: BLOCK_JOB_READY

Emitted when a block job is ready to complete

Arguments:

type: JobType

job type

device: string

The job identifier. Originally the device name but other values are allowed since QEMU 2.7

len: int

maximum progress value

offset: int

current progress value. On success this is equal to len. On failure this is less than len

speed: int

rate limit, bytes per second

Note: The "ready to complete" status is always reset by a BLOCK_JOB_ERROR event

Since: 1.3

Example:

<- { "event": "BLOCK_JOB_READY",
     "data": { "device": "drive0", "type": "mirror", "speed": 0,
               "len": 2097152, "offset": 2097152 }
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1265044230, "microseconds": 450486 } }
Event: BLOCK_JOB_PENDING

Emitted when a block job is awaiting explicit authorization to finalize graph changes via block-job-finalize. If this job is part of a transaction, it will not emit this event until the transaction has converged first.

Arguments:

type: JobType

job type

id: string

The job identifier.

Since: 2.12

Example:

<- { "event": "BLOCK_JOB_WAITING",
     "data": { "device": "drive0", "type": "mirror" },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1265044230, "microseconds": 450486 } }
Enum: PreallocMode

Preallocation mode of QEMU image file

Values:

off

no preallocation

metadata

preallocate only for metadata

falloc

like full preallocation but allocate disk space by posix_fallocate() rather than writing zeros.

full

preallocate all data by writing zeros to device to ensure disk space is really available. full preallocation also sets up metadata correctly.

Since: 2.2

Event: BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD

Emitted when writes on block device reaches or exceeds the configured write threshold. For thin-provisioned devices, this means the device should be extended to avoid pausing for disk exhaustion. The event is one shot. Once triggered, it needs to be re-registered with another block-set-write-threshold command.

Arguments:

node-name: string

graph node name on which the threshold was exceeded.

amount-exceeded: int

amount of data which exceeded the threshold, in bytes.

write-threshold: int

last configured threshold, in bytes.

Since: 2.3

Command: block-set-write-threshold

Change the write threshold for a block drive. An event will be delivered if a write to this block drive crosses the configured threshold. The threshold is an offset, thus must be non-negative. Default is no write threshold. Setting the threshold to zero disables it.

This is useful to transparently resize thin-provisioned drives without the guest OS noticing.

Arguments:

node-name: string

graph node name on which the threshold must be set.

write-threshold: int

configured threshold for the block device, bytes. Use 0 to disable the threshold.

Since: 2.3

Example:

-> { "execute": "block-set-write-threshold",
     "arguments": { "node-name": "mydev",
                    "write-threshold": 17179869184 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: x-blockdev-change

Dynamically reconfigure the block driver state graph. It can be used to add, remove, insert or replace a graph node. Currently only the Quorum driver implements this feature to add or remove its child. This is useful to fix a broken quorum child.

If node is specified, it will be inserted under parent. child may not be specified in this case. If both parent and child are specified but node is not, child will be detached from parent.

Arguments:

parent: string

the id or name of the parent node.

child: string (optional)

the name of a child under the given parent node.

node: string (optional)

the name of the node that will be added.

Note: this command is experimental, and its API is not stable. It does not support all kinds of operations, all kinds of children, nor all block drivers.

FIXME Removing children from a quorum node means introducing gaps in the child indices. This cannot be represented in the ’children’ list of BlockdevOptionsQuorum, as returned by .bdrv_refresh_filename().

Warning: The data in a new quorum child MUST be consistent with that of the rest of the array.

Since: 2.7

Example:

1. Add a new node to a quorum
-> { "execute": "blockdev-add",
     "arguments": {
         "driver": "raw",
         "node-name": "new_node",
         "file": { "driver": "file",
                   "filename": "test.raw" } } }
<- { "return": {} }
-> { "execute": "x-blockdev-change",
     "arguments": { "parent": "disk1",
                    "node": "new_node" } }
<- { "return": {} }

2. Delete a quorum's node
-> { "execute": "x-blockdev-change",
     "arguments": { "parent": "disk1",
                    "child": "children.1" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: x-blockdev-set-iothread

Move node and its children into the iothread. If iothread is null then move node and its children into the main loop.

The node must not be attached to a BlockBackend.

Arguments:

node-name: string

the name of the block driver node

iothread: StrOrNull

the name of the IOThread object or null for the main loop

force: boolean (optional)

true if the node and its children should be moved when a BlockBackend is already attached

Note: this command is experimental and intended for test cases that need control over IOThreads only.

Since: 2.12

Example:

1. Move a node into an IOThread
-> { "execute": "x-blockdev-set-iothread",
     "arguments": { "node-name": "disk1",
                    "iothread": "iothread0" } }
<- { "return": {} }

2. Move a node into the main loop
-> { "execute": "x-blockdev-set-iothread",
     "arguments": { "node-name": "disk1",
                    "iothread": null } }
<- { "return": {} }

1.7.3 Additional block stuff (VM related)

Enum: BiosAtaTranslation

Policy that BIOS should use to interpret cylinder/head/sector addresses. Note that Bochs BIOS and SeaBIOS will not actually translate logical CHS to physical; instead, they will use logical block addressing.

Values:

auto

If cylinder/heads/sizes are passed, choose between none and LBA depending on the size of the disk. If they are not passed, choose none if QEMU can guess that the disk had 16 or fewer heads, large if QEMU can guess that the disk had 131072 or fewer tracks across all heads (i.e. cylinders*heads<131072), otherwise LBA.

none

The physical disk geometry is equal to the logical geometry.

lba

Assume 63 sectors per track and one of 16, 32, 64, 128 or 255 heads (if fewer than 255 are enough to cover the whole disk with 1024 cylinders/head). The number of cylinders/head is then computed based on the number of sectors and heads.

large

The number of cylinders per head is scaled down to 1024 by correspondingly scaling up the number of heads.

rechs

Same as large, but first convert a 16-head geometry to 15-head, by proportionally scaling up the number of cylinders/head.

Since: 2.0

Enum: FloppyDriveType

Type of Floppy drive to be emulated by the Floppy Disk Controller.

Values:

144

1.44MB 3.5" drive

288

2.88MB 3.5" drive

120

1.2MB 5.25" drive

none

No drive connected

auto

Automatically determined by inserted media at boot

Since: 2.6

Object: BlockdevSnapshotInternal

Members:

device: string

the device name or node-name of a root node to generate the snapshot from

name: string

the name of the internal snapshot to be created

Notes: In transaction, if name is empty, or any snapshot matching name exists, the operation will fail. Only some image formats support it, for example, qcow2, rbd, and sheepdog.

Since: 1.7

Object: PRManagerInfo

Information about a persistent reservation manager

Members:

id: string

the identifier of the persistent reservation manager

connected: boolean

true if the persistent reservation manager is connected to the underlying storage or helper

Since: 3.0

Command: query-pr-managers

Returns a list of information about each persistent reservation manager.

Returns: a list of PRManagerInfo for each persistent reservation manager

Since: 3.0

Command: blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync

Synchronously take an internal snapshot of a block device, when the format of the image used supports it. If the name is an empty string, or a snapshot with name already exists, the operation will fail.

For the arguments, see the documentation of BlockdevSnapshotInternal.

Returns: nothing on success

If device is not a valid block device, GenericError

If any snapshot matching name exists, or name is empty, GenericError

If the format of the image used does not support it, BlockFormatFeatureNotSupported

Since: 1.7

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync",
     "arguments": { "device": "ide-hd0",
                    "name": "snapshot0" }
   }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: blockdev-snapshot-delete-internal-sync

Synchronously delete an internal snapshot of a block device, when the format of the image used support it. The snapshot is identified by name or id or both. One of the name or id is required. Return SnapshotInfo for the successfully deleted snapshot.

Arguments:

device: string

the device name or node-name of a root node to delete the snapshot from

id: string (optional)

optional the snapshot’s ID to be deleted

name: string (optional)

optional the snapshot’s name to be deleted

Returns: SnapshotInfo on success If device is not a valid block device, GenericError If snapshot not found, GenericError If the format of the image used does not support it, BlockFormatFeatureNotSupported If id and name are both not specified, GenericError

Since: 1.7

Example:

-> { "execute": "blockdev-snapshot-delete-internal-sync",
     "arguments": { "device": "ide-hd0",
                    "name": "snapshot0" }
   }
<- { "return": {
                   "id": "1",
                   "name": "snapshot0",
                   "vm-state-size": 0,
                   "date-sec": 1000012,
                   "date-nsec": 10,
                   "vm-clock-sec": 100,
                   "vm-clock-nsec": 20
     }
   }
Command: eject

Ejects a device from a removable drive.

Arguments:

device: string (optional)

Block device name (deprecated, use id instead)

id: string (optional)

The name or QOM path of the guest device (since: 2.8)

force: boolean (optional)

If true, eject regardless of whether the drive is locked. If not specified, the default value is false.

Returns: Nothing on success

If device is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound

Notes: Ejecting a device with no media results in success

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "eject", "arguments": { "id": "ide1-0-1" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: nbd-server-start

Start an NBD server listening on the given host and port. Block devices can then be exported using nbd-server-add. The NBD server will present them as named exports; for example, another QEMU instance could refer to them as "nbd:HOST:PORT:exportname=NAME".

Arguments:

addr: SocketAddressLegacy

Address on which to listen.

tls-creds: string (optional)

ID of the TLS credentials object (since 2.6).

tls-authz: string (optional)

ID of the QAuthZ authorization object used to validate the client’s x509 distinguished name. This object is is only resolved at time of use, so can be deleted and recreated on the fly while the NBD server is active. If missing, it will default to denying access (since 4.0).

Returns: error if the server is already running.

Since: 1.3.0

Command: nbd-server-add

Export a block node to QEMU’s embedded NBD server.

Arguments:

device: string

The device name or node name of the node to be exported

name: string (optional)

Export name. If unspecified, the device parameter is used as the export name. (Since 2.12)

writable: boolean (optional)

Whether clients should be able to write to the device via the NBD connection (default false).

bitmap: string (optional)

Also export the dirty bitmap reachable from device, so the NBD client can use NBD_OPT_SET_META_CONTEXT with "qemu:dirty-bitmap:NAME" to inspect the bitmap. (since 4.0)

Returns: error if the server is not running, or export with the same name already exists.

Since: 1.3.0

Enum: NbdServerRemoveMode

Mode for removing an NBD export.

Values:

safe

Remove export if there are no existing connections, fail otherwise.

hard

Drop all connections immediately and remove export.

Potential additional modes to be added in the future:

hide: Just hide export from new clients, leave existing connections as is. Remove export after all clients are disconnected.

soft: Hide export from new clients, answer with ESHUTDOWN for all further requests from existing clients.

Since: 2.12

Command: nbd-server-remove

Remove NBD export by name.

Arguments:

name: string

Export name.

mode: NbdServerRemoveMode (optional)

Mode of command operation. See NbdServerRemoveMode description. Default is ’safe’.

Returns: error if

Since: 2.12

Command: nbd-server-stop

Stop QEMU’s embedded NBD server, and unregister all devices previously added via nbd-server-add.

Since: 1.3.0

Event: DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED

Emitted whenever the tray of a removable device is moved by the guest or by HMP/QMP commands

Arguments:

device: string

Block device name. This is always present for compatibility reasons, but it can be empty ("") if the image does not have a device name associated.

id: string

The name or QOM path of the guest device (since 2.8)

tray-open: boolean

true if the tray has been opened or false if it has been closed

Since: 1.1

Example:

<- { "event": "DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED",
     "data": { "device": "ide1-cd0",
               "id": "/machine/unattached/device[22]",
               "tray-open": true
     },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1265044230, "microseconds": 450486 } }
Event: PR_MANAGER_STATUS_CHANGED

Emitted whenever the connected status of a persistent reservation manager changes.

Arguments:

id: string

The id of the PR manager object

connected: boolean

true if the PR manager is connected to a backend

Since: 3.0

Example:

<- { "event": "PR_MANAGER_STATUS_CHANGED",
     "data": { "id": "pr-helper0",
               "connected": true
     },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1519840375, "microseconds": 450486 } }
Enum: QuorumOpType

An enumeration of the quorum operation types

Values:

read

read operation

write

write operation

flush

flush operation

Since: 2.6

Event: QUORUM_FAILURE

Emitted by the Quorum block driver if it fails to establish a quorum

Arguments:

reference: string

device name if defined else node name

sector-num: int

number of the first sector of the failed read operation

sectors-count: int

failed read operation sector count

Note: This event is rate-limited.

Since: 2.0

Example:

<- { "event": "QUORUM_FAILURE",
     "data": { "reference": "usr1", "sector-num": 345435, "sectors-count": 5 },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1344522075, "microseconds": 745528 } }
Event: QUORUM_REPORT_BAD

Emitted to report a corruption of a Quorum file

Arguments:

type: QuorumOpType

quorum operation type (Since 2.6)

error: string (optional)

error message. Only present on failure. This field contains a human-readable error message. There are no semantics other than that the block layer reported an error and clients should not try to interpret the error string.

node-name: string

the graph node name of the block driver state

sector-num: int

number of the first sector of the failed read operation

sectors-count: int

failed read operation sector count

Note: This event is rate-limited.

Since: 2.0

Example:

1. Read operation

{ "event": "QUORUM_REPORT_BAD",
     "data": { "node-name": "node0", "sector-num": 345435, "sectors-count": 5,
               "type": "read" },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1344522075, "microseconds": 745528 } }

2. Flush operation

{ "event": "QUORUM_REPORT_BAD",
     "data": { "node-name": "node0", "sector-num": 0, "sectors-count": 2097120,
               "type": "flush", "error": "Broken pipe" },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1456406829, "microseconds": 291763 } }

1.8 Character devices

Object: ChardevInfo

Information about a character device.

Members:

label: string

the label of the character device

filename: string

the filename of the character device

frontend-open: boolean

shows whether the frontend device attached to this backend (eg. with the chardev=... option) is in open or closed state (since 2.1)

Notes: filename is encoded using the QEMU command line character device encoding. See the QEMU man page for details.

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-chardev

Returns information about current character devices.

Returns: a list of ChardevInfo

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-chardev" }
<- {
      "return": [
         {
            "label": "charchannel0",
            "filename": "unix:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/seabios.rhel6.agent,server",
            "frontend-open": false
         },
         {
            "label": "charmonitor",
            "filename": "unix:/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/seabios.rhel6.monitor,server",
            "frontend-open": true
         },
         {
            "label": "charserial0",
            "filename": "pty:/dev/pts/2",
            "frontend-open": true
         }
      ]
   }
Object: ChardevBackendInfo

Information about a character device backend

Members:

name: string

The backend name

Since: 2.0

Command: query-chardev-backends

Returns information about character device backends.

Returns: a list of ChardevBackendInfo

Since: 2.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-chardev-backends" }
<- {
      "return":[
         {
            "name":"udp"
         },
         {
            "name":"tcp"
         },
         {
            "name":"unix"
         },
         {
            "name":"spiceport"
         }
      ]
   }
Enum: DataFormat

An enumeration of data format.

Values:

utf8

Data is a UTF-8 string (RFC 3629)

base64

Data is Base64 encoded binary (RFC 3548)

Since: 1.4

Command: ringbuf-write

Write to a ring buffer character device.

Arguments:

device: string

the ring buffer character device name

data: string

data to write

format: DataFormat (optional)

data encoding (default ’utf8’).

  • - base64: data must be base64 encoded text. Its binary decoding gets written.
  • - utf8: data’s UTF-8 encoding is written
  • - data itself is always Unicode regardless of format, like any other string.

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 1.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "ringbuf-write",
     "arguments": { "device": "foo",
                    "data": "abcdefgh",
                    "format": "utf8" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: ringbuf-read

Read from a ring buffer character device.

Arguments:

device: string

the ring buffer character device name

size: int

how many bytes to read at most

format: DataFormat (optional)

data encoding (default ’utf8’).

  • - base64: the data read is returned in base64 encoding.
  • - utf8: the data read is interpreted as UTF-8. Bug: can screw up when the buffer contains invalid UTF-8 sequences, NUL characters, after the ring buffer lost data, and when reading stops because the size limit is reached.
  • - The return value is always Unicode regardless of format, like any other string.

Returns: data read from the device

Since: 1.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "ringbuf-read",
     "arguments": { "device": "foo",
                    "size": 1000,
                    "format": "utf8" } }
<- { "return": "abcdefgh" }
Object: ChardevCommon

Configuration shared across all chardev backends

Members:

logfile: string (optional)

The name of a logfile to save output

logappend: boolean (optional)

true to append instead of truncate (default to false to truncate)

Since: 2.6

Object: ChardevFile

Configuration info for file chardevs.

Members:

in: string (optional)

The name of the input file

out: string

The name of the output file

append: boolean (optional)

Open the file in append mode (default false to truncate) (Since 2.6)

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.4

Object: ChardevHostdev

Configuration info for device and pipe chardevs.

Members:

device: string

The name of the special file for the device, i.e. /dev/ttyS0 on Unix or COM1: on Windows

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.4

Object: ChardevSocket

Configuration info for (stream) socket chardevs.

Members:

addr: SocketAddressLegacy

socket address to listen on (server=true) or connect to (server=false)

tls-creds: string (optional)

the ID of the TLS credentials object (since 2.6)

tls-authz: string (optional)

the ID of the QAuthZ authorization object against which the client’s x509 distinguished name will be validated. This object is only resolved at time of use, so can be deleted and recreated on the fly while the chardev server is active. If missing, it will default to denying access (since 4.0)

server: boolean (optional)

create server socket (default: true)

wait: boolean (optional)

wait for incoming connection on server sockets (default: false).

nodelay: boolean (optional)

set TCP_NODELAY socket option (default: false)

telnet: boolean (optional)

enable telnet protocol on server sockets (default: false)

tn3270: boolean (optional)

enable tn3270 protocol on server sockets (default: false) (Since: 2.10)

websocket: boolean (optional)

enable websocket protocol on server sockets (default: false) (Since: 3.1)

reconnect: int (optional)

For a client socket, if a socket is disconnected, then attempt a reconnect after the given number of seconds. Setting this to zero disables this function. (default: 0) (Since: 2.2)

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.4

Object: ChardevUdp

Configuration info for datagram socket chardevs.

Members:

remote: SocketAddressLegacy

remote address

local: SocketAddressLegacy (optional)

local address

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

Object: ChardevMux

Configuration info for mux chardevs.

Members:

chardev: string

name of the base chardev.

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

Object: ChardevStdio

Configuration info for stdio chardevs.

Members:

signal: boolean (optional)

Allow signals (such as SIGINT triggered by ^C) be delivered to qemu. Default: true in -nographic mode, false otherwise.

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

Object: ChardevSpiceChannel

Configuration info for spice vm channel chardevs.

Members:

type: string

kind of channel (for example vdagent).

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Object: ChardevSpicePort

Configuration info for spice port chardevs.

Members:

fqdn: string

name of the channel (see docs/spice-port-fqdn.txt)

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Object: ChardevVC

Configuration info for virtual console chardevs.

Members:

width: int (optional)

console width, in pixels

height: int (optional)

console height, in pixels

cols: int (optional)

console width, in chars

rows: int (optional)

console height, in chars

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

Object: ChardevRingbuf

Configuration info for ring buffer chardevs.

Members:

size: int (optional)

ring buffer size, must be power of two, default is 65536

The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

Object: ChardevBackend

Configuration info for the new chardev backend.

Members:

type

One of "file", "serial", "parallel", "pipe", "socket", "udp", "pty", "null", "mux", "msmouse", "wctablet", "braille", "testdev", "stdio", "console", "spicevmc", "spiceport", "vc", "ringbuf", "memory"

data: ChardevFile when type is "file"
data: ChardevHostdev when type is "serial"
data: ChardevHostdev when type is "parallel"
data: ChardevHostdev when type is "pipe"
data: ChardevSocket when type is "socket"
data: ChardevUdp when type is "udp"
data: ChardevCommon when type is "pty"
data: ChardevCommon when type is "null"
data: ChardevMux when type is "mux"
data: ChardevCommon when type is "msmouse"
data: ChardevCommon when type is "wctablet"
data: ChardevCommon when type is "braille"
data: ChardevCommon when type is "testdev"
data: ChardevStdio when type is "stdio"
data: ChardevCommon when type is "console"
data: ChardevSpiceChannel when type is "spicevmc" (If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE))
data: ChardevSpicePort when type is "spiceport" (If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE))
data: ChardevVC when type is "vc"
data: ChardevRingbuf when type is "ringbuf"
data: ChardevRingbuf when type is "memory"

Since: 1.4 (testdev since 2.2, wctablet since 2.9)

Object: ChardevReturn

Return info about the chardev backend just created.

Members:

pty: string (optional)

name of the slave pseudoterminal device, present if and only if a chardev of type ’pty’ was created

Since: 1.4

Command: chardev-add

Add a character device backend

Arguments:

id: string

the chardev’s ID, must be unique

backend: ChardevBackend

backend type and parameters

Returns: ChardevReturn.

Since: 1.4

Example:

-> { "execute" : "chardev-add",
     "arguments" : { "id" : "foo",
                     "backend" : { "type" : "null", "data" : {} } } }
<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute" : "chardev-add",
     "arguments" : { "id" : "bar",
                     "backend" : { "type" : "file",
                                   "data" : { "out" : "/tmp/bar.log" } } } }
<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute" : "chardev-add",
     "arguments" : { "id" : "baz",
                     "backend" : { "type" : "pty", "data" : {} } } }
<- { "return": { "pty" : "/dev/pty/42" } }
Command: chardev-change

Change a character device backend

Arguments:

id: string

the chardev’s ID, must exist

backend: ChardevBackend

new backend type and parameters

Returns: ChardevReturn.

Since: 2.10

Example:

-> { "execute" : "chardev-change",
     "arguments" : { "id" : "baz",
                     "backend" : { "type" : "pty", "data" : {} } } }
<- { "return": { "pty" : "/dev/pty/42" } }

-> {"execute" : "chardev-change",
    "arguments" : {
        "id" : "charchannel2",
        "backend" : {
            "type" : "socket",
            "data" : {
                "addr" : {
                    "type" : "unix" ,
                    "data" : {
                        "path" : "/tmp/charchannel2.socket"
                    }
                 },
                 "server" : true,
                 "wait" : false }}}}
<- {"return": {}}
Command: chardev-remove

Remove a character device backend

Arguments:

id: string

the chardev’s ID, must exist and not be in use

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 1.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "chardev-remove", "arguments": { "id" : "foo" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: chardev-send-break

Send a break to a character device

Arguments:

id: string

the chardev’s ID, must exist

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 2.10

Example:

-> { "execute": "chardev-send-break", "arguments": { "id" : "foo" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Event: VSERPORT_CHANGE

Emitted when the guest opens or closes a virtio-serial port.

Arguments:

id: string

device identifier of the virtio-serial port

open: boolean

true if the guest has opened the virtio-serial port

Since: 2.1

Example:

<- { "event": "VSERPORT_CHANGE",
     "data": { "id": "channel0", "open": true },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1401385907, "microseconds": 422329 } }

1.9 Dump guest memory

Enum: DumpGuestMemoryFormat

An enumeration of guest-memory-dump’s format.

Values:

elf

elf format

kdump-zlib

kdump-compressed format with zlib-compressed

kdump-lzo

kdump-compressed format with lzo-compressed

kdump-snappy

kdump-compressed format with snappy-compressed

win-dmp

Windows full crashdump format, can be used instead of ELF converting (since 2.13)

Since: 2.0

Command: dump-guest-memory

Dump guest’s memory to vmcore. It is a synchronous operation that can take very long depending on the amount of guest memory.

Arguments:

paging: boolean

if true, do paging to get guest’s memory mapping. This allows using gdb to process the core file.

IMPORTANT: this option can make QEMU allocate several gigabytes of RAM. This can happen for a large guest, or a malicious guest pretending to be large.

Also, paging=true has the following limitations:

  1. The guest may be in a catastrophic state or can have corrupted memory, which cannot be trusted
  2. The guest can be in real-mode even if paging is enabled. For example, the guest uses ACPI to sleep, and ACPI sleep state goes in real-mode
  3. Currently only supported on i386 and x86_64.
protocol: string

the filename or file descriptor of the vmcore. The supported protocols are:

  1. file: the protocol starts with "file:", and the following string is the file’s path.
  2. fd: the protocol starts with "fd:", and the following string is the fd’s name.
detach: boolean (optional)

if true, QMP will return immediately rather than waiting for the dump to finish. The user can track progress using "query-dump". (since 2.6).

begin: int (optional)

if specified, the starting physical address.

length: int (optional)

if specified, the memory size, in bytes. If you don’t want to dump all guest’s memory, please specify the start begin and length

format: DumpGuestMemoryFormat (optional)

if specified, the format of guest memory dump. But non-elf format is conflict with paging and filter, ie. paging, begin and length is not allowed to be specified with non-elf format at the same time (since 2.0)

Note: All boolean arguments default to false

Returns: nothing on success

Since: 1.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "dump-guest-memory",
     "arguments": { "protocol": "fd:dump" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Enum: DumpStatus

Describe the status of a long-running background guest memory dump.

