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QEMU-QMP-REF.7

Section: (7)
Updated: 2017-05-26
Index Return to Main Contents
 

NAME

qemu-qmp-ref - QEMU QMP Reference Manual  

DESCRIPTION

 

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/qmp-spec.txt) for detailed information on the Server command and response formats.  

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)
 

QAPI common definitions

QapiErrorClass (Enum)

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
DeviceEncrypted
the requested operation can't be fulfilled because the selected device is encrypted
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

VersionTriple (Object)

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

VersionInfo (Object)

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

query-version (Command) 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":""
              }
           }

CommandInfo (Object)

Information about a QMP command

Members:

name: string
The command name

Since: 0.14.0

query-commands (Command) 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.

OnOffAuto (Enum)

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

OnOffSplit (Enum)

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

Values:

on
Enabled
off
Disabled
split
Mixed

Since: 2.6  

QAPI crypto definitions

QCryptoTLSCredsEndpoint (Enum)

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

QCryptoSecretFormat (Enum)

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

QCryptoHashAlgorithm (Enum)

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

QCryptoCipherAlgorithm (Enum)

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

QCryptoCipherMode (Enum)

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

QCryptoIVGenAlgorithm (Enum)

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

QCryptoBlockFormat (Enum)

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

QCryptoBlockOptionsBase (Object)

The common options that apply to all full disk encryption formats

Members:

format: QCryptoBlockFormat
the encryption format

Since: 2.6

QCryptoBlockOptionsQCow (Object)

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

QCryptoBlockOptionsLUKS (Object)

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

QCryptoBlockCreateOptionsLUKS (Object)

The options that apply to LUKS encryption format initialization

Members:

cipher-alg: QCryptoCipherAlgorithm (optional)
the cipher algorithm for data encryption Currently defaults to 'aes'.
cipher-mode: QCryptoCipherMode (optional)
the cipher mode for data encryption Currently defaults to 'cbc'
ivgen-alg: QCryptoIVGenAlgorithm (optional)
the initialization vector generator Currently defaults to 'essiv'
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

QCryptoBlockOpenOptions (Object)

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

QCryptoBlockCreateOptions (Object)

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

QCryptoBlockInfoBase (Object)

The common information that applies to all full disk encryption formats

Members:

format: QCryptoBlockFormat
the encryption format

Since: 2.7

QCryptoBlockInfoLUKSSlot (Object)

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

QCryptoBlockInfoLUKS (Object)

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

QCryptoBlockInfoQCow (Object)

Information about the QCow block encryption options

Since: 2.7

QCryptoBlockInfo (Object)

Information about the block encryption options

Members:

The members of QCryptoBlockInfoBase
The members of QCryptoBlockInfoQCow when format is qcow
The members of QCryptoBlockInfoLUKS when format is luks

Since: 2.7  

QAPI block definitions

QAPI block core definitions (vm unrelated)

SnapshotInfo (Object)

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

ImageInfoSpecificQCow2 (Object)

Members:

compat: string
compatibility level
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)

Since: 1.7

ImageInfoSpecificVmdk (Object)

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

ImageInfoSpecific (Object)

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

ImageInfo (Object)

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

ImageCheck (Object)

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

MapEntry (Object)

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

BlockdevCacheInfo (Object)

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

BlockDeviceInfo (Object)

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
true if the backing device is encrypted but an valid encryption key is missing
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

BlockDeviceIoStatus (Enum)

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

BlockDeviceMapEntry (Object)

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

DirtyBitmapStatus (Enum)

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

Values:

frozen
The bitmap is currently in-use by a backup operation or block job, and is immutable.
disabled
The bitmap is currently in-use by an internal operation and is read-only. It can still be deleted.
active
The bitmap is actively monitoring for new writes, and can be cleared, deleted, or used for backup operations.

Since: 2.4

BlockDirtyInfo (Object)

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
current status of the dirty bitmap (since 2.4)

Since: 1.3

BlockInfo (Object)

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.
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-disk)
inserted: BlockDeviceInfo (optional)
"BlockDeviceInfo" describing the device if media is present

Since: 0.14.0

query-block (Command) Get a list of BlockInfo for all virtual block devices.

Returns: a list of "BlockInfo" describing each virtual block device

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
                          }
                       }
                    },
                    "type":"unknown"
                 },
                 {
                    "io-status": "ok",
                    "device":"ide1-cd0",
                    "locked":false,
                    "removable":true,
                    "type":"unknown"
                 },
                 {
                    "device":"floppy0",
                    "locked":false,
                    "removable":true,
                    "type":"unknown"
                 },
                 {
                    "device":"sd0",
                    "locked":false,
                    "removable":true,
                    "type":"unknown"
                 }
              ]
           }

BlockDeviceTimedStats (Object)

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

BlockDeviceStats (Object)

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)

Since: 0.14.0

BlockStats (Object)

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)
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

query-blockstats (Command) 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''. (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
                    }
                 },
                 {
                    "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
                    }
                 },
                 {
                    "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
                    }
                 },
                 {
                    "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
                    }
                 }
              ]
           }

BlockdevOnError (Enum)

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

MirrorSyncMode (Enum)

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

BlockJobType (Enum)

Type of a block 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''

Since: 1.7

BlockJobInfo (Object)

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
the maximum progress value
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.
offset: int
the current progress value
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)

Since: 1.1

query-block-jobs (Command) Return information about long-running block device operations.

Returns: a list of "BlockJobInfo" for each active block job

Since: 1.1

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

The two cases where this can happen are a block device is created through QEMU's initial command line or a block device is changed through the legacy "change" interface.

In the event that the block device is created through the initial command line, the VM will start in the stopped state regardless of whether '-S' is used. The intention is for a management tool to query the block devices to determine which ones are encrypted, set the passwords with this command, and then start the guest with the "cont" command.

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

Arguments:

device: string (optional)
the name of the block backend device to set the password on
node-name: string (optional)
graph node name to set the password on (Since 2.0)
password: string
the password to use for the device

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

Notes: Not all block formats support encryption and some that do are not able to validate that a password is correct. Disk corruption may occur if an invalid password is specified.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

        -> { "execute": "block_passwd", "arguments": { "device": "ide0-hd0",
                                                       "password": "12345" } }
        <- { "return": {} }

block_resize (Command) 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": {} }

NewImageMode (Enum)

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

BlockdevSnapshotSync (Object)

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

Members:

device: string (optional)
the name of the device to generate the snapshot from.
node-name: string (optional)
graph node name to generate the snapshot from (Since 2.0)
snapshot-file: string
the target of the new image. If the file exists, or if it is a device, the snapshot 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 snapshot image, default is 'qcow2'.
mode: NewImageMode (optional)
whether and how QEMU should create a new image, default is 'absolute-paths'.

BlockdevSnapshot (Object)

Members:

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

Since: 2.5

DriveBackup (Object)

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").

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

BlockdevBackup (Object)

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.
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").

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

blockdev-snapshot-sync (Command) Generates 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": {} }

blockdev-snapshot (Command) Generates a snapshot of a block device.

Create 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": { "options": { "driver": "qcow2",
                                         "node-name": "node1534",
                                         "file": { "driver": "file",
                                                   "filename": "hd1.qcow2" },
                                         "backing": "" } } }
        
        <- { "return": {} }
        
        -> { "execute": "blockdev-snapshot",
             "arguments": { "node": "ide-hd0",
                            "overlay": "node1534" } }
        <- { "return": {} }

change-backing-file (Command) 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

block-commit (Command) 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: string (optional)
The file name of the backing image to write data into. If not specified, this is the deepest backing image.
top: string (optional)
The file 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.
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)

Returns: Nothing on success If commit or stream is already active on this device, DeviceInUse If "device" does not exist, DeviceNotFound If image commit is not supported by this device, NotSupported If "base" or "top" is invalid, a generic error is returned If "speed" is invalid, InvalidParameter

Since: 1.3

Example:

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

drive-backup (Command) 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": {} }

blockdev-backup (Command) 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": {} }

query-named-block-nodes (Command) 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
                              }
                           } } ] }

drive-mirror (Command) 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": {} }

DriveMirror (Object)

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)

Since: 1.3

BlockDirtyBitmap (Object)

Members:

node: string
name of device/node which the bitmap is tracking
name: string
name of the dirty bitmap

Since: 2.4

BlockDirtyBitmapAdd (Object)

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

Since: 2.4

block-dirty-bitmap-add (Command) 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": {} }

block-dirty-bitmap-remove (Command) Stop write tracking and remove the dirty bitmap that was created with block-dirty-bitmap-add.