Values:

none

no dump-guest-memory has started yet.

active

there is one dump running in background.

completed

the last dump has finished successfully.

failed

the last dump has failed.

Since: 2.6

Object: DumpQueryResult

The result format for ’query-dump’.

Members:

status: DumpStatus

enum of DumpStatus, which shows current dump status

completed: int

bytes written in latest dump (uncompressed)

total: int

total bytes to be written in latest dump (uncompressed)

Since: 2.6

Command: query-dump

Query latest dump status.

Returns: A DumpStatus object showing the dump status.

Since: 2.6

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-dump" }
<- { "return": { "status": "active", "completed": 1024000,
                 "total": 2048000 } }
Event: DUMP_COMPLETED

Emitted when background dump has completed

Arguments:

result: DumpQueryResult

final dump status

error: string (optional)

human-readable error string that provides hint on why dump failed. Only presents on failure. The user should not try to interpret the error string.

Since: 2.6

Example:

{ "event": "DUMP_COMPLETED",
  "data": {"result": {"total": 1090650112, "status": "completed",
                      "completed": 1090650112} } }
Object: DumpGuestMemoryCapability

A list of the available formats for dump-guest-memory

Members:

formats: array of DumpGuestMemoryFormat

Not documented

Since: 2.0

Command: query-dump-guest-memory-capability

Returns the available formats for dump-guest-memory

Returns: A DumpGuestMemoryCapability object listing available formats for dump-guest-memory

Since: 2.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-dump-guest-memory-capability" }
<- { "return": { "formats":
                 ["elf", "kdump-zlib", "kdump-lzo", "kdump-snappy"] }

1.10 Net devices

Command: set_link

Sets the link status of a virtual network adapter.

Arguments:

name: string

the device name of the virtual network adapter

up: boolean

true to set the link status to be up

Returns: Nothing on success If name is not a valid network device, DeviceNotFound

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: Not all network adapters support setting link status. This command will succeed even if the network adapter does not support link status notification.

Example:

-> { "execute": "set_link",
     "arguments": { "name": "e1000.0", "up": false } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: netdev_add

Add a network backend.

Arguments:

type: string

the type of network backend. Possible values are listed in NetClientDriver (excluding ’none’ and ’nic’)

id: string

the name of the new network backend

Additional arguments depend on the type.

TODO: This command effectively bypasses QAPI completely due to its "additional arguments" business. It shouldn’t have been added to the schema in this form. It should be qapified properly, or replaced by a properly qapified command.

Since: 0.14.0

Returns: Nothing on success If type is not a valid network backend, DeviceNotFound

Example:

-> { "execute": "netdev_add",
     "arguments": { "type": "user", "id": "netdev1",
                    "dnssearch": "example.org" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: netdev_del

Remove a network backend.

Arguments:

id: string

the name of the network backend to remove

Returns: Nothing on success If id is not a valid network backend, DeviceNotFound

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "netdev_del", "arguments": { "id": "netdev1" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: NetLegacyNicOptions

Create a new Network Interface Card.

Members:

netdev: string (optional)

id of -netdev to connect to

macaddr: string (optional)

MAC address

model: string (optional)

device model (e1000, rtl8139, virtio etc.)

addr: string (optional)

PCI device address

vectors: int (optional)

number of MSI-x vectors, 0 to disable MSI-X

Since: 1.2

Object: NetdevUserOptions

Use the user mode network stack which requires no administrator privilege to run.

Members:

hostname: string (optional)

client hostname reported by the builtin DHCP server

restrict: boolean (optional)

isolate the guest from the host

ipv4: boolean (optional)

whether to support IPv4, default true for enabled (since 2.6)

ipv6: boolean (optional)

whether to support IPv6, default true for enabled (since 2.6)

ip: string (optional)

legacy parameter, use net= instead

net: string (optional)

IP network address that the guest will see, in the form addr[/netmask] The netmask is optional, and can be either in the form a.b.c.d or as a number of valid top-most bits. Default is 10.0.2.0/24.

host: string (optional)

guest-visible address of the host

tftp: string (optional)

root directory of the built-in TFTP server

bootfile: string (optional)

BOOTP filename, for use with tftp=

dhcpstart: string (optional)

the first of the 16 IPs the built-in DHCP server can assign

dns: string (optional)

guest-visible address of the virtual nameserver

dnssearch: array of String (optional)

list of DNS suffixes to search, passed as DHCP option to the guest

domainname: string (optional)

guest-visible domain name of the virtual nameserver (since 3.0)

ipv6-prefix: string (optional)

IPv6 network prefix (default is fec0::) (since 2.6). The network prefix is given in the usual hexadecimal IPv6 address notation.

ipv6-prefixlen: int (optional)

IPv6 network prefix length (default is 64) (since 2.6)

ipv6-host: string (optional)

guest-visible IPv6 address of the host (since 2.6)

ipv6-dns: string (optional)

guest-visible IPv6 address of the virtual nameserver (since 2.6)

smb: string (optional)

root directory of the built-in SMB server

smbserver: string (optional)

IP address of the built-in SMB server

hostfwd: array of String (optional)

redirect incoming TCP or UDP host connections to guest endpoints

guestfwd: array of String (optional)

forward guest TCP connections

tftp-server-name: string (optional)

RFC2132 "TFTP server name" string (Since 3.1)

Since: 1.2

Object: NetdevTapOptions

Used to configure a host TAP network interface backend.

Members:

ifname: string (optional)

interface name

fd: string (optional)

file descriptor of an already opened tap

fds: string (optional)

multiple file descriptors of already opened multiqueue capable tap

script: string (optional)

script to initialize the interface

downscript: string (optional)

script to shut down the interface

br: string (optional)

bridge name (since 2.8)

helper: string (optional)

command to execute to configure bridge

sndbuf: int (optional)

send buffer limit. Understands [TGMKkb] suffixes.

vnet_hdr: boolean (optional)

enable the IFF_VNET_HDR flag on the tap interface

vhost: boolean (optional)

enable vhost-net network accelerator

vhostfd: string (optional)

file descriptor of an already opened vhost net device

vhostfds: string (optional)

file descriptors of multiple already opened vhost net devices

vhostforce: boolean (optional)

vhost on for non-MSIX virtio guests

queues: int (optional)

number of queues to be created for multiqueue capable tap

poll-us: int (optional)

maximum number of microseconds that could be spent on busy polling for tap (since 2.7)

Since: 1.2

Object: NetdevSocketOptions

Socket netdevs are used to establish a network connection to another QEMU virtual machine via a TCP socket.

Members:

fd: string (optional)

file descriptor of an already opened socket

listen: string (optional)

port number, and optional hostname, to listen on

connect: string (optional)

port number, and optional hostname, to connect to

mcast: string (optional)

UDP multicast address and port number

localaddr: string (optional)

source address and port for multicast and udp packets

udp: string (optional)

UDP unicast address and port number

Since: 1.2

Object: NetdevL2TPv3Options

Configure an Ethernet over L2TPv3 tunnel.

Members:

src: string

source address

dst: string

destination address

srcport: string (optional)

source port - mandatory for udp, optional for ip

dstport: string (optional)

destination port - mandatory for udp, optional for ip

ipv6: boolean (optional)

force the use of ipv6

udp: boolean (optional)

use the udp version of l2tpv3 encapsulation

cookie64: boolean (optional)

use 64 bit coookies

counter: boolean (optional)

have sequence counter

pincounter: boolean (optional)

pin sequence counter to zero - workaround for buggy implementations or networks with packet reorder

txcookie: int (optional)

32 or 64 bit transmit cookie

rxcookie: int (optional)

32 or 64 bit receive cookie

txsession: int

32 bit transmit session

rxsession: int (optional)

32 bit receive session - if not specified set to the same value as transmit

offset: int (optional)

additional offset - allows the insertion of additional application-specific data before the packet payload

Since: 2.1

Object: NetdevVdeOptions

Connect to a vde switch running on the host.

Members:

sock: string (optional)

socket path

port: int (optional)

port number

group: string (optional)

group owner of socket

mode: int (optional)

permissions for socket

Since: 1.2

Object: NetdevBridgeOptions

Connect a host TAP network interface to a host bridge device.

Members:

br: string (optional)

bridge name

helper: string (optional)

command to execute to configure bridge

Since: 1.2

Object: NetdevHubPortOptions

Connect two or more net clients through a software hub.

Members:

hubid: int

hub identifier number

netdev: string (optional)

used to connect hub to a netdev instead of a device (since 2.12)

Since: 1.2

Object: NetdevNetmapOptions

Connect a client to a netmap-enabled NIC or to a VALE switch port

Members:

ifname: string

Either the name of an existing network interface supported by netmap, or the name of a VALE port (created on the fly). A VALE port name is in the form ’valeXXX:YYY’, where XXX and YYY are non-negative integers. XXX identifies a switch and YYY identifies a port of the switch. VALE ports having the same XXX are therefore connected to the same switch.

devname: string (optional)

path of the netmap device (default: ’/dev/netmap’).

Since: 2.0

Object: NetdevVhostUserOptions

Vhost-user network backend

Members:

chardev: string

name of a unix socket chardev

vhostforce: boolean (optional)

vhost on for non-MSIX virtio guests (default: false).

queues: int (optional)

number of queues to be created for multiqueue vhost-user (default: 1) (Since 2.5)

Since: 2.1

Enum: NetClientDriver

Available netdev drivers.

Values:

none

Not documented

nic

Not documented

user

Not documented

tap

Not documented

l2tpv3

Not documented

socket

Not documented

vde

Not documented

bridge

Not documented

hubport

Not documented

netmap

Not documented

vhost-user

Not documented

Since: 2.7

’dump’: dropped in 2.12

Object: Netdev

Captures the configuration of a network device.

Members:

id: string

identifier for monitor commands.

type: NetClientDriver

Specify the driver used for interpreting remaining arguments.

The members of NetLegacyNicOptions when type is "nic"
The members of NetdevUserOptions when type is "user"
The members of NetdevTapOptions when type is "tap"
The members of NetdevL2TPv3Options when type is "l2tpv3"
The members of NetdevSocketOptions when type is "socket"
The members of NetdevVdeOptions when type is "vde"
The members of NetdevBridgeOptions when type is "bridge"
The members of NetdevHubPortOptions when type is "hubport"
The members of NetdevNetmapOptions when type is "netmap"
The members of NetdevVhostUserOptions when type is "vhost-user"

Since: 1.2

’l2tpv3’ - since 2.1

Object: NetLegacy

Captures the configuration of a network device; legacy.

Members:

id: string (optional)

identifier for monitor commands

name: string (optional)

identifier for monitor commands, ignored if id is present

opts: NetLegacyOptions

device type specific properties (legacy)

Since: 1.2

’vlan’: dropped in 3.0

Enum: NetLegacyOptionsType

Values:

none

Not documented

nic

Not documented

user

Not documented

tap

Not documented

l2tpv3

Not documented

socket

Not documented

vde

Not documented

bridge

Not documented

netmap

Not documented

vhost-user

Not documented

Since: 1.2

Object: NetLegacyOptions

Like Netdev, but for use only by the legacy command line options

Members:

type: NetLegacyOptionsType

Not documented

The members of NetLegacyNicOptions when type is "nic"
The members of NetdevUserOptions when type is "user"
The members of NetdevTapOptions when type is "tap"
The members of NetdevL2TPv3Options when type is "l2tpv3"
The members of NetdevSocketOptions when type is "socket"
The members of NetdevVdeOptions when type is "vde"
The members of NetdevBridgeOptions when type is "bridge"
The members of NetdevNetmapOptions when type is "netmap"
The members of NetdevVhostUserOptions when type is "vhost-user"

Since: 1.2

Enum: NetFilterDirection

Indicates whether a netfilter is attached to a netdev’s transmit queue or receive queue or both.

Values:

all

the filter is attached both to the receive and the transmit queue of the netdev (default).

rx

the filter is attached to the receive queue of the netdev, where it will receive packets sent to the netdev.

tx

the filter is attached to the transmit queue of the netdev, where it will receive packets sent by the netdev.

Since: 2.5

Enum: RxState

Packets receiving state

Values:

normal

filter assigned packets according to the mac-table

none

don’t receive any assigned packet

all

receive all assigned packets

Since: 1.6

Object: RxFilterInfo

Rx-filter information for a NIC.

Members:

name: string

net client name

promiscuous: boolean

whether promiscuous mode is enabled

multicast: RxState

multicast receive state

unicast: RxState

unicast receive state

vlan: RxState

vlan receive state (Since 2.0)

broadcast-allowed: boolean

whether to receive broadcast

multicast-overflow: boolean

multicast table is overflowed or not

unicast-overflow: boolean

unicast table is overflowed or not

main-mac: string

the main macaddr string

vlan-table: array of int

a list of active vlan id

unicast-table: array of string

a list of unicast macaddr string

multicast-table: array of string

a list of multicast macaddr string

Since: 1.6

Command: query-rx-filter

Return rx-filter information for all NICs (or for the given NIC).

Arguments:

name: string (optional)

net client name

Returns: list of RxFilterInfo for all NICs (or for the given NIC). Returns an error if the given name doesn’t exist, or given NIC doesn’t support rx-filter querying, or given net client isn’t a NIC.

Since: 1.6

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-rx-filter", "arguments": { "name": "vnet0" } }
<- { "return": [
        {
            "promiscuous": true,
            "name": "vnet0",
            "main-mac": "52:54:00:12:34:56",
            "unicast": "normal",
            "vlan": "normal",
            "vlan-table": [
                4,
                0
            ],
            "unicast-table": [
            ],
            "multicast": "normal",
            "multicast-overflow": false,
            "unicast-overflow": false,
            "multicast-table": [
                "01:00:5e:00:00:01",
                "33:33:00:00:00:01",
                "33:33:ff:12:34:56"
            ],
            "broadcast-allowed": false
        }
      ]
   }
Event: NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED

Emitted once until the ’query-rx-filter’ command is executed, the first event will always be emitted

Arguments:

name: string (optional)

net client name

path: string

device path

Since: 1.6

Example:

<- { "event": "NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED",
     "data": { "name": "vnet0",
               "path": "/machine/peripheral/vnet0/virtio-backend" },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1368697518, "microseconds": 326866 } }
   }
Object: AnnounceParameters

Parameters for self-announce timers

Members:

initial: int

Initial delay (in ms) before sending the first GARP/RARP announcement

max: int

Maximum delay (in ms) between GARP/RARP announcement packets

rounds: int

Number of self-announcement attempts

step: int

Delay increase (in ms) after each self-announcement attempt

interfaces: array of string (optional)

An optional list of interface names, which restricts the announcement to the listed interfaces. (Since 4.1)

id: string (optional)

A name to be used to identify an instance of announce-timers and to allow it to modified later. Not for use as part of the migration parameters. (Since 4.1)

Since: 4.0

Command: announce-self

Trigger generation of broadcast RARP frames to update network switches. This can be useful when network bonds fail-over the active slave.

Arguments: the members of AnnounceParameters

Example:

-> { "execute": "announce-self",
     "arguments": {
         "initial": 50, "max": 550, "rounds": 10, "step": 50,
         "interfaces": ["vn2", "vn3"], "id": "bob" } }
<- { "return": {} }

Since: 4.0

1.11 RDMA device

Event: RDMA_GID_STATUS_CHANGED

Emitted when guest driver adds/deletes GID to/from device

Arguments:

netdev: string

RoCE Network Device name

gid-status: boolean

Add or delete indication

subnet-prefix: int

Subnet Prefix

interface-id: int

Not documented

interface-id : Interface ID

Since: 4.0

Example:

<- {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1541579657, "microseconds": 986760},
    "event": "RDMA_GID_STATUS_CHANGED",
    "data":
        {"netdev": "bridge0",
        "interface-id": 15880512517475447892,
        "gid-status": true,
        "subnet-prefix": 33022}}

1.12 Rocker switch device

Object: RockerSwitch

Rocker switch information.

Members:

name: string

switch name

id: int

switch ID

ports: int

number of front-panel ports

Since: 2.4

Command: query-rocker

Return rocker switch information.

Arguments:

name: string

Not documented

Returns: Rocker information

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-rocker", "arguments": { "name": "sw1" } }
<- { "return": {"name": "sw1", "ports": 2, "id": 1327446905938}}
Enum: RockerPortDuplex

An eumeration of port duplex states.

Values:

half

half duplex

full

full duplex

Since: 2.4

Enum: RockerPortAutoneg

An eumeration of port autoneg states.

Values:

off

autoneg is off

on

autoneg is on

Since: 2.4

Object: RockerPort

Rocker switch port information.

Members:

name: string

port name

enabled: boolean

port is enabled for I/O

link-up: boolean

physical link is UP on port

speed: int

port link speed in Mbps

duplex: RockerPortDuplex

port link duplex

autoneg: RockerPortAutoneg

port link autoneg

Since: 2.4

Command: query-rocker-ports

Return rocker switch port information.

Arguments:

name: string

Not documented

Returns: a list of RockerPort information

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-rocker-ports", "arguments": { "name": "sw1" } }
<- { "return": [ {"duplex": "full", "enabled": true, "name": "sw1.1",
                  "autoneg": "off", "link-up": true, "speed": 10000},
                 {"duplex": "full", "enabled": true, "name": "sw1.2",
                  "autoneg": "off", "link-up": true, "speed": 10000}
   ]}
Object: RockerOfDpaFlowKey

Rocker switch OF-DPA flow key

Members:

priority: int

key priority, 0 being lowest priority

tbl-id: int

flow table ID

in-pport: int (optional)

physical input port

tunnel-id: int (optional)

tunnel ID

vlan-id: int (optional)

VLAN ID

eth-type: int (optional)

Ethernet header type

eth-src: string (optional)

Ethernet header source MAC address

eth-dst: string (optional)

Ethernet header destination MAC address

ip-proto: int (optional)

IP Header protocol field

ip-tos: int (optional)

IP header TOS field

ip-dst: string (optional)

IP header destination address

Note: optional members may or may not appear in the flow key depending if they’re relevant to the flow key.

Since: 2.4

Object: RockerOfDpaFlowMask

Rocker switch OF-DPA flow mask

Members:

in-pport: int (optional)

physical input port

tunnel-id: int (optional)

tunnel ID

vlan-id: int (optional)

VLAN ID

eth-src: string (optional)

Ethernet header source MAC address

eth-dst: string (optional)

Ethernet header destination MAC address

ip-proto: int (optional)

IP Header protocol field

ip-tos: int (optional)

IP header TOS field

Note: optional members may or may not appear in the flow mask depending if they’re relevant to the flow mask.

Since: 2.4

Object: RockerOfDpaFlowAction

Rocker switch OF-DPA flow action

Members:

goto-tbl: int (optional)

next table ID

group-id: int (optional)

group ID

tunnel-lport: int (optional)

tunnel logical port ID

vlan-id: int (optional)

VLAN ID

new-vlan-id: int (optional)

new VLAN ID

out-pport: int (optional)

physical output port

Note: optional members may or may not appear in the flow action depending if they’re relevant to the flow action.

Since: 2.4

Object: RockerOfDpaFlow

Rocker switch OF-DPA flow

Members:

cookie: int

flow unique cookie ID

hits: int

count of matches (hits) on flow

key: RockerOfDpaFlowKey

flow key

mask: RockerOfDpaFlowMask

flow mask

action: RockerOfDpaFlowAction

flow action

Since: 2.4

Command: query-rocker-of-dpa-flows

Return rocker OF-DPA flow information.

Arguments:

name: string

switch name

tbl-id: int (optional)

flow table ID. If tbl-id is not specified, returns flow information for all tables.

Returns: rocker OF-DPA flow information

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-rocker-of-dpa-flows",
     "arguments": { "name": "sw1" } }
<- { "return": [ {"key": {"in-pport": 0, "priority": 1, "tbl-id": 0},
                  "hits": 138,
                  "cookie": 0,
                  "action": {"goto-tbl": 10},
                  "mask": {"in-pport": 4294901760}
                 },
                 {...more...},
   ]}
Object: RockerOfDpaGroup

Rocker switch OF-DPA group

Members:

id: int

group unique ID

type: int

group type

vlan-id: int (optional)

VLAN ID

pport: int (optional)

physical port number

index: int (optional)

group index, unique with group type

out-pport: int (optional)

output physical port number

group-id: int (optional)

next group ID

set-vlan-id: int (optional)

VLAN ID to set

pop-vlan: int (optional)

pop VLAN headr from packet

group-ids: array of int (optional)

list of next group IDs

set-eth-src: string (optional)

set source MAC address in Ethernet header

set-eth-dst: string (optional)

set destination MAC address in Ethernet header

ttl-check: int (optional)

perform TTL check

Note: optional members may or may not appear in the group depending if they’re relevant to the group type.

Since: 2.4

Command: query-rocker-of-dpa-groups

Return rocker OF-DPA group information.

Arguments:

name: string

switch name

type: int (optional)

group type. If type is not specified, returns group information for all group types.

Returns: rocker OF-DPA group information

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-rocker-of-dpa-groups",
     "arguments": { "name": "sw1" } }
<- { "return": [ {"type": 0, "out-pport": 2,
                  "pport": 2, "vlan-id": 3841,
                  "pop-vlan": 1, "id": 251723778},
                 {"type": 0, "out-pport": 0,
                  "pport": 0, "vlan-id": 3841,
                  "pop-vlan": 1, "id": 251723776},
                 {"type": 0, "out-pport": 1,
                  "pport": 1, "vlan-id": 3840,
                  "pop-vlan": 1, "id": 251658241},
                 {"type": 0, "out-pport": 0,
                  "pport": 0, "vlan-id": 3840,
                  "pop-vlan": 1, "id": 251658240}
   ]}

1.13 TPM (trusted platform module) devices

Enum: TpmModel

An enumeration of TPM models

Values:

tpm-tis

TPM TIS model

tpm-crb

TPM CRB model (since 2.12)

Since: 1.5

Command: query-tpm-models

Return a list of supported TPM models

Returns: a list of TpmModel

Since: 1.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-tpm-models" }
<- { "return": [ "tpm-tis", "tpm-crb" ] }
Enum: TpmType

An enumeration of TPM types

Values:

passthrough

TPM passthrough type

emulator

Software Emulator TPM type Since: 2.11

Since: 1.5

Command: query-tpm-types

Return a list of supported TPM types

Returns: a list of TpmType

Since: 1.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-tpm-types" }
<- { "return": [ "passthrough", "emulator" ] }
Object: TPMPassthroughOptions

Information about the TPM passthrough type

Members:

path: string (optional)

string describing the path used for accessing the TPM device

cancel-path: string (optional)

string showing the TPM’s sysfs cancel file for cancellation of TPM commands while they are executing

Since: 1.5

Object: TPMEmulatorOptions

Information about the TPM emulator type

Members:

chardev: string

Name of a unix socket chardev

Since: 2.11

Object: TpmTypeOptions

A union referencing different TPM backend types’ configuration options

Members:

type

’passthrough’ The configuration options for the TPM passthrough type ’emulator’ The configuration options for TPM emulator backend type

data: TPMPassthroughOptions when type is "passthrough"
data: TPMEmulatorOptions when type is "emulator"

Since: 1.5

Object: TPMInfo

Information about the TPM

Members:

id: string

The Id of the TPM

model: TpmModel

The TPM frontend model

options: TpmTypeOptions

The TPM (backend) type configuration options

Since: 1.5

Command: query-tpm

Return information about the TPM device

Returns: TPMInfo on success

Since: 1.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-tpm" }
<- { "return":
     [
       { "model": "tpm-tis",
         "options":
           { "type": "passthrough",
             "data":
               { "cancel-path": "/sys/class/misc/tpm0/device/cancel",
                 "path": "/dev/tpm0"
               }
           },
         "id": "tpm0"
       }
     ]
   }

1.14 Remote desktop

Command: set_password

Sets the password of a remote display session.

Arguments:

protocol: string

‘vnc’ to modify the VNC server password ‘spice’ to modify the Spice server password

password: string

the new password

connected: string (optional)

how to handle existing clients when changing the password. If nothing is specified, defaults to ‘keep’ ‘fail’ to fail the command if clients are connected ‘disconnect’ to disconnect existing clients ‘keep’ to maintain existing clients

Returns: Nothing on success If Spice is not enabled, DeviceNotFound

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "set_password", "arguments": { "protocol": "vnc",
                                               "password": "secret" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: expire_password

Expire the password of a remote display server.

Arguments:

protocol: string

the name of the remote display protocol ‘vnc’ or ‘spice’

time: string

when to expire the password. ‘now’ to expire the password immediately ‘never’ to cancel password expiration ‘+INT’ where INT is the number of seconds from now (integer) ‘INT’ where INT is the absolute time in seconds

Returns: Nothing on success If protocol is ‘spice’ and Spice is not active, DeviceNotFound

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: Time is relative to the server and currently there is no way to coordinate server time with client time. It is not recommended to use the absolute time version of the time parameter unless you’re sure you are on the same machine as the QEMU instance.

Example:

-> { "execute": "expire_password", "arguments": { "protocol": "vnc",
                                                  "time": "+60" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: screendump

Write a PPM of the VGA screen to a file.

Arguments:

filename: string

the path of a new PPM file to store the image

device: string (optional)

ID of the display device that should be dumped. If this parameter is missing, the primary display will be used. (Since 2.12)

head: int (optional)

head to use in case the device supports multiple heads. If this parameter is missing, head #0 will be used. Also note that the head can only be specified in conjunction with the device ID. (Since 2.12)

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "screendump",
     "arguments": { "filename": "/tmp/image" } }
<- { "return": {} }

1.14.1 Spice

Object: SpiceBasicInfo

The basic information for SPICE network connection

Members:

host: string

IP address

port: string

port number

family: NetworkAddressFamily

address family

Since: 2.1

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Object: SpiceServerInfo

Information about a SPICE server

Members:

auth: string (optional)

authentication method

The members of SpiceBasicInfo

Since: 2.1

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Object: SpiceChannel

Information about a SPICE client channel.

Members:

connection-id: int

SPICE connection id number. All channels with the same id belong to the same SPICE session.

channel-type: int

SPICE channel type number. "1" is the main control channel, filter for this one if you want to track spice sessions only

channel-id: int

SPICE channel ID number. Usually "0", might be different when multiple channels of the same type exist, such as multiple display channels in a multihead setup

tls: boolean

true if the channel is encrypted, false otherwise.

The members of SpiceBasicInfo

Since: 0.14.0

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Enum: SpiceQueryMouseMode

An enumeration of Spice mouse states.

Values:

client

Mouse cursor position is determined by the client.

server

Mouse cursor position is determined by the server.

unknown

No information is available about mouse mode used by the spice server.

Note: spice/enums.h has a SpiceMouseMode already, hence the name.

Since: 1.1

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Object: SpiceInfo

Information about the SPICE session.

Members:

enabled: boolean

true if the SPICE server is enabled, false otherwise

migrated: boolean

true if the last guest migration completed and spice migration had completed as well. false otherwise. (since 1.4)

host: string (optional)

The hostname the SPICE server is bound to. This depends on the name resolution on the host and may be an IP address.

port: int (optional)

The SPICE server’s port number.

compiled-version: string (optional)

SPICE server version.

tls-port: int (optional)

The SPICE server’s TLS port number.

auth: string (optional)

the current authentication type used by the server ’none’ if no authentication is being used ’spice’ uses SASL or direct TLS authentication, depending on command line options

mouse-mode: SpiceQueryMouseMode

The mode in which the mouse cursor is displayed currently. Can be determined by the client or the server, or unknown if spice server doesn’t provide this information. (since: 1.1)

channels: array of SpiceChannel (optional)

a list of SpiceChannel for each active spice channel

Since: 0.14.0

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Command: query-spice

Returns information about the current SPICE server

Returns: SpiceInfo

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-spice" }
<- { "return": {
         "enabled": true,
         "auth": "spice",
         "port": 5920,
         "tls-port": 5921,
         "host": "0.0.0.0",
         "channels": [
            {
               "port": "54924",
               "family": "ipv4",
               "channel-type": 1,
               "connection-id": 1804289383,
               "host": "127.0.0.1",
               "channel-id": 0,
               "tls": true
            },
            {
               "port": "36710",
               "family": "ipv4",
               "channel-type": 4,
               "connection-id": 1804289383,
               "host": "127.0.0.1",
               "channel-id": 0,
               "tls": false
            },
            [ ... more channels follow ... ]
         ]
      }
   }

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Event: SPICE_CONNECTED

Emitted when a SPICE client establishes a connection

Arguments:

server: SpiceBasicInfo

server information

client: SpiceBasicInfo

client information

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

<- { "timestamp": {"seconds": 1290688046, "microseconds": 388707},
     "event": "SPICE_CONNECTED",
     "data": {
       "server": { "port": "5920", "family": "ipv4", "host": "127.0.0.1"},
       "client": {"port": "52873", "family": "ipv4", "host": "127.0.0.1"}
   }}

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Event: SPICE_INITIALIZED

Emitted after initial handshake and authentication takes place (if any) and the SPICE channel is up and running

Arguments:

server: SpiceServerInfo

server information

client: SpiceChannel

client information

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

<- { "timestamp": {"seconds": 1290688046, "microseconds": 417172},
     "event": "SPICE_INITIALIZED",
     "data": {"server": {"auth": "spice", "port": "5921",
                         "family": "ipv4", "host": "127.0.0.1"},
              "client": {"port": "49004", "family": "ipv4", "channel-type": 3,
                         "connection-id": 1804289383, "host": "127.0.0.1",
                         "channel-id": 0, "tls": true}
   }}

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Event: SPICE_DISCONNECTED

Emitted when the SPICE connection is closed

Arguments:

server: SpiceBasicInfo

server information

client: SpiceBasicInfo

client information

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

<- { "timestamp": {"seconds": 1290688046, "microseconds": 388707},
     "event": "SPICE_DISCONNECTED",
     "data": {
       "server": { "port": "5920", "family": "ipv4", "host": "127.0.0.1"},
       "client": {"port": "52873", "family": "ipv4", "host": "127.0.0.1"}
   }}

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

Event: SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED

Emitted when SPICE migration has completed

Since: 1.3

Example:

<- { "timestamp": {"seconds": 1290688046, "microseconds": 417172},
     "event": "SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED" }

If: defined(CONFIG_SPICE)

1.14.2 VNC

Object: VncBasicInfo

The basic information for vnc network connection

Members:

host: string

IP address

service: string

The service name of the vnc port. This may depend on the host system’s service database so symbolic names should not be relied on.

family: NetworkAddressFamily

address family

websocket: boolean

true in case the socket is a websocket (since 2.3).

Since: 2.1

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Object: VncServerInfo

The network connection information for server

Members:

auth: string (optional)

authentication method used for the plain (non-websocket) VNC server

The members of VncBasicInfo

Since: 2.1

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Object: VncClientInfo

Information about a connected VNC client.

Members:

x509_dname: string (optional)

If x509 authentication is in use, the Distinguished Name of the client.

sasl_username: string (optional)

If SASL authentication is in use, the SASL username used for authentication.

The members of VncBasicInfo

Since: 0.14.0

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Object: VncInfo

Information about the VNC session.

Members:

enabled: boolean

true if the VNC server is enabled, false otherwise

host: string (optional)

The hostname the VNC server is bound to. This depends on the name resolution on the host and may be an IP address.

family: NetworkAddressFamily (optional)

’ipv6’ if the host is listening for IPv6 connections ’ipv4’ if the host is listening for IPv4 connections ’unix’ if the host is listening on a unix domain socket ’unknown’ otherwise

service: string (optional)

The service name of the server’s port. This may depends on the host system’s service database so symbolic names should not be relied on.

auth: string (optional)

the current authentication type used by the server ’none’ if no authentication is being used ’vnc’ if VNC authentication is being used ’vencrypt+plain’ if VEncrypt is used with plain text authentication ’vencrypt+tls+none’ if VEncrypt is used with TLS and no authentication ’vencrypt+tls+vnc’ if VEncrypt is used with TLS and VNC authentication ’vencrypt+tls+plain’ if VEncrypt is used with TLS and plain text auth ’vencrypt+x509+none’ if VEncrypt is used with x509 and no auth ’vencrypt+x509+vnc’ if VEncrypt is used with x509 and VNC auth ’vencrypt+x509+plain’ if VEncrypt is used with x509 and plain text auth ’vencrypt+tls+sasl’ if VEncrypt is used with TLS and SASL auth ’vencrypt+x509+sasl’ if VEncrypt is used with x509 and SASL auth

clients: array of VncClientInfo (optional)

a list of VncClientInfo of all currently connected clients

Since: 0.14.0

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Enum: VncPrimaryAuth

vnc primary authentication method.

Values:

none

Not documented

vnc

Not documented

ra2

Not documented

ra2ne

Not documented

tight

Not documented

ultra

Not documented

tls

Not documented

vencrypt

Not documented

sasl

Not documented

Since: 2.3

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Enum: VncVencryptSubAuth

vnc sub authentication method with vencrypt.

Values:

plain

Not documented

tls-none

Not documented

x509-none

Not documented

tls-vnc

Not documented

x509-vnc

Not documented

tls-plain

Not documented

x509-plain

Not documented

tls-sasl

Not documented

x509-sasl

Not documented

Since: 2.3

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Object: VncServerInfo2

The network connection information for server

Members:

auth: VncPrimaryAuth

The current authentication type used by the servers

vencrypt: VncVencryptSubAuth (optional)

The vencrypt sub authentication type used by the servers, only specified in case auth == vencrypt.

The members of VncBasicInfo

Since: 2.9

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Object: VncInfo2

Information about a vnc server

Members:

id: string

vnc server name.

server: array of VncServerInfo2

A list of VncBasincInfo describing all listening sockets. The list can be empty (in case the vnc server is disabled). It also may have multiple entries: normal + websocket, possibly also ipv4 + ipv6 in the future.

clients: array of VncClientInfo

A list of VncClientInfo of all currently connected clients. The list can be empty, for obvious reasons.

auth: VncPrimaryAuth

The current authentication type used by the non-websockets servers

vencrypt: VncVencryptSubAuth (optional)

The vencrypt authentication type used by the servers, only specified in case auth == vencrypt.

display: string (optional)

The display device the vnc server is linked to.

Since: 2.3

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Command: query-vnc

Returns information about the current VNC server

Returns: VncInfo

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-vnc" }
<- { "return": {
         "enabled":true,
         "host":"0.0.0.0",
         "service":"50402",
         "auth":"vnc",
         "family":"ipv4",
         "clients":[
            {
               "host":"127.0.0.1",
               "service":"50401",
               "family":"ipv4"
            }
         ]
      }
   }

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Command: query-vnc-servers

Returns a list of vnc servers. The list can be empty.

Returns: a list of VncInfo2

Since: 2.3

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Command: change-vnc-password

Change the VNC server password.

Arguments:

password: string

the new password to use with VNC authentication

Since: 1.1

Notes: An empty password in this command will set the password to the empty string. Existing clients are unaffected by executing this command.

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Event: VNC_CONNECTED

Emitted when a VNC client establishes a connection

Arguments:

server: VncServerInfo

server information

client: VncBasicInfo

client information

Note: This event is emitted before any authentication takes place, thus the authentication ID is not provided

Since: 0.13.0

Example:

<- { "event": "VNC_CONNECTED",
     "data": {
           "server": { "auth": "sasl", "family": "ipv4",
                       "service": "5901", "host": "0.0.0.0" },
           "client": { "family": "ipv4", "service": "58425",
                       "host": "127.0.0.1" } },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1262976601, "microseconds": 975795 } }

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Event: VNC_INITIALIZED

Emitted after authentication takes place (if any) and the VNC session is made active

Arguments:

server: VncServerInfo

server information

client: VncClientInfo

client information

Since: 0.13.0

Example:

<-  { "event": "VNC_INITIALIZED",
      "data": {
           "server": { "auth": "sasl", "family": "ipv4",
                       "service": "5901", "host": "0.0.0.0"},
           "client": { "family": "ipv4", "service": "46089",
                       "host": "127.0.0.1", "sasl_username": "luiz" } },
      "timestamp": { "seconds": 1263475302, "microseconds": 150772 } }

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

Event: VNC_DISCONNECTED

Emitted when the connection is closed

Arguments:

server: VncServerInfo

server information

client: VncClientInfo

client information

Since: 0.13.0

Example:

<- { "event": "VNC_DISCONNECTED",
     "data": {
           "server": { "auth": "sasl", "family": "ipv4",
                       "service": "5901", "host": "0.0.0.0" },
           "client": { "family": "ipv4", "service": "58425",
                       "host": "127.0.0.1", "sasl_username": "luiz" } },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1262976601, "microseconds": 975795 } }

If: defined(CONFIG_VNC)

1.15 Input

Object: MouseInfo

Information about a mouse device.

Members:

name: string

the name of the mouse device

index: int

the index of the mouse device

current: boolean

true if this device is currently receiving mouse events

absolute: boolean

true if this device supports absolute coordinates as input

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-mice

Returns information about each active mouse device

Returns: a list of MouseInfo for each device

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-mice" }
<- { "return": [
         {
            "name":"QEMU Microsoft Mouse",
            "index":0,
            "current":false,
            "absolute":false
         },
         {
            "name":"QEMU PS/2 Mouse",
            "index":1,
            "current":true,
            "absolute":true
         }
      ]
   }
Enum: QKeyCode

An enumeration of key name.

This is used by the send-key command.

Values:

unmapped

since 2.0

pause

since 2.0

ro

since 2.4

kp_comma

since 2.4

kp_equals

since 2.6

power

since 2.6

hiragana

since 2.9

henkan

since 2.9

yen

since 2.9

sleep

since 2.10

wake

since 2.10

audionext

since 2.10

audioprev

since 2.10

audiostop

since 2.10

audioplay

since 2.10

audiomute

since 2.10

volumeup

since 2.10

volumedown

since 2.10

mediaselect

since 2.10

mail

since 2.10

calculator

since 2.10

computer

since 2.10

ac_home

since 2.10

ac_back

since 2.10

ac_forward

since 2.10

ac_refresh

since 2.10

ac_bookmarks

since 2.10 altgr, altgr_r: dropped in 2.10

muhenkan

since 2.12

katakanahiragana

since 2.12

shift

Not documented

shift_r

Not documented

alt

Not documented

alt_r

Not documented

ctrl

Not documented

ctrl_r

Not documented

menu

Not documented

esc

Not documented

1

Not documented

2

Not documented

3

Not documented

4

Not documented

5

Not documented

6

Not documented

7

Not documented

8

Not documented

9

Not documented

0

Not documented

minus

Not documented

equal

Not documented

backspace

Not documented

tab

Not documented

q

Not documented

w

Not documented

e

Not documented

r

Not documented

t

Not documented

y

Not documented

u

Not documented

i

Not documented

o

Not documented

p

Not documented

bracket_left

Not documented

bracket_right

Not documented

ret

Not documented

a

Not documented

s

Not documented

d

Not documented

f

Not documented

g

Not documented

h

Not documented

j

Not documented

k

Not documented

l

Not documented

semicolon

Not documented

apostrophe

Not documented

grave_accent

Not documented

backslash

Not documented

z

Not documented

x

Not documented

c

Not documented

v

Not documented

b

Not documented

n

Not documented

m

Not documented

comma

Not documented

dot

Not documented

slash

Not documented

asterisk

Not documented

spc

Not documented

caps_lock

Not documented

f1

Not documented

f2

Not documented

f3

Not documented

f4

Not documented

f5

Not documented

f6

Not documented

f7

Not documented

f8

Not documented

f9

Not documented

f10

Not documented

num_lock

Not documented

scroll_lock

Not documented

kp_divide

Not documented

kp_multiply

Not documented

kp_subtract

Not documented

kp_add

Not documented

kp_enter

Not documented

kp_decimal

Not documented

sysrq

Not documented

kp_0

Not documented

kp_1

Not documented

kp_2

Not documented

kp_3

Not documented

kp_4

Not documented

kp_5

Not documented

kp_6

Not documented

kp_7

Not documented

kp_8

Not documented

kp_9

Not documented

less

Not documented

f11

Not documented

f12

Not documented

print

Not documented

home

Not documented

pgup

Not documented

pgdn

Not documented

end

Not documented

left

Not documented

up

Not documented

down

Not documented

right

Not documented

insert

Not documented

delete

Not documented

stop

Not documented

again

Not documented

props

Not documented

undo

Not documented

front

Not documented

copy

Not documented

open

Not documented

paste

Not documented

find

Not documented

cut

Not documented

lf

Not documented

help

Not documented

meta_l

Not documented

meta_r

Not documented

compose

Not documented

’sysrq’ was mistakenly added to hack around the fact that the ps2 driver was not generating correct scancodes sequences when ’alt+print’ was pressed. This flaw is now fixed and the ’sysrq’ key serves no further purpose. Any further use of ’sysrq’ will be transparently changed to ’print’, so they are effectively synonyms.

Since: 1.3.0

Object: KeyValue

Represents a keyboard key.

Members:

type

One of "number", "qcode"

data: int when type is "number"
data: QKeyCode when type is "qcode"

Since: 1.3.0

Command: send-key

Send keys to guest.

Arguments:

keys: array of KeyValue

An array of KeyValue elements. All KeyValues in this array are simultaneously sent to the guest. A KeyValue.number value is sent directly to the guest, while KeyValue.qcode must be a valid QKeyCode value

hold-time: int (optional)

time to delay key up events, milliseconds. Defaults to 100

Returns: Nothing on success If key is unknown or redundant, InvalidParameter

Since: 1.3.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "send-key",
     "arguments": { "keys": [ { "type": "qcode", "data": "ctrl" },
                              { "type": "qcode", "data": "alt" },
                              { "type": "qcode", "data": "delete" } ] } }
<- { "return": {} }
Enum: InputButton

Button of a pointer input device (mouse, tablet).

Values:

side

front side button of a 5-button mouse (since 2.9)

extra

rear side button of a 5-button mouse (since 2.9)

left

Not documented

middle

Not documented

right

Not documented

wheel-up

Not documented

wheel-down

Not documented

Since: 2.0

Enum: InputAxis

Position axis of a pointer input device (mouse, tablet).

Values:

x

Not documented

y

Not documented

Since: 2.0

Object: InputKeyEvent

Keyboard input event.

Members:

key: KeyValue

Which key this event is for.

down: boolean

True for key-down and false for key-up events.

Since: 2.0

Object: InputBtnEvent

Pointer button input event.

Members:

button: InputButton

Which button this event is for.

down: boolean

True for key-down and false for key-up events.

Since: 2.0

Object: InputMoveEvent

Pointer motion input event.

Members:

axis: InputAxis

Which axis is referenced by value.

value: int

Pointer position. For absolute coordinates the valid range is 0 -> 0x7ffff

Since: 2.0

Object: InputEvent

Input event union.

Members:

type

the input type, one of:

  • - ’key’: Input event of Keyboard
  • - ’btn’: Input event of pointer buttons
  • - ’rel’: Input event of relative pointer motion
  • - ’abs’: Input event of absolute pointer motion
data: InputKeyEvent when type is "key"
data: InputBtnEvent when type is "btn"
data: InputMoveEvent when type is "rel"
data: InputMoveEvent when type is "abs"

Since: 2.0

Command: input-send-event

Send input event(s) to guest.

Arguments:

device: string (optional)

display device to send event(s) to.

head: int (optional)

head to send event(s) to, in case the display device supports multiple scanouts.

events: array of InputEvent

List of InputEvent union.

Returns: Nothing on success.

The device and head parameters can be used to send the input event to specific input devices in case (a) multiple input devices of the same kind are added to the virtual machine and (b) you have configured input routing (see docs/multiseat.txt) for those input devices. The parameters work exactly like the device and head properties of input devices. If device is missing, only devices that have no input routing config are admissible. If device is specified, both input devices with and without input routing config are admissible, but devices with input routing config take precedence.

Since: 2.6

Note: The consoles are visible in the qom tree, under /backend/console[$index]. They have a device link and head property, so it is possible to map which console belongs to which device and display.

Example:

1. Press left mouse button.

-> { "execute": "input-send-event",
    "arguments": { "device": "video0",
                   "events": [ { "type": "btn",
                   "data" : { "down": true, "button": "left" } } ] } }
<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute": "input-send-event",
    "arguments": { "device": "video0",
                   "events": [ { "type": "btn",
                   "data" : { "down": false, "button": "left" } } ] } }
<- { "return": {} }

2. Press ctrl-alt-del.

-> { "execute": "input-send-event",
     "arguments": { "events": [
        { "type": "key", "data" : { "down": true,
          "key": {"type": "qcode", "data": "ctrl" } } },
        { "type": "key", "data" : { "down": true,
          "key": {"type": "qcode", "data": "alt" } } },
        { "type": "key", "data" : { "down": true,
          "key": {"type": "qcode", "data": "delete" } } } ] } }
<- { "return": {} }

3. Move mouse pointer to absolute coordinates (20000, 400).

-> { "execute": "input-send-event" ,
  "arguments": { "events": [
               { "type": "abs", "data" : { "axis": "x", "value" : 20000 } },
               { "type": "abs", "data" : { "axis": "y", "value" : 400 } } ] } }
<- { "return": {} }
Enum: GrabToggleKeys

Keys to toggle input-linux between host and guest.

Values:

ctrl-ctrl

Not documented

alt-alt

Not documented

meta-meta

Not documented

scrolllock

Not documented

ctrl-scrolllock

Not documented

Since: 4.0

Object: DisplayGTK

GTK display options.

Members:

grab-on-hover: boolean (optional)

Grab keyboard input on mouse hover.

zoom-to-fit: boolean (optional)

Zoom guest display to fit into the host window. When turned off the host window will be resized instead. In case the display device can notify the guest on window resizes (virtio-gpu) this will default to "on", assuming the guest will resize the display to match the window size then. Otherwise it defaults to "off". Since 3.1

Since: 2.12

Object: DisplayEGLHeadless

EGL headless display options.

Members:

rendernode: string (optional)

Which DRM render node should be used. Default is the first available node on the host.

Since: 3.1

Enum: DisplayGLMode

Display OpenGL mode.

Values:

off

Disable OpenGL (default).

on

Use OpenGL, pick context type automatically. Would better be named ’auto’ but is called ’on’ for backward compatibility with bool type.

core

Use OpenGL with Core (desktop) Context.

es

Use OpenGL with ES (embedded systems) Context.

Since: 3.0

Object: DisplayCurses

Curses display options.

Members:

charset: string (optional)

Font charset used by guest (default: CP437).

Since: 4.0

Enum: DisplayType

Display (user interface) type.

Values:

default

The default user interface, selecting from the first available of gtk, sdl, cocoa, and vnc.

none

No user interface or video output display. The guest will still see an emulated graphics card, but its output will not be displayed to the QEMU user.

gtk

The GTK user interface.

sdl

The SDL user interface.

egl-headless

No user interface, offload GL operations to a local DRI device. Graphical display need to be paired with VNC or Spice. (Since 3.1)

curses

Display video output via curses. For graphics device models which support a text mode, QEMU can display this output using a curses/ncurses interface. Nothing is displayed when the graphics device is in graphical mode or if the graphics device does not support a text mode. Generally only the VGA device models support text mode.

cocoa

The Cocoa user interface.

spice-app

Set up a Spice server and run the default associated application to connect to it. The server will redirect the serial console and QEMU monitors. (Since 4.0)

Since: 2.12

Object: DisplayOptions

Display (user interface) options.

Members:

type: DisplayType

Which DisplayType qemu should use.

full-screen: boolean (optional)

Start user interface in fullscreen mode (default: off).

window-close: boolean (optional)

Allow to quit qemu with window close button (default: on).

gl: DisplayGLMode (optional)

Enable OpenGL support (default: off).

The members of DisplayGTK when type is "gtk"
The members of DisplayCurses when type is "curses"
The members of DisplayEGLHeadless when type is "egl-headless"

Since: 2.12

Command: query-display-options

Returns information about display configuration

Returns: DisplayOptions

Since: 3.1

Enum: QAuthZListPolicy

The authorization policy result

Values:

deny

deny access

allow

allow access

Since: 4.0

Enum: QAuthZListFormat

The authorization policy match format

Values:

exact

an exact string match

glob

string with ? and * shell wildcard support

Since: 4.0

Object: QAuthZListRule

A single authorization rule.

Members:

match: string

a string or glob to match against a user identity

policy: QAuthZListPolicy

the result to return if match evaluates to true

format: QAuthZListFormat (optional)

the format of the match rule (default ’exact’)

Since: 4.0

Object: QAuthZListRuleListHack

Not exposed via QMP; hack to generate QAuthZListRuleList for use internally by the code.

Members:

unused: array of QAuthZListRule

Not documented

Since: 4.0

1.16 Migration

Object: MigrationStats

Detailed migration status.

Members:

transferred: int

amount of bytes already transferred to the target VM

remaining: int

amount of bytes remaining to be transferred to the target VM

total: int

total amount of bytes involved in the migration process

duplicate: int

number of duplicate (zero) pages (since 1.2)

skipped: int

number of skipped zero pages (since 1.5)

normal: int

number of normal pages (since 1.2)

normal-bytes: int

number of normal bytes sent (since 1.2)

dirty-pages-rate: int

number of pages dirtied by second by the guest (since 1.3)

mbps: number

throughput in megabits/sec. (since 1.6)

dirty-sync-count: int

number of times that dirty ram was synchronized (since 2.1)

postcopy-requests: int

The number of page requests received from the destination (since 2.7)

page-size: int

The number of bytes per page for the various page-based statistics (since 2.10)

multifd-bytes: int

The number of bytes sent through multifd (since 3.0)

pages-per-second: int

the number of memory pages transferred per second (Since 4.0)

Since: 0.14.0

Object: XBZRLECacheStats

Detailed XBZRLE migration cache statistics

Members:

cache-size: int

XBZRLE cache size

bytes: int

amount of bytes already transferred to the target VM

pages: int

amount of pages transferred to the target VM

cache-miss: int

number of cache miss

cache-miss-rate: number

rate of cache miss (since 2.1)

overflow: int

number of overflows

Since: 1.2

Object: CompressionStats

Detailed migration compression statistics

Members:

pages: int

amount of pages compressed and transferred to the target VM

busy: int

count of times that no free thread was available to compress data

busy-rate: number

rate of thread busy

compressed-size: int

amount of bytes after compression

compression-rate: number

rate of compressed size

Since: 3.1

Enum: MigrationStatus

An enumeration of migration status.