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": {} }

block-dirty-bitmap-clear (Command) 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": {} }

blockdev-mirror (Command) 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)

Returns: nothing on success.

Since: 2.6

Example:

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

block_set_io_throttle (Command) 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": "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": {} }

BlockIOThrottle (Object)

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

block-stream (Command) 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.

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": {} }

block-job-set-speed (Command) 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

block-job-cancel (Command) 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.

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)
whether to allow cancellation of a paused job (default false). Since 1.3.

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

Since: 1.1

block-job-pause (Command) 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. Pausing an already paused job has no cumulative effect; a single block-job-resume command will resume the job.

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

block-job-resume (Command) 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. Resuming an already running job is not an error.

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

block-job-complete (Command) 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

BlockdevDiscardOptions (Enum)

Determines how to handle discard requests.

Values:

ignore
Ignore the request
unmap
Forward as an unmap request

Since: 2.9

BlockdevDetectZeroesOptions (Enum)

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

BlockdevAioOptions (Enum)

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

BlockdevCacheOptions (Object)

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

BlockdevDriver (Enum)

Drivers that are supported in block device operations.

Values:

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
sheepdog
Not documented
ssh
Not documented
vdi
Not documented
vhdx
Not documented
vmdk
Not documented
vpc
Not documented
vvfat
Not documented

Since: 2.9

BlockdevOptionsFile (Object)

Driver specific block device options for the file backend.

Members:

filename: string
path to the image file
aio: BlockdevAioOptions (optional)
AIO backend (default: threads) (since: 2.8)

Since: 2.9

BlockdevOptionsNull (Object)

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)

Since: 2.9

BlockdevOptionsVVFAT (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsLUKS (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat (Object)

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

Members:

backing: BlockdevRef (optional)
reference to or definition of the backing file block device (if missing, taken from the image file content). It is allowed to pass an empty string here in order to disable the default backing file.
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat

Since: 2.9

Qcow2OverlapCheckMode (Enum)

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

Qcow2OverlapCheckFlags (Object)

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'
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

Qcow2OverlapChecks (Alternate)

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

BlockdevOptionsQcow2 (Object)

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)
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 0 and it disables this feature (since 2.5)
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat

Since: 2.9

BlockdevOptionsSsh (Object)

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

TODO: Expose the host_key_check option in QMP

Since: 2.9

BlkdebugEvent (Enum)

Trigger events supported by blkdebug.

Values:

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

BlkdebugInjectErrorOptions (Object)

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''
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

BlkdebugSetStateOptions (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsBlkdebug (Object)

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 power of 2, or 0 for default
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

BlockdevOptionsBlkverify (Object)

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

QuorumReadPattern (Enum)

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

BlockdevOptionsQuorum (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsGluster (Object)

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 SocketAddressFlat
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

IscsiTransport (Enum)

An enumeration of libiscsi transport types

Values:

tcp
Not documented
iser
Not documented

Since: 2.9

IscsiHeaderDigest (Enum)

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

BlockdevOptionsIscsi (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsRbd (Object)

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.
server: array of InetSocketAddressBase (optional)
Monitor host address and port. This maps to the ``mon_host'' Ceph option.

Since: 2.9

BlockdevOptionsSheepdog (Object)

Driver specific block device options for sheepdog

Members:

vdi: string
Virtual disk image name
server: SocketAddressFlat
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

ReplicationMode (Enum)

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

BlockdevOptionsReplication (Object)

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

NFSTransport (Enum)

An enumeration of NFS transport types

Values:

inet
TCP transport

Since: 2.9

NFSServer (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsNfs (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsCurlBase (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsCurlHttp (Object)

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.
The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlBase

Since: 2.9

BlockdevOptionsCurlHttps (Object)

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)
The members of BlockdevOptionsCurlBase

Since: 2.9

BlockdevOptionsCurlFtp (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsCurlFtps (Object)

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

BlockdevOptionsNbd (Object)

Driver specific block device options for NBD.