Values:

none

no migration has ever happened.

setup

migration process has been initiated.

cancelling

in the process of cancelling migration.

cancelled

cancelling migration is finished.

active

in the process of doing migration.

postcopy-active

like active, but now in postcopy mode. (since 2.5)

postcopy-paused

during postcopy but paused. (since 3.0)

postcopy-recover

trying to recover from a paused postcopy. (since 3.0)

completed

migration is finished.

failed

some error occurred during migration process.

colo

VM is in the process of fault tolerance, VM can not get into this state unless colo capability is enabled for migration. (since 2.8)

pre-switchover

Paused before device serialisation. (since 2.11)

device

During device serialisation when pause-before-switchover is enabled (since 2.11)

Since: 2.3

Object: MigrationInfo

Information about current migration process.

Members:

status: MigrationStatus (optional)

MigrationStatus describing the current migration status. If this field is not returned, no migration process has been initiated

ram: MigrationStats (optional)

MigrationStats containing detailed migration status, only returned if status is ’active’ or ’completed’(since 1.2)

disk: MigrationStats (optional)

MigrationStats containing detailed disk migration status, only returned if status is ’active’ and it is a block migration

xbzrle-cache: XBZRLECacheStats (optional)

XBZRLECacheStats containing detailed XBZRLE migration statistics, only returned if XBZRLE feature is on and status is ’active’ or ’completed’ (since 1.2)

total-time: int (optional)

total amount of milliseconds since migration started. If migration has ended, it returns the total migration time. (since 1.2)

downtime: int (optional)

only present when migration finishes correctly total downtime in milliseconds for the guest. (since 1.3)

expected-downtime: int (optional)

only present while migration is active expected downtime in milliseconds for the guest in last walk of the dirty bitmap. (since 1.3)

setup-time: int (optional)

amount of setup time in milliseconds before the iterations begin but after the QMP command is issued. This is designed to provide an accounting of any activities (such as RDMA pinning) which may be expensive, but do not actually occur during the iterative migration rounds themselves. (since 1.6)

cpu-throttle-percentage: int (optional)

percentage of time guest cpus are being throttled during auto-converge. This is only present when auto-converge has started throttling guest cpus. (Since 2.7)

error-desc: string (optional)

the human readable error description string, when status is ’failed’. Clients should not attempt to parse the error strings. (Since 2.7)

postcopy-blocktime: int (optional)

total time when all vCPU were blocked during postcopy live migration. This is only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is enabled. (Since 3.0)

postcopy-vcpu-blocktime: array of int (optional)

list of the postcopy blocktime per vCPU. This is only present when the postcopy-blocktime migration capability is enabled. (Since 3.0)

compression: CompressionStats (optional)

migration compression statistics, only returned if compression feature is on and status is ’active’ or ’completed’ (Since 3.1)

socket-address: array of SocketAddress (optional)

Only used for tcp, to know what the real port is (Since 4.0)

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-migrate

Returns information about current migration process. If migration is active there will be another json-object with RAM migration status and if block migration is active another one with block migration status.

Returns: MigrationInfo

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

1. Before the first migration

-> { "execute": "query-migrate" }
<- { "return": {} }

2. Migration is done and has succeeded

-> { "execute": "query-migrate" }
<- { "return": {
        "status": "completed",
        "total-time":12345,
        "setup-time":12345,
        "downtime":12345,
        "ram":{
          "transferred":123,
          "remaining":123,
          "total":246,
          "duplicate":123,
          "normal":123,
          "normal-bytes":123456,
          "dirty-sync-count":15
        }
     }
   }

3. Migration is done and has failed

-> { "execute": "query-migrate" }
<- { "return": { "status": "failed" } }

4. Migration is being performed and is not a block migration:

-> { "execute": "query-migrate" }
<- {
      "return":{
         "status":"active",
         "total-time":12345,
         "setup-time":12345,
         "expected-downtime":12345,
         "ram":{
            "transferred":123,
            "remaining":123,
            "total":246,
            "duplicate":123,
            "normal":123,
            "normal-bytes":123456,
            "dirty-sync-count":15
         }
      }
   }

5. Migration is being performed and is a block migration:

-> { "execute": "query-migrate" }
<- {
      "return":{
         "status":"active",
         "total-time":12345,
         "setup-time":12345,
         "expected-downtime":12345,
         "ram":{
            "total":1057024,
            "remaining":1053304,
            "transferred":3720,
            "duplicate":123,
            "normal":123,
            "normal-bytes":123456,
            "dirty-sync-count":15
         },
         "disk":{
            "total":20971520,
            "remaining":20880384,
            "transferred":91136
         }
      }
   }

6. Migration is being performed and XBZRLE is active:

-> { "execute": "query-migrate" }
<- {
      "return":{
         "status":"active",
         "total-time":12345,
         "setup-time":12345,
         "expected-downtime":12345,
         "ram":{
            "total":1057024,
            "remaining":1053304,
            "transferred":3720,
            "duplicate":10,
            "normal":3333,
            "normal-bytes":3412992,
            "dirty-sync-count":15
         },
         "xbzrle-cache":{
            "cache-size":67108864,
            "bytes":20971520,
            "pages":2444343,
            "cache-miss":2244,
            "cache-miss-rate":0.123,
            "overflow":34434
         }
      }
   }
Enum: MigrationCapability

Migration capabilities enumeration

Values:

xbzrle

Migration supports xbzrle (Xor Based Zero Run Length Encoding). This feature allows us to minimize migration traffic for certain work loads, by sending compressed difference of the pages

rdma-pin-all

Controls whether or not the entire VM memory footprint is mlock()’d on demand or all at once. Refer to docs/rdma.txt for usage. Disabled by default. (since 2.0)

zero-blocks

During storage migration encode blocks of zeroes efficiently. This essentially saves 1MB of zeroes per block on the wire. Enabling requires source and target VM to support this feature. To enable it is sufficient to enable the capability on the source VM. The feature is disabled by default. (since 1.6)

compress

Use multiple compression threads to accelerate live migration. This feature can help to reduce the migration traffic, by sending compressed pages. Please note that if compress and xbzrle are both on, compress only takes effect in the ram bulk stage, after that, it will be disabled and only xbzrle takes effect, this can help to minimize migration traffic. The feature is disabled by default. (since 2.4 )

events

generate events for each migration state change (since 2.4 )

auto-converge

If enabled, QEMU will automatically throttle down the guest to speed up convergence of RAM migration. (since 1.6)

postcopy-ram

Start executing on the migration target before all of RAM has been migrated, pulling the remaining pages along as needed. The capacity must have the same setting on both source and target or migration will not even start. NOTE: If the migration fails during postcopy the VM will fail. (since 2.6)

x-colo

If enabled, migration will never end, and the state of the VM on the primary side will be migrated continuously to the VM on secondary side, this process is called COarse-Grain LOck Stepping (COLO) for Non-stop Service. (since 2.8)

release-ram

if enabled, qemu will free the migrated ram pages on the source during postcopy-ram migration. (since 2.9)

block

If enabled, QEMU will also migrate the contents of all block devices. Default is disabled. A possible alternative uses mirror jobs to a builtin NBD server on the destination, which offers more flexibility. (Since 2.10)

return-path

If enabled, migration will use the return path even for precopy. (since 2.10)

pause-before-switchover

Pause outgoing migration before serialising device state and before disabling block IO (since 2.11)

multifd

Use more than one fd for migration (since 4.0)

dirty-bitmaps

If enabled, QEMU will migrate named dirty bitmaps. (since 2.12)

postcopy-blocktime

Calculate downtime for postcopy live migration (since 3.0)

late-block-activate

If enabled, the destination will not activate block devices (and thus take locks) immediately at the end of migration. (since 3.0)

x-ignore-shared

If enabled, QEMU will not migrate shared memory (since 4.0)

Since: 1.2

Object: MigrationCapabilityStatus

Migration capability information

Members:

capability: MigrationCapability

capability enum

state: boolean

capability state bool

Since: 1.2

Command: migrate-set-capabilities

Enable/Disable the following migration capabilities (like xbzrle)

Arguments:

capabilities: array of MigrationCapabilityStatus

json array of capability modifications to make

Since: 1.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate-set-capabilities" , "arguments":
     { "capabilities": [ { "capability": "xbzrle", "state": true } ] } }
Command: query-migrate-capabilities

Returns information about the current migration capabilities status

Returns: MigrationCapabilitiesStatus

Since: 1.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-migrate-capabilities" }
<- { "return": [
      {"state": false, "capability": "xbzrle"},
      {"state": false, "capability": "rdma-pin-all"},
      {"state": false, "capability": "auto-converge"},
      {"state": false, "capability": "zero-blocks"},
      {"state": false, "capability": "compress"},
      {"state": true, "capability": "events"},
      {"state": false, "capability": "postcopy-ram"},
      {"state": false, "capability": "x-colo"}
   ]}
Enum: MigrationParameter

Migration parameters enumeration

Values:

announce-initial

Initial delay (in milliseconds) before sending the first announce (Since 4.0)

announce-max

Maximum delay (in milliseconds) between packets in the announcement (Since 4.0)

announce-rounds

Number of self-announce packets sent after migration (Since 4.0)

announce-step

Increase in delay (in milliseconds) between subsequent packets in the announcement (Since 4.0)

compress-level

Set the compression level to be used in live migration, the compression level is an integer between 0 and 9, where 0 means no compression, 1 means the best compression speed, and 9 means best compression ratio which will consume more CPU.

compress-threads

Set compression thread count to be used in live migration, the compression thread count is an integer between 1 and 255.

compress-wait-thread

Controls behavior when all compression threads are currently busy. If true (default), wait for a free compression thread to become available; otherwise, send the page uncompressed. (Since 3.1)

decompress-threads

Set decompression thread count to be used in live migration, the decompression thread count is an integer between 1 and 255. Usually, decompression is at least 4 times as fast as compression, so set the decompress-threads to the number about 1/4 of compress-threads is adequate.

cpu-throttle-initial

Initial percentage of time guest cpus are throttled when migration auto-converge is activated. The default value is 20. (Since 2.7)

cpu-throttle-increment

throttle percentage increase each time auto-converge detects that migration is not making progress. The default value is 10. (Since 2.7)

tls-creds

ID of the ’tls-creds’ object that provides credentials for establishing a TLS connection over the migration data channel. On the outgoing side of the migration, the credentials must be for a ’client’ endpoint, while for the incoming side the credentials must be for a ’server’ endpoint. Setting this will enable TLS for all migrations. The default is unset, resulting in unsecured migration at the QEMU level. (Since 2.7)

tls-hostname

hostname of the target host for the migration. This is required when using x509 based TLS credentials and the migration URI does not already include a hostname. For example if using fd: or exec: based migration, the hostname must be provided so that the server’s x509 certificate identity can be validated. (Since 2.7)

tls-authz

ID of the ’authz’ object subclass that provides access control checking of the TLS x509 certificate distinguished name. This object is only resolved at time of use, so can be deleted and recreated on the fly while the migration server is active. If missing, it will default to denying access (Since 4.0)

max-bandwidth

to set maximum speed for migration. maximum speed in bytes per second. (Since 2.8)

downtime-limit

set maximum tolerated downtime for migration. maximum downtime in milliseconds (Since 2.8)

x-checkpoint-delay

The delay time (in ms) between two COLO checkpoints in periodic mode. (Since 2.8)

block-incremental

Affects how much storage is migrated when the block migration capability is enabled. When false, the entire storage backing chain is migrated into a flattened image at the destination; when true, only the active qcow2 layer is migrated and the destination must already have access to the same backing chain as was used on the source. (since 2.10)

multifd-channels

Number of channels used to migrate data in parallel. This is the same number that the number of sockets used for migration. The default value is 2 (since 4.0)

xbzrle-cache-size

cache size to be used by XBZRLE migration. It needs to be a multiple of the target page size and a power of 2 (Since 2.11)

max-postcopy-bandwidth

Background transfer bandwidth during postcopy. Defaults to 0 (unlimited). In bytes per second. (Since 3.0)

max-cpu-throttle

maximum cpu throttle percentage. Defaults to 99. (Since 3.1)

Since: 2.4

Object: MigrateSetParameters

Members:

announce-initial: int (optional)

Initial delay (in milliseconds) before sending the first announce (Since 4.0)

announce-max: int (optional)

Maximum delay (in milliseconds) between packets in the announcement (Since 4.0)

announce-rounds: int (optional)

Number of self-announce packets sent after migration (Since 4.0)

announce-step: int (optional)

Increase in delay (in milliseconds) between subsequent packets in the announcement (Since 4.0)

compress-level: int (optional)

compression level

compress-threads: int (optional)

compression thread count

compress-wait-thread: boolean (optional)

Controls behavior when all compression threads are currently busy. If true (default), wait for a free compression thread to become available; otherwise, send the page uncompressed. (Since 3.1)

decompress-threads: int (optional)

decompression thread count

cpu-throttle-initial: int (optional)

Initial percentage of time guest cpus are throttled when migration auto-converge is activated. The default value is 20. (Since 2.7)

cpu-throttle-increment: int (optional)

throttle percentage increase each time auto-converge detects that migration is not making progress. The default value is 10. (Since 2.7)

tls-creds: StrOrNull (optional)

ID of the ’tls-creds’ object that provides credentials for establishing a TLS connection over the migration data channel. On the outgoing side of the migration, the credentials must be for a ’client’ endpoint, while for the incoming side the credentials must be for a ’server’ endpoint. Setting this to a non-empty string enables TLS for all migrations. An empty string means that QEMU will use plain text mode for migration, rather than TLS (Since 2.9) Previously (since 2.7), this was reported by omitting tls-creds instead.

tls-hostname: StrOrNull (optional)

hostname of the target host for the migration. This is required when using x509 based TLS credentials and the migration URI does not already include a hostname. For example if using fd: or exec: based migration, the hostname must be provided so that the server’s x509 certificate identity can be validated. (Since 2.7) An empty string means that QEMU will use the hostname associated with the migration URI, if any. (Since 2.9) Previously (since 2.7), this was reported by omitting tls-hostname instead.

max-bandwidth: int (optional)

to set maximum speed for migration. maximum speed in bytes per second. (Since 2.8)

downtime-limit: int (optional)

set maximum tolerated downtime for migration. maximum downtime in milliseconds (Since 2.8)

x-checkpoint-delay: int (optional)

the delay time between two COLO checkpoints. (Since 2.8)

block-incremental: boolean (optional)

Affects how much storage is migrated when the block migration capability is enabled. When false, the entire storage backing chain is migrated into a flattened image at the destination; when true, only the active qcow2 layer is migrated and the destination must already have access to the same backing chain as was used on the source. (since 2.10)

multifd-channels: int (optional)

Number of channels used to migrate data in parallel. This is the same number that the number of sockets used for migration. The default value is 2 (since 4.0)

xbzrle-cache-size: int (optional)

cache size to be used by XBZRLE migration. It needs to be a multiple of the target page size and a power of 2 (Since 2.11)

max-postcopy-bandwidth: int (optional)

Background transfer bandwidth during postcopy. Defaults to 0 (unlimited). In bytes per second. (Since 3.0)

max-cpu-throttle: int (optional)

maximum cpu throttle percentage. The default value is 99. (Since 3.1)

tls-authz: StrOrNull (optional)

Not documented

Since: 2.4

Command: migrate-set-parameters

Set various migration parameters.

Arguments: the members of MigrateSetParameters

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate-set-parameters" ,
     "arguments": { "compress-level": 1 } }
Object: MigrationParameters

The optional members aren’t actually optional.

Members:

announce-initial: int (optional)

Initial delay (in milliseconds) before sending the first announce (Since 4.0)

announce-max: int (optional)

Maximum delay (in milliseconds) between packets in the announcement (Since 4.0)

announce-rounds: int (optional)

Number of self-announce packets sent after migration (Since 4.0)

announce-step: int (optional)

Increase in delay (in milliseconds) between subsequent packets in the announcement (Since 4.0)

compress-level: int (optional)

compression level

compress-threads: int (optional)

compression thread count

compress-wait-thread: boolean (optional)

Controls behavior when all compression threads are currently busy. If true (default), wait for a free compression thread to become available; otherwise, send the page uncompressed. (Since 3.1)

decompress-threads: int (optional)

decompression thread count

cpu-throttle-initial: int (optional)

Initial percentage of time guest cpus are throttled when migration auto-converge is activated. (Since 2.7)

cpu-throttle-increment: int (optional)

throttle percentage increase each time auto-converge detects that migration is not making progress. (Since 2.7)

tls-creds: string (optional)

ID of the ’tls-creds’ object that provides credentials for establishing a TLS connection over the migration data channel. On the outgoing side of the migration, the credentials must be for a ’client’ endpoint, while for the incoming side the credentials must be for a ’server’ endpoint. An empty string means that QEMU will use plain text mode for migration, rather than TLS (Since 2.7) Note: 2.8 reports this by omitting tls-creds instead.

tls-hostname: string (optional)

hostname of the target host for the migration. This is required when using x509 based TLS credentials and the migration URI does not already include a hostname. For example if using fd: or exec: based migration, the hostname must be provided so that the server’s x509 certificate identity can be validated. (Since 2.7) An empty string means that QEMU will use the hostname associated with the migration URI, if any. (Since 2.9) Note: 2.8 reports this by omitting tls-hostname instead.

tls-authz: string (optional)

ID of the ’authz’ object subclass that provides access control checking of the TLS x509 certificate distinguished name. (Since 4.0)

max-bandwidth: int (optional)

to set maximum speed for migration. maximum speed in bytes per second. (Since 2.8)

downtime-limit: int (optional)

set maximum tolerated downtime for migration. maximum downtime in milliseconds (Since 2.8)

x-checkpoint-delay: int (optional)

the delay time between two COLO checkpoints. (Since 2.8)

block-incremental: boolean (optional)

Affects how much storage is migrated when the block migration capability is enabled. When false, the entire storage backing chain is migrated into a flattened image at the destination; when true, only the active qcow2 layer is migrated and the destination must already have access to the same backing chain as was used on the source. (since 2.10)

multifd-channels: int (optional)

Number of channels used to migrate data in parallel. This is the same number that the number of sockets used for migration. The default value is 2 (since 4.0)

xbzrle-cache-size: int (optional)

cache size to be used by XBZRLE migration. It needs to be a multiple of the target page size and a power of 2 (Since 2.11)

max-postcopy-bandwidth: int (optional)

Background transfer bandwidth during postcopy. Defaults to 0 (unlimited). In bytes per second. (Since 3.0)

max-cpu-throttle: int (optional)

maximum cpu throttle percentage. Defaults to 99. (Since 3.1)

Since: 2.4

Command: query-migrate-parameters

Returns information about the current migration parameters

Returns: MigrationParameters

Since: 2.4

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-migrate-parameters" }
<- { "return": {
         "decompress-threads": 2,
         "cpu-throttle-increment": 10,
         "compress-threads": 8,
         "compress-level": 1,
         "cpu-throttle-initial": 20,
         "max-bandwidth": 33554432,
         "downtime-limit": 300
      }
   }
Command: client_migrate_info

Set migration information for remote display. This makes the server ask the client to automatically reconnect using the new parameters once migration finished successfully. Only implemented for SPICE.

Arguments:

protocol: string

must be "spice"

hostname: string

migration target hostname

port: int (optional)

spice tcp port for plaintext channels

tls-port: int (optional)

spice tcp port for tls-secured channels

cert-subject: string (optional)

server certificate subject

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "client_migrate_info",
     "arguments": { "protocol": "spice",
                    "hostname": "virt42.lab.kraxel.org",
                    "port": 1234 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: migrate-start-postcopy

Followup to a migration command to switch the migration to postcopy mode. The postcopy-ram capability must be set on both source and destination before the original migration command.

Since: 2.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate-start-postcopy" }
<- { "return": {} }
Event: MIGRATION

Emitted when a migration event happens

Arguments:

status: MigrationStatus

MigrationStatus describing the current migration status.

Since: 2.4

Example:

<- {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1432121972, "microseconds": 744001},
    "event": "MIGRATION",
    "data": {"status": "completed"} }
Event: MIGRATION_PASS

Emitted from the source side of a migration at the start of each pass (when it syncs the dirty bitmap)

Arguments:

pass: int

An incrementing count (starting at 1 on the first pass)

Since: 2.6

Example:

{ "timestamp": {"seconds": 1449669631, "microseconds": 239225},
  "event": "MIGRATION_PASS", "data": {"pass": 2} }
Enum: COLOMessage

The message transmission between Primary side and Secondary side.

Values:

checkpoint-ready

Secondary VM (SVM) is ready for checkpointing

checkpoint-request

Primary VM (PVM) tells SVM to prepare for checkpointing

checkpoint-reply

SVM gets PVM’s checkpoint request

vmstate-send

VM’s state will be sent by PVM.

vmstate-size

The total size of VMstate.

vmstate-received

VM’s state has been received by SVM.

vmstate-loaded

VM’s state has been loaded by SVM.

Since: 2.8

Enum: COLOMode

The COLO current mode.

Values:

none

COLO is disabled.

primary

COLO node in primary side.

secondary

COLO node in slave side.

Since: 2.8

Enum: FailoverStatus

An enumeration of COLO failover status

Values:

none

no failover has ever happened

require

got failover requirement but not handled

active

in the process of doing failover

completed

finish the process of failover

relaunch

restart the failover process, from ’none’ -> ’completed’ (Since 2.9)

Since: 2.8

Event: COLO_EXIT

Emitted when VM finishes COLO mode due to some errors happening or at the request of users.

Arguments:

mode: COLOMode

report COLO mode when COLO exited.

reason: COLOExitReason

describes the reason for the COLO exit.

Since: 3.1

Example:

<- { "timestamp": {"seconds": 2032141960, "microseconds": 417172},
     "event": "COLO_EXIT", "data": {"mode": "primary", "reason": "request" } }
Enum: COLOExitReason

The reason for a COLO exit.

Values:

none

failover has never happened. This state does not occur in the COLO_EXIT event, and is only visible in the result of query-colo-status.

request

COLO exit is due to an external request.

error

COLO exit is due to an internal error.

processing

COLO is currently handling a failover (since 4.0).

Since: 3.1

Command: x-colo-lost-heartbeat

Tell qemu that heartbeat is lost, request it to do takeover procedures. If this command is sent to the PVM, the Primary side will exit COLO mode. If sent to the Secondary, the Secondary side will run failover work, then takes over server operation to become the service VM.

Since: 2.8

Example:

-> { "execute": "x-colo-lost-heartbeat" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: migrate_cancel

Cancel the current executing migration process.

Returns: nothing on success

Notes: This command succeeds even if there is no migration process running.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate_cancel" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: migrate-continue

Continue migration when it’s in a paused state.

Arguments:

state: MigrationStatus

The state the migration is currently expected to be in

Returns: nothing on success

Since: 2.11

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate-continue" , "arguments":
     { "state": "pre-switchover" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: migrate_set_downtime

Set maximum tolerated downtime for migration.

Arguments:

value: number

maximum downtime in seconds

Returns: nothing on success

Notes: This command is deprecated in favor of ’migrate-set-parameters’

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate_set_downtime", "arguments": { "value": 0.1 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: migrate_set_speed

Set maximum speed for migration.

Arguments:

value: int

maximum speed in bytes per second.

Returns: nothing on success

Notes: This command is deprecated in favor of ’migrate-set-parameters’

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate_set_speed", "arguments": { "value": 1024 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: migrate-set-cache-size

Set cache size to be used by XBZRLE migration

Arguments:

value: int

cache size in bytes

The size will be rounded down to the nearest power of 2. The cache size can be modified before and during ongoing migration

Returns: nothing on success

Notes: This command is deprecated in favor of ’migrate-set-parameters’

Since: 1.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate-set-cache-size",
     "arguments": { "value": 536870912 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: query-migrate-cache-size

Query migration XBZRLE cache size

Returns: XBZRLE cache size in bytes

Notes: This command is deprecated in favor of ’query-migrate-parameters’

Since: 1.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-migrate-cache-size" }
<- { "return": 67108864 }
Command: migrate

Migrates the current running guest to another Virtual Machine.

Arguments:

uri: string

the Uniform Resource Identifier of the destination VM

blk: boolean (optional)

do block migration (full disk copy)

inc: boolean (optional)

incremental disk copy migration

detach: boolean (optional)

this argument exists only for compatibility reasons and is ignored by QEMU

resume: boolean (optional)

resume one paused migration, default "off". (since 3.0)

Returns: nothing on success

Since: 0.14.0

Notes:

  1. The ’query-migrate’ command should be used to check migration’s progress and final result (this information is provided by the ’status’ member)
  2. All boolean arguments default to false
  3. The user Monitor’s "detach" argument is invalid in QMP and should not be used

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate", "arguments": { "uri": "tcp:0:4446" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: migrate-incoming

Start an incoming migration, the qemu must have been started with -incoming defer

Arguments:

uri: string

The Uniform Resource Identifier identifying the source or address to listen on

Returns: nothing on success

Since: 2.3

Notes:

  1. It’s a bad idea to use a string for the uri, but it needs to stay compatible with -incoming and the format of the uri is already exposed above libvirt.
  2. QEMU must be started with -incoming defer to allow migrate-incoming to be used.
  3. The uri format is the same as for -incoming

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate-incoming",
     "arguments": { "uri": "tcp::4446" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: xen-save-devices-state

Save the state of all devices to file. The RAM and the block devices of the VM are not saved by this command.

Arguments:

filename: string

the file to save the state of the devices to as binary data. See xen-save-devices-state.txt for a description of the binary format.

live: boolean (optional)

Optional argument to ask QEMU to treat this command as part of a live migration. Default to true. (since 2.11)

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 1.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "xen-save-devices-state",
     "arguments": { "filename": "/tmp/save" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: xen-set-replication

Enable or disable replication.

Arguments:

enable: boolean

true to enable, false to disable.

primary: boolean

true for primary or false for secondary.

failover: boolean (optional)

true to do failover, false to stop. but cannot be specified if ’enable’ is true. default value is false.

Returns: nothing.

Example:

-> { "execute": "xen-set-replication",
     "arguments": {"enable": true, "primary": false} }
<- { "return": {} }

Since: 2.9

If: defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION)

Object: ReplicationStatus

The result format for ’query-xen-replication-status’.

Members:

error: boolean

true if an error happened, false if replication is normal.

desc: string (optional)

the human readable error description string, when error is ’true’.

Since: 2.9

If: defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION)

Command: query-xen-replication-status

Query replication status while the vm is running.

Returns: A ReplicationResult object showing the status.

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-xen-replication-status" }
<- { "return": { "error": false } }

Since: 2.9

If: defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION)

Command: xen-colo-do-checkpoint

Xen uses this command to notify replication to trigger a checkpoint.

Returns: nothing.

Example:

-> { "execute": "xen-colo-do-checkpoint" }
<- { "return": {} }

Since: 2.9

If: defined(CONFIG_REPLICATION)

Object: COLOStatus

The result format for ’query-colo-status’.

Members:

mode: COLOMode

COLO running mode. If COLO is running, this field will return ’primary’ or ’secondary’.

last-mode: COLOMode

COLO last running mode. If COLO is running, this field will return same like mode field, after failover we can use this field to get last colo mode. (since 4.0)

reason: COLOExitReason

describes the reason for the COLO exit.

Since: 3.1

Command: query-colo-status

Query COLO status while the vm is running.

Returns: A COLOStatus object showing the status.

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-colo-status" }
<- { "return": { "mode": "primary", "reason": "request" } }

Since: 3.1

Command: migrate-recover

Provide a recovery migration stream URI.

Arguments:

uri: string

the URI to be used for the recovery of migration stream.

Returns: nothing.

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate-recover",
     "arguments": { "uri": "tcp:192.168.1.200:12345" } }
<- { "return": {} }

Since: 3.0

Command: migrate-pause

Pause a migration. Currently it only supports postcopy.

Returns: nothing.

Example:

-> { "execute": "migrate-pause" }
<- { "return": {} }

Since: 3.0

1.17 Transactions

Object: Abort

This action can be used to test transaction failure.

Since: 1.6

Enum: ActionCompletionMode

An enumeration of Transactional completion modes.

Values:

individual

Do not attempt to cancel any other Actions if any Actions fail after the Transaction request succeeds. All Actions that can complete successfully will do so without waiting on others. This is the default.

grouped

If any Action fails after the Transaction succeeds, cancel all Actions. Actions do not complete until all Actions are ready to complete. May be rejected by Actions that do not support this completion mode.

Since: 2.5

Object: TransactionAction

A discriminated record of operations that can be performed with transaction. Action type can be:

Members:

type

One of "abort", "block-dirty-bitmap-add", "block-dirty-bitmap-clear", "block-dirty-bitmap-enable", "block-dirty-bitmap-disable", "block-dirty-bitmap-merge", "blockdev-backup", "blockdev-snapshot", "blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync", "blockdev-snapshot-sync", "drive-backup"

data: Abort when type is "abort"
data: BlockDirtyBitmapAdd when type is "block-dirty-bitmap-add"
data: BlockDirtyBitmap when type is "block-dirty-bitmap-clear"
data: BlockDirtyBitmap when type is "block-dirty-bitmap-enable"
data: BlockDirtyBitmap when type is "block-dirty-bitmap-disable"
data: BlockDirtyBitmapMerge when type is "block-dirty-bitmap-merge"
data: BlockdevBackup when type is "blockdev-backup"
data: BlockdevSnapshot when type is "blockdev-snapshot"
data: BlockdevSnapshotInternal when type is "blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync"
data: BlockdevSnapshotSync when type is "blockdev-snapshot-sync"
data: DriveBackup when type is "drive-backup"

Since: 1.1

Object: TransactionProperties

Optional arguments to modify the behavior of a Transaction.

Members:

completion-mode: ActionCompletionMode (optional)

Controls how jobs launched asynchronously by Actions will complete or fail as a group. See ActionCompletionMode for details.

Since: 2.5

Command: transaction

Executes a number of transactionable QMP commands atomically. If any operation fails, then the entire set of actions will be abandoned and the appropriate error returned.

For external snapshots, the dictionary contains the device, the file to use for the new snapshot, and the format. The default format, if not specified, is qcow2.

Each new snapshot defaults to being created by QEMU (wiping any contents if the file already exists), but it is also possible to reuse an externally-created file. In the latter case, you should ensure that the new image file has the same contents as the current one; QEMU cannot perform any meaningful check. Typically this is achieved by using the current image file as the backing file for the new image.

On failure, the original disks pre-snapshot attempt will be used.

For internal snapshots, the dictionary contains the device and the snapshot’s name. If an internal snapshot matching name already exists, the request will be rejected. Only some image formats support it, for example, qcow2, rbd, and sheepdog.

On failure, qemu will try delete the newly created internal snapshot in the transaction. When an I/O error occurs during deletion, the user needs to fix it later with qemu-img or other command.

Arguments:

actions: array of TransactionAction

List of TransactionAction; information needed for the respective operations.

properties: TransactionProperties (optional)

structure of additional options to control the execution of the transaction. See TransactionProperties for additional detail.

Returns: nothing on success

Errors depend on the operations of the transaction

Note: The transaction aborts on the first failure. Therefore, there will be information on only one failed operation returned in an error condition, and subsequent actions will not have been attempted.

Since: 1.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "transaction",
     "arguments": { "actions": [
         { "type": "blockdev-snapshot-sync", "data" : { "device": "ide-hd0",
                                     "snapshot-file": "/some/place/my-image",
                                     "format": "qcow2" } },
         { "type": "blockdev-snapshot-sync", "data" : { "node-name": "myfile",
                                     "snapshot-file": "/some/place/my-image2",
                                     "snapshot-node-name": "node3432",
                                     "mode": "existing",
                                     "format": "qcow2" } },
         { "type": "blockdev-snapshot-sync", "data" : { "device": "ide-hd1",
                                     "snapshot-file": "/some/place/my-image2",
                                     "mode": "existing",
                                     "format": "qcow2" } },
         { "type": "blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync", "data" : {
                                     "device": "ide-hd2",
                                     "name": "snapshot0" } } ] } }
<- { "return": {} }

1.18 Tracing

Enum: TraceEventState

State of a tracing event.

Values:

unavailable

The event is statically disabled.

disabled

The event is dynamically disabled.

enabled

The event is dynamically enabled.

Since: 2.2

Object: TraceEventInfo

Information of a tracing event.

Members:

name: string

Event name.

state: TraceEventState

Tracing state.

vcpu: boolean

Whether this is a per-vCPU event (since 2.7).

An event is per-vCPU if it has the "vcpu" property in the "trace-events" files.

Since: 2.2

Command: trace-event-get-state

Query the state of events.

Arguments:

name: string

Event name pattern (case-sensitive glob).

vcpu: int (optional)

The vCPU to query (any by default; since 2.7).

Returns: a list of TraceEventInfo for the matching events

An event is returned if:

Therefore, if vcpu is given, the operation will only match per-vCPU events, returning their state on the specified vCPU. Special case: if name is an exact match, vcpu is given and the event does not have the "vcpu" property, an error is returned.

Since: 2.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "trace-event-get-state",
     "arguments": { "name": "qemu_memalign" } }
<- { "return": [ { "name": "qemu_memalign", "state": "disabled" } ] }
Command: trace-event-set-state

Set the dynamic tracing state of events.

Arguments:

name: string

Event name pattern (case-sensitive glob).

enable: boolean

Whether to enable tracing.

ignore-unavailable: boolean (optional)

Do not match unavailable events with name.

vcpu: int (optional)

The vCPU to act upon (all by default; since 2.7).

An event’s state is modified if:

Therefore, if vcpu is given, the operation will only match per-vCPU events, setting their state on the specified vCPU. Special case: if name is an exact match, vcpu is given and the event does not have the "vcpu" property, an error is returned.

Since: 2.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "trace-event-set-state",
     "arguments": { "name": "qemu_memalign", "enable": "true" } }
<- { "return": {} }

1.19 QMP introspection

Command: query-qmp-schema

Command query-qmp-schema exposes the QMP wire ABI as an array of SchemaInfo. This lets QMP clients figure out what commands and events are available in this QEMU, and their parameters and results.

However, the SchemaInfo can’t reflect all the rules and restrictions that apply to QMP. It’s interface introspection (figuring out what’s there), not interface specification. The specification is in the QAPI schema.

Furthermore, while we strive to keep the QMP wire format backwards-compatible across qemu versions, the introspection output is not guaranteed to have the same stability. For example, one version of qemu may list an object member as an optional non-variant, while another lists the same member only through the object’s variants; or the type of a member may change from a generic string into a specific enum or from one specific type into an alternate that includes the original type alongside something else.

Returns: array of SchemaInfo, where each element describes an entity in the ABI: command, event, type, ...

The order of the various SchemaInfo is unspecified; however, all names are guaranteed to be unique (no name will be duplicated with different meta-types).

Note: the QAPI schema is also used to help define internal interfaces, by defining QAPI types. These are not part of the QMP wire ABI, and therefore not returned by this command.

Since: 2.5

Enum: SchemaMetaType

This is a SchemaInfo’s meta type, i.e. the kind of entity it describes.

Values:

builtin

a predefined type such as ’int’ or ’bool’.

enum

an enumeration type

array

an array type

object

an object type (struct or union)

alternate

an alternate type

command

a QMP command

event

a QMP event

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfo

Members:

name: string

the entity’s name, inherited from base. The SchemaInfo is always referenced by this name. Commands and events have the name defined in the QAPI schema. Unlike command and event names, type names are not part of the wire ABI. Consequently, type names are meaningless strings here, although they are still guaranteed unique regardless of meta-type.

meta-type: SchemaMetaType

the entity’s meta type, inherited from base.

The members of SchemaInfoBuiltin when meta-type is "builtin"
The members of SchemaInfoEnum when meta-type is "enum"
The members of SchemaInfoArray when meta-type is "array"
The members of SchemaInfoObject when meta-type is "object"
The members of SchemaInfoAlternate when meta-type is "alternate"
The members of SchemaInfoCommand when meta-type is "command"
The members of SchemaInfoEvent when meta-type is "event"

Additional members depend on the value of meta-type.

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoBuiltin

Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type ’builtin’.

Members:

json-type: JSONType

the JSON type used for this type on the wire.

Since: 2.5

Enum: JSONType

The four primitive and two structured types according to RFC 8259 section 1, plus ’int’ (split off ’number’), plus the obvious top type ’value’.

Values:

string

Not documented

number

Not documented

int

Not documented

boolean

Not documented

null

Not documented

object

Not documented

array

Not documented

value

Not documented

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoEnum

Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type ’enum’.

Members:

values: array of string

the enumeration type’s values, in no particular order.

Values of this type are JSON string on the wire.

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoArray

Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type ’array’.

Members:

element-type: string

the array type’s element type.

Values of this type are JSON array on the wire.

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoObject

Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type ’object’.

Members:

members: array of SchemaInfoObjectMember

the object type’s (non-variant) members, in no particular order.

tag: string (optional)

the name of the member serving as type tag. An element of members with this name must exist.

variants: array of SchemaInfoObjectVariant (optional)

variant members, i.e. additional members that depend on the type tag’s value. Present exactly when tag is present. The variants are in no particular order, and may even differ from the order of the values of the enum type of the tag.

features: array of string (optional)

names of features associated with the type, in no particular order. (since: 4.1)

Values of this type are JSON object on the wire.

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoObjectMember

An object member.

Members:

name: string

the member’s name, as defined in the QAPI schema.

type: string

the name of the member’s type.

default: value (optional)

default when used as command parameter. If absent, the parameter is mandatory. If present, the value must be null. The parameter is optional, and behavior when it’s missing is not specified here. Future extension: if present and non-null, the parameter is optional, and defaults to this value.

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoObjectVariant

The variant members for a value of the type tag.

Members:

case: string

a value of the type tag.

type: string

the name of the object type that provides the variant members when the type tag has value case.

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoAlternate

Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type ’alternate’.

Members:

members: array of SchemaInfoAlternateMember

the alternate type’s members, in no particular order. The members’ wire encoding is distinct, see docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.txt section Alternate types.

On the wire, this can be any of the members.

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoAlternateMember

An alternate member.

Members:

type: string

the name of the member’s type.

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoCommand

Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type ’command’.

Members:

arg-type: string

the name of the object type that provides the command’s parameters.

ret-type: string

the name of the command’s result type.

allow-oob: boolean (optional)

whether the command allows out-of-band execution, defaults to false (Since: 2.12)

TODO: success-response (currently irrelevant, because it’s QGA, not QMP)

Since: 2.5

Object: SchemaInfoEvent

Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type ’event’.

Members:

arg-type: string

the name of the object type that provides the event’s parameters.

Since: 2.5

1.20 QEMU Object Model (QOM)

Object: ObjectPropertyInfo

Members:

name: string

the name of the property

type: string

the type of the property. This will typically come in one of four forms:

1) A primitive type such as ’u8’, ’u16’, ’bool’, ’str’, or ’double’. These types are mapped to the appropriate JSON type.

2) A child type in the form ’child<subtype>’ where subtype is a qdev device type name. Child properties create the composition tree.

3) A link type in the form ’link<subtype>’ where subtype is a qdev device type name. Link properties form the device model graph.

description: string (optional)

if specified, the description of the property.

Since: 1.2

Command: qom-list

This command will list any properties of a object given a path in the object model.

Arguments:

path: string

the path within the object model. See qom-get for a description of this parameter.

Returns: a list of ObjectPropertyInfo that describe the properties of the object.

Since: 1.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "qom-list",
     "arguments": { "path": "/chardevs" } }
<- { "return": [ { "name": "type", "type": "string" },
                 { "name": "parallel0", "type": "child<chardev-vc>" },
                 { "name": "serial0", "type": "child<chardev-vc>" },
                 { "name": "mon0", "type": "child<chardev-stdio>" } ] }
Command: qom-get

This command will get a property from a object model path and return the value.

Arguments:

path: string

The path within the object model. There are two forms of supported paths–absolute and partial paths.

Absolute paths are derived from the root object and can follow child<> or link<> properties. Since they can follow link<> properties, they can be arbitrarily long. Absolute paths look like absolute filenames and are prefixed with a leading slash.

Partial paths look like relative filenames. They do not begin with a prefix. The matching rules for partial paths are subtle but designed to make specifying objects easy. At each level of the composition tree, the partial path is matched as an absolute path. The first match is not returned. At least two matches are searched for. A successful result is only returned if only one match is found. If more than one match is found, a flag is return to indicate that the match was ambiguous.

property: string

The property name to read

Returns: The property value. The type depends on the property type. child<> and link<> properties are returned as #str pathnames. All integer property types (u8, u16, etc) are returned as #int.

Since: 1.2

Example:

1. Use absolute path

-> { "execute": "qom-get",
     "arguments": { "path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]",
                    "property": "hotplugged" } }
<- { "return": false }

2. Use partial path

-> { "execute": "qom-get",
     "arguments": { "path": "unattached/sysbus",
                    "property": "type" } }
<- { "return": "System" }
Command: qom-set

This command will set a property from a object model path.

Arguments:

path: string

see qom-get for a description of this parameter

property: string

the property name to set

value: value

a value who’s type is appropriate for the property type. See qom-get for a description of type mapping.

Since: 1.2

Example:

-> { "execute": "qom-set",
     "arguments": { "path": "/machine",
                    "property": "graphics",
                    "value": false } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: ObjectTypeInfo

This structure describes a search result from qom-list-types

Members:

name: string

the type name found in the search

abstract: boolean (optional)

the type is abstract and can’t be directly instantiated. Omitted if false. (since 2.10)

parent: string (optional)

Name of parent type, if any (since 2.10)

Since: 1.1

Command: qom-list-types

This command will return a list of types given search parameters

Arguments:

implements: string (optional)

if specified, only return types that implement this type name

abstract: boolean (optional)

if true, include abstract types in the results

Returns: a list of ObjectTypeInfo or an empty list if no results are found

Since: 1.1

Command: qom-list-properties

List properties associated with a QOM object.

Arguments:

typename: string

the type name of an object

Note: objects can create properties at runtime, for example to describe links between different devices and/or objects. These properties are not included in the output of this command.

Returns: a list of ObjectPropertyInfo describing object properties

Since: 2.12

Command: object-add

Create a QOM object.

Arguments:

qom-type: string

the class name for the object to be created

id: string

the name of the new object

props: value (optional)

a dictionary of properties to be passed to the backend

Returns: Nothing on success Error if qom-type is not a valid class name

Since: 2.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "object-add",
     "arguments": { "qom-type": "rng-random", "id": "rng1",
                    "props": { "filename": "/dev/hwrng" } } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: object-del

Remove a QOM object.

Arguments:

id: string

the name of the QOM object to remove

Returns: Nothing on success Error if id is not a valid id for a QOM object

Since: 2.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "object-del", "arguments": { "id": "rng1" } }
<- { "return": {} }

1.21 Device infrastructure (qdev)

Command: device-list-properties

List properties associated with a device.

Arguments:

typename: string

the type name of a device

Returns: a list of ObjectPropertyInfo describing a devices properties

Note: objects can create properties at runtime, for example to describe links between different devices and/or objects. These properties are not included in the output of this command.

Since: 1.2

Command: device_add

Arguments:

driver: string

the name of the new device’s driver

bus: string (optional)

the device’s parent bus (device tree path)

id: string (optional)

the device’s ID, must be unique

Additional arguments depend on the type.

Add a device.

Notes:

  1. For detailed information about this command, please refer to the ’docs/qdev-device-use.txt’ file.
  2. It’s possible to list device properties by running QEMU with the "-device DEVICE,help" command-line argument, where DEVICE is the device’s name

Example:

-> { "execute": "device_add",
     "arguments": { "driver": "e1000", "id": "net1",
                    "bus": "pci.0",
                    "mac": "52:54:00:12:34:56" } }
<- { "return": {} }

TODO: This command effectively bypasses QAPI completely due to its "additional arguments" business. It shouldn’t have been added to the schema in this form. It should be qapified properly, or replaced by a properly qapified command.

Since: 0.13

Command: device_del

Remove a device from a guest

Arguments:

id: string

the device’s ID or QOM path

Returns: Nothing on success If id is not a valid device, DeviceNotFound

Notes: When this command completes, the device may not be removed from the guest. Hot removal is an operation that requires guest cooperation. This command merely requests that the guest begin the hot removal process. Completion of the device removal process is signaled with a DEVICE_DELETED event. Guest reset will automatically complete removal for all devices.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "device_del",
     "arguments": { "id": "net1" } }
<- { "return": {} }

-> { "execute": "device_del",
     "arguments": { "id": "/machine/peripheral-anon/device[0]" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Event: DEVICE_DELETED

Emitted whenever the device removal completion is acknowledged by the guest. At this point, it’s safe to reuse the specified device ID. Device removal can be initiated by the guest or by HMP/QMP commands.

Arguments:

device: string (optional)

device name

path: string

device path

Since: 1.5

Example:

<- { "event": "DEVICE_DELETED",
     "data": { "device": "virtio-net-pci-0",
               "path": "/machine/peripheral/virtio-net-pci-0" },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1265044230, "microseconds": 450486 } }

1.22 Machines

Enum: CpuInfoArch

An enumeration of cpu types that enable additional information during query-cpus and query-cpus-fast.

Values:

s390

since 2.12

riscv

since 2.12

x86

Not documented

sparc

Not documented

ppc

Not documented

mips

Not documented

tricore

Not documented

other

Not documented

Since: 2.6

Object: CpuInfo

Information about a virtual CPU

Members:

CPU: int

the index of the virtual CPU

current: boolean

this only exists for backwards compatibility and should be ignored

halted: boolean

true if the virtual CPU is in the halt state. Halt usually refers to a processor specific low power mode.

qom_path: string

path to the CPU object in the QOM tree (since 2.4)

thread_id: int

ID of the underlying host thread

props: CpuInstanceProperties (optional)

properties describing to which node/socket/core/thread virtual CPU belongs to, provided if supported by board (since 2.10)

arch: CpuInfoArch

architecture of the cpu, which determines which additional fields will be listed (since 2.6)

The members of CpuInfoX86 when arch is "x86"
The members of CpuInfoSPARC when arch is "sparc"
The members of CpuInfoPPC when arch is "ppc"
The members of CpuInfoMIPS when arch is "mips"
The members of CpuInfoTricore when arch is "tricore"
The members of CpuInfoS390 when arch is "s390"
The members of CpuInfoRISCV when arch is "riscv"

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: halted is a transient state that changes frequently. By the time the data is sent to the client, the guest may no longer be halted.

Object: CpuInfoX86

Additional information about a virtual i386 or x86_64 CPU

Members:

pc: int

the 64-bit instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

Object: CpuInfoSPARC

Additional information about a virtual SPARC CPU

Members:

pc: int

the PC component of the instruction pointer

npc: int

the NPC component of the instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

Object: CpuInfoPPC

Additional information about a virtual PPC CPU

Members:

nip: int

the instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

Object: CpuInfoMIPS

Additional information about a virtual MIPS CPU

Members:

PC: int

the instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

Object: CpuInfoTricore

Additional information about a virtual Tricore CPU

Members:

PC: int

the instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

Object: CpuInfoRISCV

Additional information about a virtual RISCV CPU

Members:

pc: int

the instruction pointer

Since 2.12

Enum: CpuS390State

An enumeration of cpu states that can be assumed by a virtual S390 CPU

Values:

uninitialized

Not documented

stopped

Not documented

check-stop

Not documented

operating

Not documented

load

Not documented

Since: 2.12

Object: CpuInfoS390

Additional information about a virtual S390 CPU

Members:

cpu-state: CpuS390State

the virtual CPU’s state

Since: 2.12

Command: query-cpus

Returns a list of information about each virtual CPU.

This command causes vCPU threads to exit to userspace, which causes a small interruption to guest CPU execution. This will have a negative impact on realtime guests and other latency sensitive guest workloads. It is recommended to use query-cpus-fast instead of this command to avoid the vCPU interruption.

Returns: a list of CpuInfo for each virtual CPU

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-cpus" }
<- { "return": [
         {
            "CPU":0,
            "current":true,
            "halted":false,
            "qom_path":"/machine/unattached/device[0]",
            "arch":"x86",
            "pc":3227107138,
            "thread_id":3134
         },
         {
            "CPU":1,
            "current":false,
            "halted":true,
            "qom_path":"/machine/unattached/device[2]",
            "arch":"x86",
            "pc":7108165,
            "thread_id":3135
         }
      ]
   }

Notes: This interface is deprecated (since 2.12.0), and it is strongly recommended that you avoid using it. Use query-cpus-fast to obtain information about virtual CPUs.

Object: CpuInfoFast

Information about a virtual CPU

Members:

cpu-index: int

index of the virtual CPU

qom-path: string

path to the CPU object in the QOM tree

thread-id: int

ID of the underlying host thread

props: CpuInstanceProperties (optional)

properties describing to which node/socket/core/thread virtual CPU belongs to, provided if supported by board

arch: CpuInfoArch

base architecture of the cpu; deprecated since 3.0.0 in favor of target

target: SysEmuTarget

the QEMU system emulation target, which determines which additional fields will be listed (since 3.0)

The members of CpuInfoS390 when target is "s390x"

Since: 2.12

Command: query-cpus-fast

Returns information about all virtual CPUs. This command does not incur a performance penalty and should be used in production instead of query-cpus.