Members:

server: SocketAddressFlat
NBD server address
export: string (optional)
export name
tls-creds: string (optional)
TLS credentials ID

Since: 2.9

BlockdevOptionsRaw (Object)

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

BlockdevOptions (Object)

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.
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)
detect-zeroes: BlockdevDetectZeroesOptions (optional)
detect and optimize zero writes (Since 2.1) (default: off)
The members of BlockdevOptionsBlkdebug when driver is blkdebug
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 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 BlockdevOptionsGenericFormat when driver is parallels
The members of BlockdevOptionsQcow2 when driver is qcow2
The members of BlockdevOptionsGenericCOWFormat 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
The members of BlockdevOptionsSheepdog when driver is sheepdog
The members of BlockdevOptionsSsh when driver is ssh
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

Remaining options are determined by the block driver.

Since: 2.9

BlockdevRef (Alternate)

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.

Since: 2.9

blockdev-add (Command) 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": {} }

blockdev-del (Command) 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": {} }

blockdev-open-tray (Command) 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:

-
if the guest has locked the tray, "force" is false and the guest does not respond to the eject request
-
if the BlockBackend denoted by "device" does not have a guest device attached to it
-
if the guest device does not have an actual 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)
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": {} }

blockdev-close-tray (Command) 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": {} }

x-blockdev-remove-medium (Command) 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:

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)

Note: This command is still a work in progress and is considered experimental. Stay away from it unless you want to help with its development.

Since: 2.5

Example:

        -> { "execute": "x-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": "x-blockdev-remove-medium",
             "arguments": { "device": "ide0-1-0" } }
        
        <- { "return": {} }

x-blockdev-insert-medium (Command) 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:

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)
node-name: string
name of a node in the block driver state graph

Note: This command is still a work in progress and is considered experimental. Stay away from it unless you want to help with its development.

Since: 2.5

Example:

        -> { "execute": "blockdev-add",
             "arguments": {
                 "options": { "node-name": "node0",
                              "driver": "raw",
                              "file": { "driver": "file",
                                        "filename": "fedora.iso" } } } }
        <- { "return": {} }
        
        -> { "execute": "x-blockdev-insert-medium",
             "arguments": { "id": "ide0-1-0",
                            "node-name": "node0" } }
        
        <- { "return": {} }

BlockdevChangeReadOnlyMode (Enum)

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

blockdev-change-medium (Command) 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, x-blockdev-remove-medium, x-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": {} }

BlockErrorAction (Enum)

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

BLOCK_IMAGE_CORRUPTED (Event) 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

BLOCK_IO_ERROR (Event) 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
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. (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 } }

BLOCK_JOB_COMPLETED (Event) Emitted when a block job has completed

Arguments:

type: BlockJobType
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 } }

BLOCK_JOB_CANCELLED (Event) Emitted when a block job has been cancelled

Arguments:

type: BlockJobType
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 } }

BLOCK_JOB_ERROR (Event) 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 } }

BLOCK_JOB_READY (Event) Emitted when a block job is ready to complete

Arguments:

type: BlockJobType
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 } }

PreallocMode (Enum)

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

BLOCK_WRITE_THRESHOLD (Event) 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-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

block-set-write-threshold (Command) 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": {} }

x-blockdev-change (Command) 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.

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": {
                 "options": { "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": {} }

QAPI block definitions (vm unrelated)

BiosAtaTranslation (Enum)

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

FloppyDriveType (Enum)

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

BlockdevSnapshotInternal (Object)

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

blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync (Command) 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": {} }

blockdev-snapshot-delete-internal-sync (Command) 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
             }
           }

eject (Command) 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": { "device": "ide1-0-1" } }
        <- { "return": {} }

nbd-server-start (Command) 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: SocketAddress
Address on which to listen.
tls-creds: string (optional)
(optional) ID of the TLS credentials object. Since 2.6

Returns: error if the server is already running.

Since: 1.3.0

nbd-server-add (Command) 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
writable: boolean (optional)
Whether clients should be able to write to the device via the NBD connection (default false).

Returns: error if the device is already marked for export.