Returns: list of CpuInfoFast

Since: 2.12

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-cpus-fast" }
<- { "return": [
        {
            "thread-id": 25627,
            "props": {
                "core-id": 0,
                "thread-id": 0,
                "socket-id": 0
            },
            "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]",
            "arch":"x86",
            "target":"x86_64",
            "cpu-index": 0
        },
        {
            "thread-id": 25628,
            "props": {
                "core-id": 0,
                "thread-id": 0,
                "socket-id": 1
            },
            "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[2]",
            "arch":"x86",
            "target":"x86_64",
            "cpu-index": 1
        }
    ]
}
Command: cpu-add

Adds CPU with specified ID.

Arguments:

id: int

ID of CPU to be created, valid values [0..max_cpus)

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 1.5

Note: This command is deprecated. The ‘device_add‘ command should be used instead. See the ‘query-hotpluggable-cpus‘ command for details.

Example:

-> { "execute": "cpu-add", "arguments": { "id": 2 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: MachineInfo

Information describing a machine.

Members:

name: string

the name of the machine

alias: string (optional)

an alias for the machine name

is-default: boolean (optional)

whether the machine is default

cpu-max: int

maximum number of CPUs supported by the machine type (since 1.5.0)

hotpluggable-cpus: boolean

cpu hotplug via -device is supported (since 2.7.0)

numa-mem-supported: boolean

true if ’-numa node,mem’ option is supported by the machine type and false otherwise (since 4.1)

deprecated: boolean

if true, the machine type is deprecated and may be removed in future versions of QEMU according to the QEMU deprecation policy (since 4.1.0)

Since: 1.2.0

Command: query-machines

Return a list of supported machines

Returns: a list of MachineInfo

Since: 1.2.0

Object: CurrentMachineParams

Information describing the running machine parameters.

Members:

wakeup-suspend-support: boolean

true if the machine supports wake up from suspend

Since: 4.0

Command: query-current-machine

Return information on the current virtual machine.

Returns: CurrentMachineParams

Since: 4.0

Enum: NumaOptionsType

Values:

node

NUMA nodes configuration

dist

NUMA distance configuration (since 2.10)

cpu

property based CPU(s) to node mapping (Since: 2.10)

Since: 2.1

Object: NumaOptions

A discriminated record of NUMA options. (for OptsVisitor)

Members:

type: NumaOptionsType

Not documented

The members of NumaNodeOptions when type is "node"
The members of NumaDistOptions when type is "dist"
The members of NumaCpuOptions when type is "cpu"

Since: 2.1

Object: NumaNodeOptions

Create a guest NUMA node. (for OptsVisitor)

Members:

nodeid: int (optional)

NUMA node ID (increase by 1 from 0 if omitted)

cpus: array of int (optional)

VCPUs belonging to this node (assign VCPUS round-robin if omitted)

mem: int (optional)

memory size of this node; mutually exclusive with memdev. Equally divide total memory among nodes if both mem and memdev are omitted.

memdev: string (optional)

memory backend object. If specified for one node, it must be specified for all nodes.

Since: 2.1

Object: NumaDistOptions

Set the distance between 2 NUMA nodes.

Members:

src: int

source NUMA node.

dst: int

destination NUMA node.

val: int

NUMA distance from source node to destination node. When a node is unreachable from another node, set the distance between them to 255.

Since: 2.10

Enum: X86CPURegister32

A X86 32-bit register

Values:

EAX

Not documented

EBX

Not documented

ECX

Not documented

EDX

Not documented

ESP

Not documented

EBP

Not documented

ESI

Not documented

EDI

Not documented

Since: 1.5

Object: X86CPUFeatureWordInfo

Information about a X86 CPU feature word

Members:

cpuid-input-eax: int

Input EAX value for CPUID instruction for that feature word

cpuid-input-ecx: int (optional)

Input ECX value for CPUID instruction for that feature word

cpuid-register: X86CPURegister32

Output register containing the feature bits

features: int

value of output register, containing the feature bits

Since: 1.5

Object: DummyForceArrays

Not used by QMP; hack to let us use X86CPUFeatureWordInfoList internally

Members:

unused: array of X86CPUFeatureWordInfo

Not documented

Since: 2.5

Object: NumaCpuOptions

Option "-numa cpu" overrides default cpu to node mapping. It accepts the same set of cpu properties as returned by query-hotpluggable-cpus[].props, where node-id could be used to override default node mapping.

Members:

The members of CpuInstanceProperties

Since: 2.10

Enum: HostMemPolicy

Host memory policy types

Values:

default

restore default policy, remove any nondefault policy

preferred

set the preferred host nodes for allocation

bind

a strict policy that restricts memory allocation to the host nodes specified

interleave

memory allocations are interleaved across the set of host nodes specified

Since: 2.1

Object: Memdev

Information about memory backend

Members:

id: string (optional)

backend’s ID if backend has ’id’ property (since 2.9)

size: int

memory backend size

merge: boolean

enables or disables memory merge support

dump: boolean

includes memory backend’s memory in a core dump or not

prealloc: boolean

enables or disables memory preallocation

host-nodes: array of int

host nodes for its memory policy

policy: HostMemPolicy

memory policy of memory backend

Since: 2.1

Command: query-memdev

Returns information for all memory backends.

Returns: a list of Memdev.

Since: 2.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-memdev" }
<- { "return": [
       {
         "id": "mem1",
         "size": 536870912,
         "merge": false,
         "dump": true,
         "prealloc": false,
         "host-nodes": [0, 1],
         "policy": "bind"
       },
       {
         "size": 536870912,
         "merge": false,
         "dump": true,
         "prealloc": true,
         "host-nodes": [2, 3],
         "policy": "preferred"
       }
     ]
   }
Object: CpuInstanceProperties

List of properties to be used for hotplugging a CPU instance, it should be passed by management with device_add command when a CPU is being hotplugged.

Members:

node-id: int (optional)

NUMA node ID the CPU belongs to

socket-id: int (optional)

socket number within node/board the CPU belongs to

die-id: int (optional)

die number within node/board the CPU belongs to (Since 4.1)

core-id: int (optional)

core number within die the CPU belongs to# thread-id: thread number within core the CPU belongs to

thread-id: int (optional)

Not documented

Note: currently there are 5 properties that could be present but management should be prepared to pass through other properties with device_add command to allow for future interface extension. This also requires the filed names to be kept in sync with the properties passed to -device/device_add.

Since: 2.7

Object: HotpluggableCPU

Members:

type: string

CPU object type for usage with device_add command

props: CpuInstanceProperties

list of properties to be used for hotplugging CPU

vcpus-count: int

number of logical VCPU threads HotpluggableCPU provides

qom-path: string (optional)

link to existing CPU object if CPU is present or omitted if CPU is not present.

Since: 2.7

Command: query-hotpluggable-cpus

TODO: Better documentation; currently there is none.

Returns: a list of HotpluggableCPU objects.

Since: 2.7

Example:

For pseries machine type started with -smp 2,cores=2,maxcpus=4 -cpu POWER8:

-> { "execute": "query-hotpluggable-cpus" }
<- {"return": [
     { "props": { "core": 8 }, "type": "POWER8-spapr-cpu-core",
       "vcpus-count": 1 },
     { "props": { "core": 0 }, "type": "POWER8-spapr-cpu-core",
       "vcpus-count": 1, "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]"}
   ]}'

For pc machine type started with -smp 1,maxcpus=2:

-> { "execute": "query-hotpluggable-cpus" }
<- {"return": [
     {
        "type": "qemu64-x86_64-cpu", "vcpus-count": 1,
        "props": {"core-id": 0, "socket-id": 1, "thread-id": 0}
     },
     {
        "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]",
        "type": "qemu64-x86_64-cpu", "vcpus-count": 1,
        "props": {"core-id": 0, "socket-id": 0, "thread-id": 0}
     }
   ]}

For s390x-virtio-ccw machine type started with -smp 1,maxcpus=2 -cpu qemu
(Since: 2.11):

-> { "execute": "query-hotpluggable-cpus" }
<- {"return": [
     {
        "type": "qemu-s390x-cpu", "vcpus-count": 1,
        "props": { "core-id": 1 }
     },
     {
        "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[0]",
        "type": "qemu-s390x-cpu", "vcpus-count": 1,
        "props": { "core-id": 0 }
     }
   ]}
Command: set-numa-node

Runtime equivalent of ’-numa’ CLI option, available at preconfigure stage to configure numa mapping before initializing machine.

Since 3.0

Arguments: the members of NumaOptions

Object: CpuModelInfo

Virtual CPU model.

A CPU model consists of the name of a CPU definition, to which delta changes are applied (e.g. features added/removed). Most magic values that an architecture might require should be hidden behind the name. However, if required, architectures can expose relevant properties.

Members:

name: string

the name of the CPU definition the model is based on

props: value (optional)

a dictionary of QOM properties to be applied

Since: 2.8.0

Enum: CpuModelExpansionType

An enumeration of CPU model expansion types.

Values:

static

Expand to a static CPU model, a combination of a static base model name and property delta changes. As the static base model will never change, the expanded CPU model will be the same, independent of QEMU version, machine type, machine options, and accelerator options. Therefore, the resulting model can be used by tooling without having to specify a compatibility machine - e.g. when displaying the "host" model. The static CPU models are migration-safe.

full

Expand all properties. The produced model is not guaranteed to be migration-safe, but allows tooling to get an insight and work with model details.

Note: When a non-migration-safe CPU model is expanded in static mode, some features enabled by the CPU model may be omitted, because they can’t be implemented by a static CPU model definition (e.g. cache info passthrough and PMU passthrough in x86). If you need an accurate representation of the features enabled by a non-migration-safe CPU model, use full. If you need a static representation that will keep ABI compatibility even when changing QEMU version or machine-type, use static (but keep in mind that some features may be omitted).

Since: 2.8.0

Enum: CpuModelCompareResult

An enumeration of CPU model comparison results. The result is usually calculated using e.g. CPU features or CPU generations.

Values:

incompatible

If model A is incompatible to model B, model A is not guaranteed to run where model B runs and the other way around.

identical

If model A is identical to model B, model A is guaranteed to run where model B runs and the other way around.

superset

If model A is a superset of model B, model B is guaranteed to run where model A runs. There are no guarantees about the other way.

subset

If model A is a subset of model B, model A is guaranteed to run where model B runs. There are no guarantees about the other way.

Since: 2.8.0

Object: CpuModelBaselineInfo

The result of a CPU model baseline.

Members:

model: CpuModelInfo

the baselined CpuModelInfo.

Since: 2.8.0

If: defined(TARGET_S390X)

Object: CpuModelCompareInfo

The result of a CPU model comparison.

Members:

result: CpuModelCompareResult

The result of the compare operation.

responsible-properties: array of string

List of properties that led to the comparison result not being identical.

responsible-properties is a list of QOM property names that led to both CPUs not being detected as identical. For identical models, this list is empty. If a QOM property is read-only, that means there’s no known way to make the CPU models identical. If the special property name "type" is included, the models are by definition not identical and cannot be made identical.

Since: 2.8.0

If: defined(TARGET_S390X)

Command: query-cpu-model-comparison

Compares two CPU models, returning how they compare in a specific configuration. The results indicates how both models compare regarding runnability. This result can be used by tooling to make decisions if a certain CPU model will run in a certain configuration or if a compatible CPU model has to be created by baselining.

Usually, a CPU model is compared against the maximum possible CPU model of a certain configuration (e.g. the "host" model for KVM). If that CPU model is identical or a subset, it will run in that configuration.

The result returned by this command may be affected by:

Some architectures may not support comparing CPU models. s390x supports comparing CPU models.

Arguments:

modela: CpuModelInfo

Not documented

modelb: CpuModelInfo

Not documented

Returns: a CpuModelBaselineInfo. Returns an error if comparing CPU models is not supported, if a model cannot be used, if a model contains an unknown cpu definition name, unknown properties or properties with wrong types.

Note: this command isn’t specific to s390x, but is only implemented on this architecture currently.

Since: 2.8.0

If: defined(TARGET_S390X)

Command: query-cpu-model-baseline

Baseline two CPU models, creating a compatible third model. The created model will always be a static, migration-safe CPU model (see "static" CPU model expansion for details).

This interface can be used by tooling to create a compatible CPU model out two CPU models. The created CPU model will be identical to or a subset of both CPU models when comparing them. Therefore, the created CPU model is guaranteed to run where the given CPU models run.

The result returned by this command may be affected by:

Some architectures may not support baselining CPU models. s390x supports baselining CPU models.

Arguments:

modela: CpuModelInfo

Not documented

modelb: CpuModelInfo

Not documented

Returns: a CpuModelBaselineInfo. Returns an error if baselining CPU models is not supported, if a model cannot be used, if a model contains an unknown cpu definition name, unknown properties or properties with wrong types.

Note: this command isn’t specific to s390x, but is only implemented on this architecture currently.

Since: 2.8.0

If: defined(TARGET_S390X)

Object: CpuModelExpansionInfo

The result of a cpu model expansion.

Members:

model: CpuModelInfo

the expanded CpuModelInfo.

Since: 2.8.0

If: defined(TARGET_S390X) || defined(TARGET_I386)

Command: query-cpu-model-expansion

Expands a given CPU model (or a combination of CPU model + additional options) to different granularities, allowing tooling to get an understanding what a specific CPU model looks like in QEMU under a certain configuration.

This interface can be used to query the "host" CPU model.

The data returned by this command may be affected by:

Some architectures may not support all expansion types. s390x supports "full" and "static".

Arguments:

type: CpuModelExpansionType

Not documented

model: CpuModelInfo

Not documented

Returns: a CpuModelExpansionInfo. Returns an error if expanding CPU models is not supported, if the model cannot be expanded, if the model contains an unknown CPU definition name, unknown properties or properties with a wrong type. Also returns an error if an expansion type is not supported.

Since: 2.8.0

If: defined(TARGET_S390X) || defined(TARGET_I386)

Object: CpuDefinitionInfo

Virtual CPU definition.

Members:

name: string

the name of the CPU definition

migration-safe: boolean (optional)

whether a CPU definition can be safely used for migration in combination with a QEMU compatibility machine when migrating between different QEMU versions and between hosts with different sets of (hardware or software) capabilities. If not provided, information is not available and callers should not assume the CPU definition to be migration-safe. (since 2.8)

static: boolean

whether a CPU definition is static and will not change depending on QEMU version, machine type, machine options and accelerator options. A static model is always migration-safe. (since 2.8)

unavailable-features: array of string (optional)

List of properties that prevent the CPU model from running in the current host. (since 2.8)

typename: string

Type name that can be used as argument to device-list-properties, to introspect properties configurable using -cpu or -global. (since 2.9)

alias-of: string (optional)

Name of CPU model this model is an alias for. The target of the CPU model alias may change depending on the machine type. Management software is supposed to translate CPU model aliases in the VM configuration, because aliases may stop being migration-safe in the future (since 4.1)

unavailable-features is a list of QOM property names that represent CPU model attributes that prevent the CPU from running. If the QOM property is read-only, that means there’s no known way to make the CPU model run in the current host. Implementations that choose not to provide specific information return the property name "type". If the property is read-write, it means that it MAY be possible to run the CPU model in the current host if that property is changed. Management software can use it as hints to suggest or choose an alternative for the user, or just to generate meaningful error messages explaining why the CPU model can’t be used. If unavailable-features is an empty list, the CPU model is runnable using the current host and machine-type. If unavailable-features is not present, runnability information for the CPU is not available.

Since: 1.2.0

If: defined(TARGET_PPC) || defined(TARGET_ARM) || defined(TARGET_I386) || defined(TARGET_S390X) || defined(TARGET_MIPS)

Command: query-cpu-definitions

Return a list of supported virtual CPU definitions

Returns: a list of CpuDefInfo

Since: 1.2.0

If: defined(TARGET_PPC) || defined(TARGET_ARM) || defined(TARGET_I386) || defined(TARGET_S390X) || defined(TARGET_MIPS)

1.23 Miscellanea

Command: qmp_capabilities

Enable QMP capabilities.

Arguments:

Arguments:

enable: array of QMPCapability (optional)

An optional list of QMPCapability values to enable. The client must not enable any capability that is not mentioned in the QMP greeting message. If the field is not provided, it means no QMP capabilities will be enabled. (since 2.12)

Example:

-> { "execute": "qmp_capabilities",
     "arguments": { "enable": [ "oob" ] } }
<- { "return": {} }

Notes: This command is valid exactly when first connecting: it must be issued before any other command will be accepted, and will fail once the monitor is accepting other commands. (see qemu docs/interop/qmp-spec.txt)

The QMP client needs to explicitly enable QMP capabilities, otherwise all the QMP capabilities will be turned off by default.

Since: 0.13

Enum: QMPCapability

Enumeration of capabilities to be advertised during initial client connection, used for agreeing on particular QMP extension behaviors.

Values:

oob

QMP ability to support out-of-band requests. (Please refer to qmp-spec.txt for more information on OOB)

Since: 2.12

Object: VersionTriple

A three-part version number.

Members:

major: int

The major version number.

minor: int

The minor version number.

micro: int

The micro version number.

Since: 2.4

Object: VersionInfo

A description of QEMU’s version.

Members:

qemu: VersionTriple

The version of QEMU. By current convention, a micro version of 50 signifies a development branch. A micro version greater than or equal to 90 signifies a release candidate for the next minor version. A micro version of less than 50 signifies a stable release.

package: string

QEMU will always set this field to an empty string. Downstream versions of QEMU should set this to a non-empty string. The exact format depends on the downstream however it highly recommended that a unique name is used.

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-version

Returns the current version of QEMU.

Returns: A VersionInfo object describing the current version of QEMU.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-version" }
<- {
      "return":{
         "qemu":{
            "major":0,
            "minor":11,
            "micro":5
         },
         "package":""
      }
   }
Object: CommandInfo

Information about a QMP command

Members:

name: string

The command name

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-commands

Return a list of supported QMP commands by this server

Returns: A list of CommandInfo for all supported commands

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-commands" }
<- {
     "return":[
        {
           "name":"query-balloon"
        },
        {
           "name":"system_powerdown"
        }
     ]
   }

Note: This example has been shortened as the real response is too long.

Enum: LostTickPolicy

Policy for handling lost ticks in timer devices.

Values:

discard

throw away the missed tick(s) and continue with future injection normally. Guest time may be delayed, unless the OS has explicit handling of lost ticks

delay

continue to deliver ticks at the normal rate. Guest time will be delayed due to the late tick

slew

deliver ticks at a higher rate to catch up with the missed tick. The guest time should not be delayed once catchup is complete.

Since: 2.0

Command: add_client

Allow client connections for VNC, Spice and socket based character devices to be passed in to QEMU via SCM_RIGHTS.

Arguments:

protocol: string

protocol name. Valid names are "vnc", "spice" or the name of a character device (eg. from -chardev id=XXXX)

fdname: string

file descriptor name previously passed via ’getfd’ command

skipauth: boolean (optional)

whether to skip authentication. Only applies to "vnc" and "spice" protocols

tls: boolean (optional)

whether to perform TLS. Only applies to the "spice" protocol

Returns: nothing on success.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "add_client", "arguments": { "protocol": "vnc",
                                             "fdname": "myclient" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: NameInfo

Guest name information.

Members:

name: string (optional)

The name of the guest

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-name

Return the name information of a guest.

Returns: NameInfo of the guest

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-name" }
<- { "return": { "name": "qemu-name" } }
Object: KvmInfo

Information about support for KVM acceleration

Members:

enabled: boolean

true if KVM acceleration is active

present: boolean

true if KVM acceleration is built into this executable

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-kvm

Returns information about KVM acceleration

Returns: KvmInfo

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-kvm" }
<- { "return": { "enabled": true, "present": true } }
Object: UuidInfo

Guest UUID information (Universally Unique Identifier).

Members:

UUID: string

the UUID of the guest

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: If no UUID was specified for the guest, a null UUID is returned.

Command: query-uuid

Query the guest UUID information.

Returns: The UuidInfo for the guest

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-uuid" }
<- { "return": { "UUID": "550e8400-e29b-41d4-a716-446655440000" } }
Object: EventInfo

Information about a QMP event

Members:

name: string

The event name

Since: 1.2.0

Command: query-events

Return information on QMP events.

Returns: A list of EventInfo.

Since: 1.2.0

Note: This command is deprecated, because its output doesn’t reflect compile-time configuration. Use query-qmp-schema instead.

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-events" }
<- {
     "return": [
         {
            "name":"SHUTDOWN"
         },
         {
            "name":"RESET"
         }
      ]
   }

Note: This example has been shortened as the real response is too long.

Object: IOThreadInfo

Information about an iothread

Members:

id: string

the identifier of the iothread

thread-id: int

ID of the underlying host thread

poll-max-ns: int

maximum polling time in ns, 0 means polling is disabled (since 2.9)

poll-grow: int

how many ns will be added to polling time, 0 means that it’s not configured (since 2.9)

poll-shrink: int

how many ns will be removed from polling time, 0 means that it’s not configured (since 2.9)

Since: 2.0

Command: query-iothreads

Returns a list of information about each iothread.

Note: this list excludes the QEMU main loop thread, which is not declared using the -object iothread command-line option. It is always the main thread of the process.

Returns: a list of IOThreadInfo for each iothread

Since: 2.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-iothreads" }
<- { "return": [
         {
            "id":"iothread0",
            "thread-id":3134
         },
         {
            "id":"iothread1",
            "thread-id":3135
         }
      ]
   }
Object: BalloonInfo

Information about the guest balloon device.

Members:

actual: int

the number of bytes the balloon currently contains

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-balloon

Return information about the balloon device.

Returns: BalloonInfo on success

If the balloon driver is enabled but not functional because the KVM kernel module cannot support it, KvmMissingCap

If no balloon device is present, DeviceNotActive

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-balloon" }
<- { "return": {
         "actual": 1073741824,
      }
   }
Event: BALLOON_CHANGE

Emitted when the guest changes the actual BALLOON level. This value is equivalent to the actual field return by the ’query-balloon’ command

Arguments:

actual: int

actual level of the guest memory balloon in bytes

Note: this event is rate-limited.

Since: 1.2

Example:

<- { "event": "BALLOON_CHANGE",
     "data": { "actual": 944766976 },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267020223, "microseconds": 435656 } }
Object: PciMemoryRange

A PCI device memory region

Members:

base: int

the starting address (guest physical)

limit: int

the ending address (guest physical)

Since: 0.14.0

Object: PciMemoryRegion

Information about a PCI device I/O region.

Members:

bar: int

the index of the Base Address Register for this region

type: string

’io’ if the region is a PIO region ’memory’ if the region is a MMIO region

size: int

memory size

prefetch: boolean (optional)

if type is ’memory’, true if the memory is prefetchable

mem_type_64: boolean (optional)

if type is ’memory’, true if the BAR is 64-bit

address: int

Not documented

Since: 0.14.0

Object: PciBusInfo

Information about a bus of a PCI Bridge device

Members:

number: int

primary bus interface number. This should be the number of the bus the device resides on.

secondary: int

secondary bus interface number. This is the number of the main bus for the bridge

subordinate: int

This is the highest number bus that resides below the bridge.

io_range: PciMemoryRange

The PIO range for all devices on this bridge

memory_range: PciMemoryRange

The MMIO range for all devices on this bridge

prefetchable_range: PciMemoryRange

The range of prefetchable MMIO for all devices on this bridge

Since: 2.4

Object: PciBridgeInfo

Information about a PCI Bridge device

Members:

bus: PciBusInfo

information about the bus the device resides on

devices: array of PciDeviceInfo (optional)

a list of PciDeviceInfo for each device on this bridge

Since: 0.14.0

Object: PciDeviceClass

Information about the Class of a PCI device

Members:

desc: string (optional)

a string description of the device’s class

class: int

the class code of the device

Since: 2.4

Object: PciDeviceId

Information about the Id of a PCI device

Members:

device: int

the PCI device id

vendor: int

the PCI vendor id

subsystem: int (optional)

the PCI subsystem id (since 3.1)

subsystem-vendor: int (optional)

the PCI subsystem vendor id (since 3.1)

Since: 2.4

Object: PciDeviceInfo

Information about a PCI device

Members:

bus: int

the bus number of the device

slot: int

the slot the device is located in

function: int

the function of the slot used by the device

class_info: PciDeviceClass

the class of the device

id: PciDeviceId

the PCI device id

irq: int (optional)

if an IRQ is assigned to the device, the IRQ number

qdev_id: string

the device name of the PCI device

pci_bridge: PciBridgeInfo (optional)

if the device is a PCI bridge, the bridge information

regions: array of PciMemoryRegion

a list of the PCI I/O regions associated with the device

Notes: the contents of class_info.desc are not stable and should only be treated as informational.

Since: 0.14.0

Object: PciInfo

Information about a PCI bus

Members:

bus: int

the bus index

devices: array of PciDeviceInfo

a list of devices on this bus

Since: 0.14.0

Command: query-pci

Return information about the PCI bus topology of the guest.