Since: 1.3.0

nbd-server-stop (Command) Stop QEMU's embedded NBD server, and unregister all devices previously added via "nbd-server-add".

Since: 1.3.0

DEVICE_TRAY_MOVED (Event) 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 } }

QuorumOpType (Enum)

An enumeration of the quorum operation types

Values:

read
read operation
write
write operation
flush
flush operation

Since: 2.6  

Other events

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

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",
             "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267040730, "microseconds": 682951 } }

POWERDOWN (Event) 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 } }

RESET (Event) Emitted when the virtual machine is reset

Since: 0.12.0

Example:

        <- { "event": "RESET",
             "timestamp": { "seconds": 1267041653, "microseconds": 9518 } }

STOP (Event) Emitted when the virtual machine is stopped

Since: 0.12.0

Example:

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

RESUME (Event) Emitted when the virtual machine resumes execution

Since: 0.12.0

Example:

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

SUSPEND (Event) 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 } }

SUSPEND_DISK (Event) 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 } }

WAKEUP (Event) Emitted when the guest has woken up from suspend state and is running

Since: 1.1

Example:

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

RTC_CHANGE (Event) 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 } }

WATCHDOG (Event) Emitted when the watchdog device's timer is expired

Arguments:

action: WatchdogExpirationAction
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 } }

DEVICE_DELETED (Event) 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 } }

NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED (Event) 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 } }
           }

VNC_CONNECTED (Event) 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 } }

VNC_INITIALIZED (Event) 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 } }

VNC_DISCONNECTED (Event) 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 } }

SPICE_CONNECTED (Event) 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"}
           }}

SPICE_INITIALIZED (Event) 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}
           }}

SPICE_DISCONNECTED (Event) 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"}
           }}

SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED (Event) Emitted when SPICE migration has completed

Since: 1.3

Example:

        <- { "timestamp": {"seconds": 1290688046, "microseconds": 417172},
             "event": "SPICE_MIGRATE_COMPLETED" }

MIGRATION (Event) 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"} }

MIGRATION_PASS (Event) 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} }

ACPI_DEVICE_OST (Event) Emitted when guest executes ACPI _OST method.

Arguments:

info: ACPIOSTInfo
ACPIOSTInfo type as described in qapi-schema.json

Since: 2.1

Example:

        <- { "event": "ACPI_DEVICE_OST",
             "data": { "device": "d1", "slot": "0",
                       "slot-type": "DIMM", "source": 1, "status": 0 } }

BALLOON_CHANGE (Event) 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 } }

GUEST_PANICKED (Event) 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" } }

QUORUM_FAILURE (Event) 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 } }

QUORUM_REPORT_BAD (Event) 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 } }

VSERPORT_CHANGE (Event) 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 } }

MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR (Event) 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 } }

DUMP_COMPLETED (Event) Emitted when background dump has completed

Arguments:

result: DumpQueryResult
DumpQueryResult type described in qapi-schema.json.
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} } }

 

Tracing commands

TraceEventState (Enum)

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

TraceEventInfo (Object)

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

trace-event-get-state (Command) 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:

-
its name matches the "name" pattern, and
-
if "vcpu" is given, the event has the ``vcpu'' property.

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" } ] }

trace-event-set-state (Command) 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:

-
its name matches the "name" pattern, and
-
if "vcpu" is given, the event has the ``vcpu'' property.

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": {} }

query-qmp-schema (Command) 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

SchemaMetaType (Enum)

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

SchemaInfo (Object)

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

SchemaInfoBuiltin (Object)

Additional SchemaInfo members for meta-type 'builtin'.

Members:

json-type: JSONType
the JSON type used for this type on the wire.

Since: 2.5

JSONType (Enum)

The four primitive and two structured types according to RFC 7159 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

SchemaInfoEnum (Object)

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

SchemaInfoArray (Object)

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

SchemaInfoObject (Object)

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".

Values of this type are JSON object on the wire.

Since: 2.5

SchemaInfoObjectMember (Object)

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

SchemaInfoObjectVariant (Object)

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

SchemaInfoAlternate (Object)

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/qapi-code-gen.txt section Alternate types.

On the wire, this can be any of the members.

Since: 2.5

SchemaInfoAlternateMember (Object)

An alternate member.

Members:

type: string
the name of the member's type.

Since: 2.5

SchemaInfoCommand (Object)

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.

TODO: "success-response" (currently irrelevant, because it's QGA, not QMP)

Since: 2.5

SchemaInfoEvent (Object)

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  

QMP commands

qmp_capabilities (Command) Enable QMP capabilities.

Arguments: None.

Example:

        -> { "execute": "qmp_capabilities" }
        <- { "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/qmp-spec.txt)

Since: 0.13

LostTickPolicy (Enum)

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
merge
merge the missed tick(s) into one tick and inject. Guest time may be delayed, depending on how the OS reacts to the merging of ticks
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

add_client (Command) 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": {} }

NameInfo (Object)

Guest name information.

Members:

name: string (optional)
The name of the guest

Since: 0.14.0

query-name (Command) Return the name information of a guest.

Returns: "NameInfo" of the guest

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

        -> { "execute": "query-name" }
        <- { "return": { "name": "qemu-name" } }

KvmInfo (Object)

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

query-kvm (Command) Returns information about KVM acceleration

Returns: "KvmInfo"

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

        -> { "execute": "query-kvm" }
        <- { "return": { "enabled": true, "present": true } }

RunState (Enum)

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)

StatusInfo (Object)

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

query-status (Command) 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" } }

UuidInfo (Object)

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.

query-uuid (Command) 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" } }

ChardevInfo (Object)

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

query-chardev (Command) 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
                 }
              ]
           }

ChardevBackendInfo (Object)

Information about a character device backend

Members:

name: string
The backend name

Since: 2.0

query-chardev-backends (Command) 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"
                 }
              ]
           }

DataFormat (Enum)

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

ringbuf-write (Command) 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": {} }

ringbuf-read (Command) 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" }

EventInfo (Object)

Information about a QMP event

Members:

name: string
The event name

Since: 1.2.0

query-events (Command) Return a list of supported QMP events by this server

Returns: A list of "EventInfo" for all supported events

Since: 1.2.0

Example:

        -> { "execute": "query-events" }
        <- {
             "return": [
                 {
                    "name":"SHUTDOWN"
                 },
                 {
                    "name":"RESET"
                 }
              ]
           }

Note: This example has been shortened as the real response is too long.

MigrationStats (Object)

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)

Since: 0.14.0

XBZRLECacheStats (Object)

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

MigrationStatus (Enum)

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)
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)

Since: 2.3

MigrationInfo (Object)

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)

Since: 0.14.0

query-migrate (Command) 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",
                "ram":{
                  "transferred":123,
                  "remaining":123,
                  "total":246,
                  "total-time":12345,
                  "setup-time":12345,
                  "downtime":12345,
                  "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",
                 "ram":{
                    "transferred":123,
                    "remaining":123,
                    "total":246,
                    "total-time":12345,
                    "setup-time":12345,
                    "expected-downtime":12345,
                    "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",
                 "ram":{
                    "total":1057024,
                    "remaining":1053304,
                    "transferred":3720,
                    "total-time":12345,
                    "setup-time":12345,
                    "expected-downtime":12345,
                    "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",
                 "capabilities" : [ { "capability": "xbzrle", "state" : true } ],
                 "ram":{
                    "total":1057024,
                    "remaining":1053304,
                    "transferred":3720,
                    "total-time":12345,
                    "setup-time":12345,
                    "expected-downtime":12345,
                    "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
                 }
              }
           }

MigrationCapability (Enum)

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. 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)

Since: 1.2

MigrationCapabilityStatus (Object)

Migration capability information

Members:

capability: MigrationCapability
capability enum
state: boolean
capability state bool

Since: 1.2

migrate-set-capabilities (Command) 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 } ] } }

query-migrate-capabilities (Command) 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"}
           ]}

MigrationParameter (Enum)

Migration parameters enumeration

Values:

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.
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)
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)

Since: 2.4

migrate-set-parameters (Command) Set various migration parameters.