Returns: a list of PciInfo for each PCI bus. Each bus is represented by a json-object, which has a key with a json-array of all PCI devices attached to it. Each device is represented by a json-object.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-pci" }
<- { "return": [
         {
            "bus": 0,
            "devices": [
               {
                  "bus": 0,
                  "qdev_id": "",
                  "slot": 0,
                  "class_info": {
                     "class": 1536,
                     "desc": "Host bridge"
                  },
                  "id": {
                     "device": 32902,
                     "vendor": 4663
                  },
                  "function": 0,
                  "regions": [
                  ]
               },
               {
                  "bus": 0,
                  "qdev_id": "",
                  "slot": 1,
                  "class_info": {
                     "class": 1537,
                     "desc": "ISA bridge"
                  },
                  "id": {
                     "device": 32902,
                     "vendor": 28672
                  },
                  "function": 0,
                  "regions": [
                  ]
               },
               {
                  "bus": 0,
                  "qdev_id": "",
                  "slot": 1,
                  "class_info": {
                     "class": 257,
                     "desc": "IDE controller"
                  },
                  "id": {
                     "device": 32902,
                     "vendor": 28688
                  },
                  "function": 1,
                  "regions": [
                     {
                        "bar": 4,
                        "size": 16,
                        "address": 49152,
                        "type": "io"
                     }
                  ]
               },
               {
                  "bus": 0,
                  "qdev_id": "",
                  "slot": 2,
                  "class_info": {
                     "class": 768,
                     "desc": "VGA controller"
                  },
                  "id": {
                     "device": 4115,
                     "vendor": 184
                  },
                  "function": 0,
                  "regions": [
                     {
                        "prefetch": true,
                        "mem_type_64": false,
                        "bar": 0,
                        "size": 33554432,
                        "address": 4026531840,
                        "type": "memory"
                     },
                     {
                        "prefetch": false,
                        "mem_type_64": false,
                        "bar": 1,
                        "size": 4096,
                        "address": 4060086272,
                        "type": "memory"
                     },
                     {
                        "prefetch": false,
                        "mem_type_64": false,
                        "bar": 6,
                        "size": 65536,
                        "address": -1,
                        "type": "memory"
                     }
                  ]
               },
               {
                  "bus": 0,
                  "qdev_id": "",
                  "irq": 11,
                  "slot": 4,
                  "class_info": {
                     "class": 1280,
                     "desc": "RAM controller"
                  },
                  "id": {
                     "device": 6900,
                     "vendor": 4098
                  },
                  "function": 0,
                  "regions": [
                     {
                        "bar": 0,
                        "size": 32,
                        "address": 49280,
                        "type": "io"
                     }
                  ]
               }
            ]
         }
      ]
   }

Note: This example has been shortened as the real response is too long.

Command: quit

This command will cause the QEMU process to exit gracefully. While every attempt is made to send the QMP response before terminating, this is not guaranteed. When using this interface, a premature EOF would not be unexpected.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "quit" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: stop

Stop all guest VCPU execution.

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: This function will succeed even if the guest is already in the stopped state. In "inmigrate" state, it will ensure that the guest remains paused once migration finishes, as if the -S option was passed on the command line.

Example:

-> { "execute": "stop" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: system_reset

Performs a hard reset of a guest.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "system_reset" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: system_powerdown

Requests that a guest perform a powerdown operation.

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: A guest may or may not respond to this command. This command returning does not indicate that a guest has accepted the request or that it has shut down. Many guests will respond to this command by prompting the user in some way.

Example:

-> { "execute": "system_powerdown" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: memsave

Save a portion of guest memory to a file.

Arguments:

val: int

the virtual address of the guest to start from

size: int

the size of memory region to save

filename: string

the file to save the memory to as binary data

cpu-index: int (optional)

the index of the virtual CPU to use for translating the virtual address (defaults to CPU 0)

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: Errors were not reliably returned until 1.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "memsave",
     "arguments": { "val": 10,
                    "size": 100,
                    "filename": "/tmp/virtual-mem-dump" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: pmemsave

Save a portion of guest physical memory to a file.

Arguments:

val: int

the physical address of the guest to start from

size: int

the size of memory region to save

filename: string

the file to save the memory to as binary data

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: Errors were not reliably returned until 1.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "pmemsave",
     "arguments": { "val": 10,
                    "size": 100,
                    "filename": "/tmp/physical-mem-dump" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: cont

Resume guest VCPU execution.

Since: 0.14.0

Returns: If successful, nothing

Notes: This command will succeed if the guest is currently running. It will also succeed if the guest is in the "inmigrate" state; in this case, the effect of the command is to make sure the guest starts once migration finishes, removing the effect of the -S command line option if it was passed.

Example:

-> { "execute": "cont" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: x-exit-preconfig

Exit from "preconfig" state

This command makes QEMU exit the preconfig state and proceed with VM initialization using configuration data provided on the command line and via the QMP monitor during the preconfig state. The command is only available during the preconfig state (i.e. when the –preconfig command line option was in use).

Since 3.0

Returns: nothing

Example:

-> { "execute": "x-exit-preconfig" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: system_wakeup

Wake up guest from suspend. If the guest has wake-up from suspend support enabled (wakeup-suspend-support flag from query-current-machine), wake-up guest from suspend if the guest is in SUSPENDED state. Return an error otherwise.

Since: 1.1

Returns: nothing.

Note: prior to 4.0, this command does nothing in case the guest isn’t suspended.

Example:

-> { "execute": "system_wakeup" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: inject-nmi

Injects a Non-Maskable Interrupt into the default CPU (x86/s390) or all CPUs (ppc64). The command fails when the guest doesn’t support injecting.

Returns: If successful, nothing

Since: 0.14.0

Note: prior to 2.1, this command was only supported for x86 and s390 VMs

Example:

-> { "execute": "inject-nmi" }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: balloon

Request the balloon driver to change its balloon size.

Arguments:

value: int

the target size of the balloon in bytes

Returns: Nothing on success If the balloon driver is enabled but not functional because the KVM kernel module cannot support it, KvmMissingCap If no balloon device is present, DeviceNotActive

Notes: This command just issues a request to the guest. When it returns, the balloon size may not have changed. A guest can change the balloon size independent of this command.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "balloon", "arguments": { "value": 536870912 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: human-monitor-command

Execute a command on the human monitor and return the output.

Arguments:

command-line: string

the command to execute in the human monitor

cpu-index: int (optional)

The CPU to use for commands that require an implicit CPU

Returns: the output of the command as a string

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: This command only exists as a stop-gap. Its use is highly discouraged. The semantics of this command are not guaranteed: this means that command names, arguments and responses can change or be removed at ANY time. Applications that rely on long term stability guarantees should NOT use this command.

Known limitations:

Example:

-> { "execute": "human-monitor-command",
     "arguments": { "command-line": "info kvm" } }
<- { "return": "kvm support: enabled\r\n" }
Command: change

This command is multiple commands multiplexed together.

Arguments:

device: string

This is normally the name of a block device but it may also be ’vnc’. when it’s ’vnc’, then sub command depends on target

target: string

If device is a block device, then this is the new filename. If device is ’vnc’, then if the value ’password’ selects the vnc change password command. Otherwise, this specifies a new server URI address to listen to for VNC connections.

arg: string (optional)

If device is a block device, then this is an optional format to open the device with. If device is ’vnc’ and target is ’password’, this is the new VNC password to set. See change-vnc-password for additional notes.

Returns: Nothing on success. If device is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound

Notes: This interface is deprecated, and it is strongly recommended that you avoid using it. For changing block devices, use blockdev-change-medium; for changing VNC parameters, use change-vnc-password.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

1. Change a removable medium

-> { "execute": "change",
     "arguments": { "device": "ide1-cd0",
                    "target": "/srv/images/Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso" } }
<- { "return": {} }

2. Change VNC password

-> { "execute": "change",
     "arguments": { "device": "vnc", "target": "password",
                    "arg": "foobar1" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: xen-set-global-dirty-log

Enable or disable the global dirty log mode.

Arguments:

enable: boolean

true to enable, false to disable.

Returns: nothing

Since: 1.3

Example:

-> { "execute": "xen-set-global-dirty-log",
     "arguments": { "enable": true } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: getfd

Receive a file descriptor via SCM rights and assign it a name

Arguments:

fdname: string

file descriptor name

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: If fdname already exists, the file descriptor assigned to it will be closed and replaced by the received file descriptor.

The ’closefd’ command can be used to explicitly close the file descriptor when it is no longer needed.

Example:

-> { "execute": "getfd", "arguments": { "fdname": "fd1" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Command: closefd

Close a file descriptor previously passed via SCM rights

Arguments:

fdname: string

file descriptor name

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "closefd", "arguments": { "fdname": "fd1" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: MemoryInfo

Actual memory information in bytes.

Members:

base-memory: int

size of "base" memory specified with command line option -m.

plugged-memory: int (optional)

size of memory that can be hot-unplugged. This field is omitted if target doesn’t support memory hotplug (i.e. CONFIG_MEM_DEVICE not defined at build time).

Since: 2.11.0

Command: query-memory-size-summary

Return the amount of initially allocated and present hotpluggable (if enabled) memory in bytes.

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-memory-size-summary" }
<- { "return": { "base-memory": 4294967296, "plugged-memory": 0 } }

Since: 2.11.0

Object: AddfdInfo

Information about a file descriptor that was added to an fd set.

Members:

fdset-id: int

The ID of the fd set that fd was added to.

fd: int

The file descriptor that was received via SCM rights and added to the fd set.

Since: 1.2.0

Command: add-fd

Add a file descriptor, that was passed via SCM rights, to an fd set.

Arguments:

fdset-id: int (optional)

The ID of the fd set to add the file descriptor to.

opaque: string (optional)

A free-form string that can be used to describe the fd.

Returns: AddfdInfo on success

If file descriptor was not received, FdNotSupplied

If fdset-id is a negative value, InvalidParameterValue

Notes: The list of fd sets is shared by all monitor connections.

If fdset-id is not specified, a new fd set will be created.

Since: 1.2.0

Example:

-> { "execute": "add-fd", "arguments": { "fdset-id": 1 } }
<- { "return": { "fdset-id": 1, "fd": 3 } }
Command: remove-fd

Remove a file descriptor from an fd set.

Arguments:

fdset-id: int

The ID of the fd set that the file descriptor belongs to.

fd: int (optional)

The file descriptor that is to be removed.

Returns: Nothing on success If fdset-id or fd is not found, FdNotFound

Since: 1.2.0

Notes: The list of fd sets is shared by all monitor connections.

If fd is not specified, all file descriptors in fdset-id will be removed.

Example:

-> { "execute": "remove-fd", "arguments": { "fdset-id": 1, "fd": 3 } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: FdsetFdInfo

Information about a file descriptor that belongs to an fd set.

Members:

fd: int

The file descriptor value.

opaque: string (optional)

A free-form string that can be used to describe the fd.

Since: 1.2.0

Object: FdsetInfo

Information about an fd set.

Members:

fdset-id: int

The ID of the fd set.

fds: array of FdsetFdInfo

A list of file descriptors that belong to this fd set.

Since: 1.2.0

Command: query-fdsets

Return information describing all fd sets.

Returns: A list of FdsetInfo

Since: 1.2.0

Note: The list of fd sets is shared by all monitor connections.

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-fdsets" }
<- { "return": [
       {
         "fds": [
           {
             "fd": 30,
             "opaque": "rdonly:/path/to/file"
           },
           {
             "fd": 24,
             "opaque": "rdwr:/path/to/file"
           }
         ],
         "fdset-id": 1
       },
       {
         "fds": [
           {
             "fd": 28
           },
           {
             "fd": 29
           }
         ],
         "fdset-id": 0
       }
     ]
   }
Object: TargetInfo

Information describing the QEMU target.

Members:

arch: SysEmuTarget

the target architecture

Since: 1.2.0

Command: query-target

Return information about the target for this QEMU

Returns: TargetInfo

Since: 1.2.0

Object: AcpiTableOptions

Specify an ACPI table on the command line to load.

At most one of file and data can be specified. The list of files specified by any one of them is loaded and concatenated in order. If both are omitted, data is implied.

Other fields / optargs can be used to override fields of the generic ACPI table header; refer to the ACPI specification 5.0, section 5.2.6 System Description Table Header. If a header field is not overridden, then the corresponding value from the concatenated blob is used (in case of file), or it is filled in with a hard-coded value (in case of data).

String fields are copied into the matching ACPI member from lowest address upwards, and silently truncated / NUL-padded to length.

Members:

sig: string (optional)

table signature / identifier (4 bytes)

rev: int (optional)

table revision number (dependent on signature, 1 byte)

oem_id: string (optional)

OEM identifier (6 bytes)

oem_table_id: string (optional)

OEM table identifier (8 bytes)

oem_rev: int (optional)

OEM-supplied revision number (4 bytes)

asl_compiler_id: string (optional)

identifier of the utility that created the table (4 bytes)

asl_compiler_rev: int (optional)

revision number of the utility that created the table (4 bytes)

file: string (optional)

colon (:) separated list of pathnames to load and concatenate as table data. The resultant binary blob is expected to have an ACPI table header. At least one file is required. This field excludes data.

data: string (optional)

colon (:) separated list of pathnames to load and concatenate as table data. The resultant binary blob must not have an ACPI table header. At least one file is required. This field excludes file.

Since: 1.5

Enum: CommandLineParameterType

Possible types for an option parameter.

Values:

string

accepts a character string

boolean

accepts "on" or "off"

number

accepts a number

size

accepts a number followed by an optional suffix (K)ilo, (M)ega, (G)iga, (T)era

Since: 1.5

Object: CommandLineParameterInfo

Details about a single parameter of a command line option.

Members:

name: string

parameter name

type: CommandLineParameterType

parameter CommandLineParameterType

help: string (optional)

human readable text string, not suitable for parsing.

default: string (optional)

default value string (since 2.1)

Since: 1.5

Object: CommandLineOptionInfo

Details about a command line option, including its list of parameter details

Members:

option: string

option name

parameters: array of CommandLineParameterInfo

an array of CommandLineParameterInfo

Since: 1.5

Command: query-command-line-options

Query command line option schema.

Arguments:

option: string (optional)

option name

Returns: list of CommandLineOptionInfo for all options (or for the given option). Returns an error if the given option doesn’t exist.

Since: 1.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-command-line-options",
     "arguments": { "option": "option-rom" } }
<- { "return": [
        {
            "parameters": [
                {
                    "name": "romfile",
                    "type": "string"
                },
                {
                    "name": "bootindex",
                    "type": "number"
                }
            ],
            "option": "option-rom"
        }
     ]
   }
Object: PCDIMMDeviceInfo

PCDIMMDevice state information

Members:

id: string (optional)

device’s ID

addr: int

physical address, where device is mapped

size: int

size of memory that the device provides

slot: int

slot number at which device is plugged in

node: int

NUMA node number where device is plugged in

memdev: string

memory backend linked with device

hotplugged: boolean

true if device was hotplugged

hotpluggable: boolean

true if device if could be added/removed while machine is running

Since: 2.1

Object: VirtioPMEMDeviceInfo

VirtioPMEM state information

Members:

id: string (optional)

device’s ID

memaddr: int

physical address in memory, where device is mapped

size: int

size of memory that the device provides

memdev: string

memory backend linked with device

Since: 4.1

Object: MemoryDeviceInfo

Union containing information about a memory device

nvdimm is included since 2.12. virtio-pmem is included since 4.1.

Members:

type

One of "dimm", "nvdimm", "virtio-pmem"

data: PCDIMMDeviceInfo when type is "dimm"
data: PCDIMMDeviceInfo when type is "nvdimm"
data: VirtioPMEMDeviceInfo when type is "virtio-pmem"

Since: 2.1

Command: query-memory-devices

Lists available memory devices and their state

Since: 2.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-memory-devices" }
<- { "return": [ { "data":
                      { "addr": 5368709120,
                        "hotpluggable": true,
                        "hotplugged": true,
                        "id": "d1",
                        "memdev": "/objects/memX",
                        "node": 0,
                        "size": 1073741824,
                        "slot": 0},
                   "type": "dimm"
                 } ] }
Event: MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR

Emitted when memory hot unplug error occurs.

Arguments:

device: string

device name

msg: string

Informative message

Since: 2.4

Example:

<- { "event": "MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR"
     "data": { "device": "dimm1",
               "msg": "acpi: device unplug for unsupported device"
     },
     "timestamp": { "seconds": 1265044230, "microseconds": 450486 } }
Enum: ACPISlotType

Values:

DIMM

memory slot

CPU

logical CPU slot (since 2.7)

Object: ACPIOSTInfo

OSPM Status Indication for a device For description of possible values of source and status fields see "_OST (OSPM Status Indication)" chapter of ACPI5.0 spec.

Members:

device: string (optional)

device ID associated with slot

slot: string

slot ID, unique per slot of a given slot-type

slot-type: ACPISlotType

type of the slot

source: int

an integer containing the source event

status: int

an integer containing the status code

Since: 2.1

Command: query-acpi-ospm-status

Return a list of ACPIOSTInfo for devices that support status reporting via ACPI _OST method.

Since: 2.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-acpi-ospm-status" }
<- { "return": [ { "device": "d1", "slot": "0", "slot-type": "DIMM", "source": 1, "status": 0},
                 { "slot": "1", "slot-type": "DIMM", "source": 0, "status": 0},
                 { "slot": "2", "slot-type": "DIMM", "source": 0, "status": 0},
                 { "slot": "3", "slot-type": "DIMM", "source": 0, "status": 0}
   ]}
Event: ACPI_DEVICE_OST

Emitted when guest executes ACPI _OST method.

Arguments:

info: ACPIOSTInfo

OSPM Status Indication

Since: 2.1

Example:

<- { "event": "ACPI_DEVICE_OST",
     "data": { "device": "d1", "slot": "0",
               "slot-type": "DIMM", "source": 1, "status": 0 } }
Enum: ReplayMode

Mode of the replay subsystem.

Values:

none

normal execution mode. Replay or record are not enabled.

record

record mode. All non-deterministic data is written into the replay log.

play

replay mode. Non-deterministic data required for system execution is read from the log.

Since: 2.5

Command: xen-load-devices-state

Load the state of all devices from file. The RAM and the block devices of the VM are not loaded by this command.

Arguments:

filename: string

the file to load the state of the devices from as binary data. See xen-save-devices-state.txt for a description of the binary format.

Since: 2.7

Example:

-> { "execute": "xen-load-devices-state",
     "arguments": { "filename": "/tmp/resume" } }
<- { "return": {} }
Object: GuidInfo

GUID information.

Members:

guid: string

the globally unique identifier

Since: 2.9

Command: query-vm-generation-id

Show Virtual Machine Generation ID

Since: 2.9

Event: RTC_CHANGE

Emitted when the guest changes the RTC time.

Arguments:

offset: int

offset between base RTC clock (as specified by -rtc base), and new RTC clock value

Note: This event is rate-limited.

Since: 0.13.0

Example:

<-   { "event": "RTC_CHANGE",
       "data": { "offset": 78 },
       "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267020223, "microseconds": 435656 } }

If: defined(TARGET_ALPHA) || defined(TARGET_ARM) || defined(TARGET_HPPA) || defined(TARGET_I386) || defined(TARGET_MIPS) || defined(TARGET_MIPS64) || defined(TARGET_MOXIE) || defined(TARGET_PPC) || defined(TARGET_PPC64) || defined(TARGET_S390X) || defined(TARGET_SH4) || defined(TARGET_SPARC)

Command: rtc-reset-reinjection

This command will reset the RTC interrupt reinjection backlog. Can be used if another mechanism to synchronize guest time is in effect, for example QEMU guest agent’s guest-set-time command.

Since: 2.1

Example:

-> { "execute": "rtc-reset-reinjection" }
<- { "return": {} }

If: defined(TARGET_I386)

Enum: SevState

An enumeration of SEV state information used during query-sev.

Values:

uninit

The guest is uninitialized.

launch-update

The guest is currently being launched; plaintext data and register state is being imported.

launch-secret

The guest is currently being launched; ciphertext data is being imported.

running

The guest is fully launched or migrated in.

send-update

The guest is currently being migrated out to another machine.

receive-update

The guest is currently being migrated from another machine.

Since: 2.12

If: defined(TARGET_I386)

Object: SevInfo

Information about Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) support

Members:

enabled: boolean

true if SEV is active

api-major: int

SEV API major version

api-minor: int

SEV API minor version

build-id: int

SEV FW build id

policy: int

SEV policy value

state: SevState

SEV guest state

handle: int

SEV firmware handle

Since: 2.12

If: defined(TARGET_I386)

Command: query-sev

Returns information about SEV

Returns: SevInfo

Since: 2.12

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-sev" }
<- { "return": { "enabled": true, "api-major" : 0, "api-minor" : 0,
                 "build-id" : 0, "policy" : 0, "state" : "running",
                 "handle" : 1 } }

If: defined(TARGET_I386)

Object: SevLaunchMeasureInfo

SEV Guest Launch measurement information

Members:

data: string

the measurement value encoded in base64

Since: 2.12

If: defined(TARGET_I386)

Command: query-sev-launch-measure

Query the SEV guest launch information.

Returns: The SevLaunchMeasureInfo for the guest

Since: 2.12

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-sev-launch-measure" }
<- { "return": { "data": "4l8LXeNlSPUDlXPJG5966/8%YZ" } }

If: defined(TARGET_I386)

Object: SevCapability

The struct describes capability for a Secure Encrypted Virtualization feature.

Members:

pdh: string

Platform Diffie-Hellman key (base64 encoded)

cert-chain: string

PDH certificate chain (base64 encoded)

cbitpos: int

C-bit location in page table entry

reduced-phys-bits: int

Number of physical Address bit reduction when SEV is enabled

Since: 2.12

If: defined(TARGET_I386)

Command: query-sev-capabilities

This command is used to get the SEV capabilities, and is supported on AMD X86 platforms only.

Returns: SevCapability objects.

Since: 2.12

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-sev-capabilities" }
<- { "return": { "pdh": "8CCDD8DDD", "cert-chain": "888CCCDDDEE",
                 "cbitpos": 47, "reduced-phys-bits": 5}}

If: defined(TARGET_I386)

Command: dump-skeys

Dump guest’s storage keys

Arguments:

filename: string

the path to the file to dump to

This command is only supported on s390 architecture.

Since: 2.5

Example:

-> { "execute": "dump-skeys",
     "arguments": { "filename": "/tmp/skeys" } }
<- { "return": {} }

If: defined(TARGET_S390X)

Object: GICCapability

The struct describes capability for a specific GIC (Generic Interrupt Controller) version. These bits are not only decided by QEMU/KVM software version, but also decided by the hardware that the program is running upon.

Members:

version: int

version of GIC to be described. Currently, only 2 and 3 are supported.

emulated: boolean

whether current QEMU/hardware supports emulated GIC device in user space.

kernel: boolean

whether current QEMU/hardware supports hardware accelerated GIC device in kernel.

Since: 2.6

If: defined(TARGET_ARM)

Command: query-gic-capabilities

This command is ARM-only. It will return a list of GICCapability objects that describe its capability bits.

Returns: a list of GICCapability objects.

Since: 2.6

Example:

-> { "execute": "query-gic-capabilities" }
<- { "return": [{ "version": 2, "emulated": true, "kernel": false },
                { "version": 3, "emulated": false, "kernel": true } ] }

If: defined(TARGET_ARM)

Object: AudiodevPerDirectionOptions

General audio backend options that are used for both playback and recording.

Members:

fixed-settings: boolean (optional)

use fixed settings for host input/output. When off, frequency, channels and format must not be specified (default true)

frequency: int (optional)

frequency to use when using fixed settings (default 44100)

channels: int (optional)

number of channels when using fixed settings (default 2)

voices: int (optional)

number of voices to use (default 1)

format: AudioFormat (optional)

sample format to use when using fixed settings (default s16)

buffer-length: int (optional)

the buffer length in microseconds

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevGenericOptions

Generic driver-specific options.

Members:

in: AudiodevPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the capture stream

out: AudiodevPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the playback stream

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevAlsaPerDirectionOptions

Options of the ALSA backend that are used for both playback and recording.

Members:

dev: string (optional)

the name of the ALSA device to use (default ’default’)

period-length: int (optional)

the period length in microseconds

try-poll: boolean (optional)

attempt to use poll mode, falling back to non-polling access on failure (default true)

The members of AudiodevPerDirectionOptions

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevAlsaOptions

Options of the ALSA audio backend.

Members:

in: AudiodevAlsaPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the capture stream

out: AudiodevAlsaPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the playback stream

threshold: int (optional)

set the threshold (in microseconds) when playback starts

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevCoreaudioPerDirectionOptions

Options of the Core Audio backend that are used for both playback and recording.

Members:

buffer-count: int (optional)

number of buffers

The members of AudiodevPerDirectionOptions

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevCoreaudioOptions

Options of the coreaudio audio backend.