Arguments: the members of "MigrationParameters"

Since: 2.4

Example:

        -> { "execute": "migrate-set-parameters" ,
             "arguments": { "compress-level": 1 } }

MigrationParameters (Object)

Optional members can be omitted on input ('migrate-set-parameters') but most members will always be present on output ('query-migrate-parameters'), with the exception of tls-creds and tls-hostname.

Members:

compress-level: int (optional)
compression level
compress-threads: int (optional)
compression thread count
decompress-threads: int (optional)
decompression thread count
cpu-throttle-initial: int (optional)
Initial percentage of time guest cpus are throttledwhen 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: 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. Setting this will enable TLS for all migrations. The default is unset, resulting in unsecured migration at the QEMU level. (Since 2.7) An empty string means that QEMU will use plain text mode for migration, rather than TLS (Since 2.9)
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)
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)

Since: 2.4

query-migrate-parameters (Command) 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
              }
           }

client_migrate_info (Command) 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": {} }

migrate-start-postcopy (Command) Followup to a migration command to switch the migration to postcopy mode. The postcopy-ram capability must be set before the original migration command.

Since: 2.5

Example:

        -> { "execute": "migrate-start-postcopy" }
        <- { "return": {} }

COLOMessage (Enum)

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

COLOMode (Enum)

The colo mode

Values:

unknown
unknown mode
primary
master side
secondary
slave side

Since: 2.8

FailoverStatus (Enum)

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

x-colo-lost-heartbeat (Command) 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": {} }

MouseInfo (Object)

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

query-mice (Command) 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
                 }
              ]
           }

CpuInfoArch (Enum)

An enumeration of cpu types that enable additional information during "query-cpus".

Values:

x86
Not documented
sparc
Not documented
ppc
Not documented
mips
Not documented
tricore
Not documented
other
Not documented

Since: 2.6

CpuInfo (Object)

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
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 CpuInfoOther when arch is other

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.

CpuInfoX86 (Object)

Additional information about a virtual i386 or x86_64 CPU

Members:

pc: int
the 64-bit instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

CpuInfoSPARC (Object)

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

CpuInfoPPC (Object)

Additional information about a virtual PPC CPU

Members:

nip: int
the instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

CpuInfoMIPS (Object)

Additional information about a virtual MIPS CPU

Members:

PC: int
the instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

CpuInfoTricore (Object)

Additional information about a virtual Tricore CPU

Members:

PC: int
the instruction pointer

Since: 2.6

CpuInfoOther (Object)

No additional information is available about the virtual CPU

Since: 2.6

query-cpus (Command) Returns a list of information about each virtual CPU.

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
                 }
              ]
           }

IOThreadInfo (Object)

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

query-iothreads (Command) 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
                 }
              ]
           }

NetworkAddressFamily (Enum)

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

VncBasicInfo (Object)

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

VncServerInfo (Object)

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

VncClientInfo (Object)

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

VncInfo (Object)

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

VncPrimaryAuth (Enum)

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

VncVencryptSubAuth (Enum)

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

VncServerInfo2 (Object)

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

VncInfo2 (Object)

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

query-vnc (Command) 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"
                    }
                 ]
              }
           }

query-vnc-servers (Command) Returns a list of vnc servers. The list can be empty.

Returns: a list of "VncInfo2"

Since: 2.3

SpiceBasicInfo (Object)

The basic information for SPICE network connection

Members:

host: string
IP address
port: string
port number
family: NetworkAddressFamily
address family

Since: 2.1

SpiceServerInfo (Object)

Information about a SPICE server

Members:

auth: string (optional)
authentication method
The members of SpiceBasicInfo

Since: 2.1

SpiceChannel (Object)

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

SpiceQueryMouseMode (Enum)

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

SpiceInfo (Object)

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

query-spice (Command) 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 ... ]
                 ]
              }
           }

BalloonInfo (Object)

Information about the guest balloon device.

Members:

actual: int
the number of bytes the balloon currently contains

Since: 0.14.0

query-balloon (Command) 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,
              }
           }

PciMemoryRange (Object)

A PCI device memory region

Members:

base: int
the starting address (guest physical)
limit: int
the ending address (guest physical)

Since: 0.14.0

PciMemoryRegion (Object)

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

PciBusInfo (Object)

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

PciBridgeInfo (Object)

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

PciDeviceClass (Object)

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

PciDeviceId (Object)

Information about the Id of a PCI device

Members:

device: int
the PCI device id
vendor: int
the PCI vendor id

Since: 2.4

PciDeviceInfo (Object)

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

PciInfo (Object)

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

query-pci (Command) 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.

quit (Command) 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": {} }

stop (Command) 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": {} }

system_reset (Command) Performs a hard reset of a guest.