Members:

in: AudiodevCoreaudioPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the capture stream

out: AudiodevCoreaudioPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the playback stream

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevDsoundOptions

Options of the DirectSound audio backend.

Members:

in: AudiodevPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the capture stream

out: AudiodevPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the playback stream

latency: int (optional)

add extra latency to playback in microseconds (default 10000)

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevOssPerDirectionOptions

Options of the OSS backend that are used for both playback and recording.

Members:

dev: string (optional)

file name of the OSS device (default ’/dev/dsp’)

buffer-count: int (optional)

number of buffers

try-poll: boolean (optional)

attempt to use poll mode, falling back to non-polling access on failure (default true)

The members of AudiodevPerDirectionOptions

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevOssOptions

Options of the OSS audio backend.

Members:

in: AudiodevOssPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the capture stream

out: AudiodevOssPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the playback stream

try-mmap: boolean (optional)

try using memory-mapped access, falling back to non-memory-mapped access on failure (default true)

exclusive: boolean (optional)

open device in exclusive mode (vmix won’t work) (default false)

dsp-policy: int (optional)

set the timing policy of the device (between 0 and 10, where smaller number means smaller latency but higher CPU usage) or -1 to use fragment mode (option ignored on some platforms) (default 5)

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevPaPerDirectionOptions

Options of the Pulseaudio backend that are used for both playback and recording.

Members:

name: string (optional)

name of the sink/source to use

latency: int (optional)

latency you want PulseAudio to achieve in microseconds (default 15000)

The members of AudiodevPerDirectionOptions

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevPaOptions

Options of the PulseAudio audio backend.

Members:

in: AudiodevPaPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the capture stream

out: AudiodevPaPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the playback stream

server: string (optional)

PulseAudio server address (default: let PulseAudio choose)

Since: 4.0

Object: AudiodevWavOptions

Options of the wav audio backend.

Members:

in: AudiodevPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the capture stream

out: AudiodevPerDirectionOptions (optional)

options of the playback stream

path: string (optional)

name of the wav file to record (default ’qemu.wav’)

Since: 4.0

Enum: AudioFormat

An enumeration of possible audio formats.

Values:

u8

Not documented

s8

Not documented

u16

Not documented

s16

Not documented

u32

Not documented

s32

Not documented

Since: 4.0

Enum: AudiodevDriver

An enumeration of possible audio backend drivers.

Values:

none

Not documented

alsa

Not documented

coreaudio

Not documented

dsound

Not documented

oss

Not documented

pa

Not documented

sdl

Not documented

spice

Not documented

wav

Not documented

Since: 4.0

Object: Audiodev

Options of an audio backend.

Members:

id: string

identifier of the backend

driver: AudiodevDriver

the backend driver to use

timer-period: int (optional)

timer period (in microseconds, 0: use lowest possible)

The members of AudiodevGenericOptions when driver is "none"
The members of AudiodevAlsaOptions when driver is "alsa"
The members of AudiodevCoreaudioOptions when driver is "coreaudio"
The members of AudiodevDsoundOptions when driver is "dsound"
The members of AudiodevOssOptions when driver is "oss"
The members of AudiodevPaOptions when driver is "pa"
The members of AudiodevGenericOptions when driver is "sdl"
The members of AudiodevGenericOptions when driver is "spice"
The members of AudiodevWavOptions when driver is "wav"

Since: 4.0


Commands and Events Index

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Index Entry  Section

A
ACPI_DEVICE_OST: API Reference
add-fd: API Reference
add_client: API Reference
announce-self: API Reference

B
balloon: API Reference
BALLOON_CHANGE: API Reference
block-commit: API Reference
block-dirty-bitmap-add: API Reference
block-dirty-bitmap-clear: API Reference
block-dirty-bitmap-disable: API Reference
block-dirty-bitmap-enable: API Reference
block-dirty-bitmap-merge: API Reference
block-dirty-bitmap-remove: API Reference
block-job-cancel: API Reference
block-job-complete: API Reference
block-job-dismiss: API Reference
block-job-finalize: API Reference
block-job-pause: API Reference
block-job-resume: API Reference
block-job-set-speed: API Reference
block-latency-histogram-set: API Reference
block-set-write-threshold: API Reference
block-stream: API Reference
blockdev-add: API Reference
blockdev-backup: API Reference
blockdev-change-medium: API Reference
blockdev-close-tray: API Reference
blockdev-create: API Reference
blockdev-del: API Reference
blockdev-insert-medium: API Reference
blockdev-mirror: API Reference
blockdev-open-tray: API Reference
blockdev-remove-medium: API Reference
blockdev-snapshot: API Reference
blockdev-snapshot-delete-internal-sync: API Reference
blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync: API Reference
blockdev-snapshot-sync: API Reference
BLOCK_IMAGE_CORRUPTED: API Reference
BLOCK_IO_ERROR: API Reference
BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED: API Reference
BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED: API Reference
BLOCK_JOB_ERROR: API Reference
BLOCK_JOB_PENDING: API Reference
BLOCK_JOB_READY: API Reference
block_passwd: API Reference
block_resize: API Reference
block_set_io_throttle: API Reference
BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD: API Reference

C
change: API Reference
change-backing-file: API Reference
change-vnc-password: API Reference
chardev-add: API Reference
chardev-change: API Reference
chardev-remove: API Reference
chardev-send-break: API Reference
client_migrate_info: API Reference
closefd: API Reference
COLO_EXIT: API Reference
cont: API Reference
cpu-add: API Reference

D
device-list-properties: API Reference
device_add: API Reference
device_del: API Reference
DEVICE_DELETED: API Reference
DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED: API Reference
drive-backup: API Reference
drive-mirror: API Reference
dump-guest-memory: API Reference
dump-skeys: API Reference
DUMP_COMPLETED: API Reference

E
eject: API Reference
expire_password: API Reference

G
getfd: API Reference
GUEST_PANICKED: API Reference

H
human-monitor-command: API Reference

I
inject-nmi: API Reference
input-send-event: API Reference

J
job-cancel: API Reference
job-complete: API Reference
job-dismiss: API Reference
job-finalize: API Reference
job-pause: API Reference
job-resume: API Reference
JOB_STATUS_CHANGE: API Reference

M
memsave: API Reference
MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR: API Reference
migrate: API Reference
migrate-continue: API Reference
migrate-incoming: API Reference
migrate-pause: API Reference
migrate-recover: API Reference
migrate-set-cache-size: API Reference
migrate-set-capabilities: API Reference
migrate-set-parameters: API Reference
migrate-start-postcopy: API Reference
migrate_cancel: API Reference
migrate_set_downtime: API Reference
migrate_set_speed: API Reference
MIGRATION: API Reference
MIGRATION_PASS: API Reference

N
nbd-server-add: API Reference
nbd-server-remove: API Reference
nbd-server-start: API Reference
nbd-server-stop: API Reference
netdev_add: API Reference
netdev_del: API Reference
NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED: API Reference

O
object-add: API Reference
object-del: API Reference

P
pmemsave: API Reference
POWERDOWN: API Reference
PR_MANAGER_STATUS_CHANGED: API Reference

Q
qmp_capabilities: API Reference
qom-get: API Reference
qom-list: API Reference
qom-list-properties: API Reference
qom-list-types: API Reference
qom-set: API Reference
query-acpi-ospm-status: API Reference
query-balloon: API Reference
query-block: API Reference
query-block-jobs: API Reference
query-blockstats: API Reference
query-chardev: API Reference
query-chardev-backends: API Reference
query-colo-status: API Reference
query-command-line-options: API Reference
query-commands: API Reference
query-cpu-definitions: API Reference
query-cpu-model-baseline: API Reference
query-cpu-model-comparison: API Reference
query-cpu-model-expansion: API Reference
query-cpus: API Reference
query-cpus-fast: API Reference
query-current-machine: API Reference
query-display-options: API Reference
query-dump: API Reference
query-dump-guest-memory-capability: API Reference
query-events: API Reference
query-fdsets: API Reference
query-gic-capabilities: API Reference
query-hotpluggable-cpus: API Reference
query-iothreads: API Reference
query-jobs: API Reference
query-kvm: API Reference
query-machines: API Reference
query-memdev: API Reference
query-memory-devices: API Reference
query-memory-size-summary: API Reference
query-mice: API Reference
query-migrate: API Reference
query-migrate-cache-size: API Reference
query-migrate-capabilities: API Reference
query-migrate-parameters: API Reference
query-name: API Reference
query-named-block-nodes: API Reference
query-pci: API Reference
query-pr-managers: API Reference
query-qmp-schema: API Reference
query-rocker: API Reference
query-rocker-of-dpa-flows: API Reference
query-rocker-of-dpa-groups: API Reference
query-rocker-ports: API Reference
query-rx-filter: API Reference
query-sev: API Reference
query-sev-capabilities: API Reference
query-sev-launch-measure: API Reference
query-spice: API Reference
query-status: API Reference
query-target: API Reference
query-tpm: API Reference
query-tpm-models: API Reference
query-tpm-types: API Reference
query-uuid: API Reference
query-version: API Reference
query-vm-generation-id: API Reference
query-vnc: API Reference
query-vnc-servers: API Reference
query-xen-replication-status: API Reference
quit: API Reference
QUORUM_FAILURE: API Reference
QUORUM_REPORT_BAD: API Reference

R
RDMA_GID_STATUS_CHANGED: API Reference
remove-fd: API Reference
RESET: API Reference
RESUME: API Reference
ringbuf-read: API Reference
ringbuf-write: API Reference
rtc-reset-reinjection: API Reference
RTC_CHANGE: API Reference

S
screendump: API Reference
send-key: API Reference
set-numa-node: API Reference
set_link: API Reference
set_password: API Reference
SHUTDOWN: API Reference
SPICE_CONNECTED: API Reference
SPICE_DISCONNECTED: API Reference
SPICE_INITIALIZED: API Reference
SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED: API Reference
STOP: API Reference
stop: API Reference
SUSPEND: API Reference
SUSPEND_DISK: API Reference
system_powerdown: API Reference
system_reset: API Reference
system_wakeup: API Reference

T
trace-event-get-state: API Reference
trace-event-set-state: API Reference
transaction: API Reference

V
VNC_CONNECTED: API Reference
VNC_DISCONNECTED: API Reference
VNC_INITIALIZED: API Reference
VSERPORT_CHANGE: API Reference

W
WAKEUP: API Reference
WATCHDOG: API Reference
watchdog-set-action: API Reference

X
x-blockdev-change: API Reference
x-blockdev-reopen: API Reference
x-blockdev-set-iothread: API Reference
x-colo-lost-heartbeat: API Reference
x-debug-block-dirty-bitmap-sha256: API Reference
x-debug-query-block-graph: API Reference
x-exit-preconfig: API Reference
xen-colo-do-checkpoint: API Reference
xen-load-devices-state: API Reference
xen-save-devices-state: API Reference
xen-set-global-dirty-log: API Reference
xen-set-replication: API Reference

Jump to:   A   B   C   D   E   G   H   I   J   M   N   O   P   Q   R   S   T   V   W   X  

Data Types Index

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Index Entry  Section

A
Abort: API Reference
ACPIOSTInfo: API Reference
ACPISlotType: API Reference
AcpiTableOptions: API Reference
ActionCompletionMode: API Reference
AddfdInfo: API Reference
AnnounceParameters: API Reference
Audiodev: API Reference
AudiodevAlsaOptions: API Reference
AudiodevAlsaPerDirectionOptions: API Reference
AudiodevCoreaudioOptions: API Reference
AudiodevCoreaudioPerDirectionOptions: API Reference
AudiodevDriver: API Reference
AudiodevDsoundOptions: API Reference
AudiodevGenericOptions: API Reference
AudiodevOssOptions: API Reference
AudiodevOssPerDirectionOptions: API Reference
AudiodevPaOptions: API Reference
AudiodevPaPerDirectionOptions: API Reference
AudiodevPerDirectionOptions: API Reference
AudiodevWavOptions: API Reference
AudioFormat: API Reference

B
BalloonInfo: API Reference
BiosAtaTranslation: API Reference
BlkdebugEvent: API Reference
BlkdebugInjectErrorOptions: API Reference
BlkdebugIOType: API Reference
BlkdebugSetStateOptions: API Reference
BlockdevAioOptions: API Reference
BlockdevBackup: API Reference
BlockdevCacheInfo: API Reference
BlockdevCacheOptions: API Reference
BlockdevChangeReadOnlyMode: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptions: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsFile: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsGluster: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsLUKS: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsNfs: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsParallels: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsQcow2: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsQed: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsRbd: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsSheepdog: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsSsh: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsVdi: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsVhdx: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsVmdk: API Reference
BlockdevCreateOptionsVpc: API Reference
BlockdevDetectZeroesOptions: API Reference
BlockdevDiscardOptions: API Reference
BlockdevDriver: API Reference
BlockDeviceInfo: API Reference
BlockDeviceIoStatus: API Reference
BlockDeviceMapEntry: API Reference
BlockDeviceStats: API Reference
BlockDeviceTimedStats: API Reference
BlockdevOnError: API Reference
BlockdevOptions: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsBlkdebug: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsBlklogwrites: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsBlkverify: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsCurlBase: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsCurlFtp: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsCurlFtps: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsCurlHttp: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsCurlHttps: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsFile: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsGluster: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsIscsi: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsLUKS: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsNbd: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsNfs: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsNull: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsNVMe: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsQcow: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsQcow2: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsQuorum: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsRaw: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsRbd: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsReplication: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsSheepdog: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsSsh: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsThrottle: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsVVFAT: API Reference
BlockdevOptionsVxHS: API Reference
BlockdevQcow2Encryption: API Reference
BlockdevQcow2EncryptionFormat: API Reference
BlockdevQcow2Version: API Reference
BlockdevQcowEncryption: API Reference
BlockdevQcowEncryptionFormat: API Reference
BlockdevRef: API Reference
BlockdevRefOrNull: API Reference
BlockdevSnapshot: API Reference
BlockdevSnapshotInternal: API Reference
BlockdevSnapshotSync: API Reference
BlockdevVhdxSubformat: API Reference
BlockdevVmdkAdapterType: API Reference
BlockdevVmdkSubformat: API Reference
BlockdevVpcSubformat: API Reference
BlockDirtyBitmap: API Reference
BlockDirtyBitmapAdd: API Reference
BlockDirtyBitmapMerge: API Reference
BlockDirtyBitmapMergeSource: API Reference
BlockDirtyBitmapSha256: API Reference
BlockDirtyInfo: API Reference
BlockErrorAction: API Reference
BlockInfo: API Reference
BlockIOThrottle: API Reference
BlockJobInfo: API Reference
BlockLatencyHistogramInfo: API Reference
BlockMeasureInfo: API Reference
BlockPermission: API Reference
BlockStats: API Reference

C
ChardevBackend: API Reference
ChardevBackendInfo: API Reference
ChardevCommon: API Reference
ChardevFile: API Reference
ChardevHostdev: API Reference
ChardevInfo: API Reference
ChardevMux: API Reference
ChardevReturn: API Reference
ChardevRingbuf: API Reference
ChardevSocket: API Reference
ChardevSpiceChannel: API Reference
ChardevSpicePort: API Reference
ChardevStdio: API Reference
ChardevUdp: API Reference
ChardevVC: API Reference
COLOExitReason: API Reference
COLOMessage: API Reference
COLOMode: API Reference
COLOStatus: API Reference
CommandInfo: API Reference
CommandLineOptionInfo: API Reference
CommandLineParameterInfo: API Reference
CommandLineParameterType: API Reference
CompressionStats: API Reference
CpuDefinitionInfo: API Reference
CpuInfo: API Reference
CpuInfoArch: API Reference
CpuInfoFast: API Reference
CpuInfoMIPS: API Reference
CpuInfoPPC: API Reference
CpuInfoRISCV: API Reference
CpuInfoS390: API Reference
CpuInfoSPARC: API Reference
CpuInfoTricore: API Reference
CpuInfoX86: API Reference
CpuInstanceProperties: API Reference
CpuModelBaselineInfo: API Reference
CpuModelCompareInfo: API Reference
CpuModelCompareResult: API Reference
CpuModelExpansionInfo: API Reference
CpuModelExpansionType: API Reference
CpuModelInfo: API Reference
CpuS390State: API Reference
CurrentMachineParams: API Reference

D
DataFormat: API Reference
DirtyBitmapStatus: API Reference
DisplayCurses: API Reference
DisplayEGLHeadless: API Reference
DisplayGLMode: API Reference
DisplayGTK: API Reference
DisplayOptions: API Reference
DisplayType: API Reference
DriveBackup: API Reference
DriveMirror: API Reference
DummyForceArrays: API Reference
DumpGuestMemoryCapability: API Reference
DumpGuestMemoryFormat: API Reference
DumpQueryResult: API Reference
DumpStatus: API Reference

E
EventInfo: API Reference

F
FailoverStatus: API Reference
FdsetFdInfo: API Reference
FdsetInfo: API Reference
FloppyDriveType: API Reference

G
GICCapability: API Reference
GrabToggleKeys: API Reference
GuestPanicAction: API Reference
GuestPanicInformation: API Reference
GuestPanicInformationHyperV: API Reference
GuestPanicInformationS390: API Reference
GuestPanicInformationType: API Reference
GuidInfo: API Reference

H
HostMemPolicy: API Reference
HotpluggableCPU: API Reference

I
ImageCheck: API Reference
ImageInfo: API Reference
ImageInfoSpecific: API Reference
ImageInfoSpecificQCow2: API Reference
ImageInfoSpecificQCow2Encryption: API Reference
ImageInfoSpecificQCow2EncryptionBase: API Reference
ImageInfoSpecificVmdk: API Reference
InetSocketAddress: API Reference
InetSocketAddressBase: API Reference
InputAxis: API Reference
InputBtnEvent: API Reference
InputButton: API Reference
InputEvent: API Reference
InputKeyEvent: API Reference
InputMoveEvent: API Reference
IoOperationType: API Reference
IOThreadInfo: API Reference
IscsiHeaderDigest: API Reference
IscsiTransport: API Reference

J
JobInfo: API Reference
JobStatus: API Reference
JobType: API Reference
JobVerb: API Reference
JSONType: API Reference

K
KeyValue: API Reference
KvmInfo: API Reference

L
LostTickPolicy: API Reference

M
MachineInfo: API Reference
MapEntry: API Reference
Memdev: API Reference
MemoryDeviceInfo: API Reference
MemoryInfo: API Reference
MigrateSetParameters: API Reference
MigrationCapability: API Reference
MigrationCapabilityStatus: API Reference
MigrationInfo: API Reference
MigrationParameter: API Reference
MigrationParameters: API Reference
MigrationStats: API Reference
MigrationStatus: API Reference
MirrorCopyMode: API Reference
MirrorSyncMode: API Reference
MouseInfo: API Reference

N
NameInfo: API Reference
NbdServerRemoveMode: API Reference
NetClientDriver: API Reference
Netdev: API Reference
NetdevBridgeOptions: API Reference
NetdevHubPortOptions: API Reference
NetdevL2TPv3Options: API Reference
NetdevNetmapOptions: API Reference
NetdevSocketOptions: API Reference
NetdevTapOptions: API Reference
NetdevUserOptions: API Reference
NetdevVdeOptions: API Reference
NetdevVhostUserOptions: API Reference
NetFilterDirection: API Reference
NetLegacy: API Reference
NetLegacyNicOptions: API Reference
NetLegacyOptions: API Reference
NetLegacyOptionsType: API Reference
NetworkAddressFamily: API Reference
NewImageMode: API Reference
NFSServer: API Reference
NFSTransport: API Reference
NumaCpuOptions: API Reference
NumaDistOptions: API Reference
NumaNodeOptions: API Reference
NumaOptions: API Reference
NumaOptionsType: API Reference

O
ObjectPropertyInfo: API Reference
ObjectTypeInfo: API Reference
OffAutoPCIBAR: API Reference
OnOffAuto: API Reference
OnOffSplit: API Reference

P
PCDIMMDeviceInfo: API Reference
PciBridgeInfo: API Reference
PciBusInfo: API Reference
PciDeviceClass: API Reference
PciDeviceId: API Reference
PciDeviceInfo: API Reference
PCIELinkSpeed: API Reference
PCIELinkWidth: API Reference
PciInfo: API Reference
PciMemoryRange: API Reference
PciMemoryRegion: API Reference
PreallocMode: API Reference
PRManagerInfo: API Reference

Q
QapiErrorClass: API Reference
QAuthZListFormat: API Reference
QAuthZListPolicy: API Reference
QAuthZListRule: API Reference
QAuthZListRuleListHack: API Reference
Qcow2BitmapInfo: API Reference
Qcow2BitmapInfoFlags: API Reference
Qcow2OverlapCheckFlags: API Reference
Qcow2OverlapCheckMode: API Reference
Qcow2OverlapChecks: API Reference
QCryptoBlockCreateOptions: API Reference
QCryptoBlockCreateOptionsLUKS: API Reference
QCryptoBlockFormat: API Reference
QCryptoBlockInfo: API Reference
QCryptoBlockInfoBase: API Reference
QCryptoBlockInfoLUKS: API Reference
QCryptoBlockInfoLUKSSlot: API Reference
QCryptoBlockOpenOptions: API Reference
QCryptoBlockOptionsBase: API Reference
QCryptoBlockOptionsLUKS: API Reference
QCryptoBlockOptionsQCow: API Reference
QCryptoCipherAlgorithm: API Reference
QCryptoCipherMode: API Reference
QCryptoHashAlgorithm: API Reference
QCryptoIVGenAlgorithm: API Reference
QCryptoSecretFormat: API Reference
QCryptoTLSCredsEndpoint: API Reference
QKeyCode: API Reference
QMPCapability: API Reference
QuorumOpType: API Reference
QuorumReadPattern: API Reference

R
RbdAuthMode: API Reference
ReplayMode: API Reference
ReplicationMode: API Reference
ReplicationStatus: API Reference
RockerOfDpaFlow: API Reference
RockerOfDpaFlowAction: API Reference
RockerOfDpaFlowKey: API Reference
RockerOfDpaFlowMask: API Reference
RockerOfDpaGroup: API Reference
RockerPort: API Reference
RockerPortAutoneg: API Reference
RockerPortDuplex: API Reference
RockerSwitch: API Reference
RunState: API Reference
RxFilterInfo: API Reference
RxState: API Reference

S
S390CrashReason: API Reference
SchemaInfo: API Reference
SchemaInfoAlternate: API Reference
SchemaInfoAlternateMember: API Reference
SchemaInfoArray: API Reference
SchemaInfoBuiltin: API Reference
SchemaInfoCommand: API Reference
SchemaInfoEnum: API Reference
SchemaInfoEvent: API Reference
SchemaInfoObject: API Reference
SchemaInfoObjectMember: API Reference
SchemaInfoObjectVariant: API Reference
SchemaMetaType: API Reference
SevCapability: API Reference
SevInfo: API Reference
SevLaunchMeasureInfo: API Reference
SevState: API Reference
SheepdogRedundancy: API Reference
SheepdogRedundancyErasureCoded: API Reference
SheepdogRedundancyFull: API Reference
SheepdogRedundancyType: API Reference
ShutdownCause: API Reference
SnapshotInfo: API Reference
SocketAddress: API Reference
SocketAddressLegacy: API Reference
SocketAddressType: API Reference
SpiceBasicInfo: API Reference
SpiceChannel: API Reference
SpiceInfo: API Reference
SpiceQueryMouseMode: API Reference
SpiceServerInfo: API Reference
SshHostKeyCheck: API Reference
SshHostKeyCheckHashType: API Reference
SshHostKeyCheckMode: API Reference
SshHostKeyHash: API Reference
StatusInfo: API Reference
String: API Reference
StrOrNull: API Reference
SysEmuTarget: API Reference

T
TargetInfo: API Reference
ThrottleLimits: API Reference
TPMEmulatorOptions: API Reference
TPMInfo: API Reference
TpmModel: API Reference
TPMPassthroughOptions: API Reference
TpmType: API Reference
TpmTypeOptions: API Reference
TraceEventInfo: API Reference
TraceEventState: API Reference
TransactionAction: API Reference
TransactionProperties: API Reference

U
UnixSocketAddress: API Reference
UuidInfo: API Reference

V
VersionInfo: API Reference
VersionTriple: API Reference
VirtioPMEMDeviceInfo: API Reference
VncBasicInfo: API Reference
VncClientInfo: API Reference
VncInfo: API Reference
VncInfo2: API Reference
VncPrimaryAuth: API Reference
VncServerInfo: API Reference
VncServerInfo2: API Reference
VncVencryptSubAuth: API Reference
VsockSocketAddress: API Reference

W
WatchdogAction: API Reference

X
X86CPUFeatureWordInfo: API Reference
X86CPURegister32: API Reference
XBZRLECacheStats: API Reference
XDbgBlockGraph: API Reference
XDbgBlockGraphEdge: API Reference
XDbgBlockGraphNode: API Reference
XDbgBlockGraphNodeType: API Reference

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