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

        -> { "execute": "system_reset" }
        <- { "return": {} }

system_powerdown (Command) 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": {} }

cpu (Command) This command is a nop that is only provided for the purposes of compatibility.

Arguments:

index: int
Not documented

Since: 0.14.0

Notes: Do not use this command.

cpu-add (Command) 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

Example:

        -> { "execute": "cpu-add", "arguments": { "id": 2 } }
        <- { "return": {} }

memsave (Command) 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": {} }

pmemsave (Command) 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": {} }

cont (Command) Resume guest VCPU execution.

Since: 0.14.0

Returns: If successful, nothing If QEMU was started with an encrypted block device and a key has not yet been set, DeviceEncrypted.

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": {} }

system_wakeup (Command) Wakeup guest from suspend. Does nothing in case the guest isn't suspended.

Since: 1.1

Returns: nothing.

Example:

        -> { "execute": "system_wakeup" }
        <- { "return": {} }

inject-nmi (Command) 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": {} }

set_link (Command) 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": {} }

balloon (Command) 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": {} }

Abort (Object)

This action can be used to test transaction failure.

Since: 1.6

ActionCompletionMode (Enum)

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

TransactionAction (Object)

A discriminated record of operations that can be performed with "transaction". Action "type" can be:

-
"abort": since 1.6
-
"block-dirty-bitmap-add": since 2.5
-
"block-dirty-bitmap-clear": since 2.5
-
"blockdev-backup": since 2.3
-
"blockdev-snapshot": since 2.5
-
"blockdev-snapshot-internal-sync": since 1.7
-
"blockdev-snapshot-sync": since 1.1
-
"drive-backup": since 1.6

Members:

type
One of ``abort'', ``block-dirty-bitmap-add'', ``block-dirty-bitmap-clear'', ``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: 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

TransactionProperties (Object)

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

transaction (Command) 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": {} }

human-monitor-command (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:

*
This command is stateless, this means that commands that depend on state information (such as getfd) might not work
*
Commands that prompt the user for data (eg. 'cont' when the block device is encrypted) don't currently work

Example:

        -> { "execute": "human-monitor-command",
             "arguments": { "command-line": "info kvm" } }
        <- { "return": "kvm support: enabled\r\n" }

migrate_cancel (Command) 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": {} }

migrate_set_downtime (Command) 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": {} }

migrate_set_speed (Command) 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": {} }

migrate-set-cache-size (Command) 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

Since: 1.2

Example:

        -> { "execute": "migrate-set-cache-size",
             "arguments": { "value": 536870912 } }
        <- { "return": {} }

query-migrate-cache-size (Command) Query migration XBZRLE cache size

Returns: XBZRLE cache size in bytes

Since: 1.2

Example:

        -> { "execute": "query-migrate-cache-size" }
        <- { "return": 67108864 }

ObjectPropertyInfo (Object)

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.

Since: 1.2

qom-list (Command) 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

qom-get (Command) 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

qom-set (Command) 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

set_password (Command) 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": {} }

expire_password (Command) 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": {} }

change-vnc-password (Command) 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.

change (Command) 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. If this argument is an empty string, then no future logins will be allowed.

Returns: Nothing on success. If "device" is not a valid block device, DeviceNotFound If the new block device is encrypted, DeviceEncrypted. Note that if this error is returned, the device has been opened successfully and an additional call to "block_passwd" is required to set the device's password. The behavior of reads and writes to the block device between when these calls are executed is undefined.

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": {} }

ObjectTypeInfo (Object)

This structure describes a search result from "qom-list-types"

Members:

name: string
the type name found in the search

Since: 1.1

Notes: This command is experimental and may change syntax in future releases.

qom-list-types (Command) 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

DevicePropertyInfo (Object)

Information about device properties.

Members:

name: string
the name of the property
type: string
the typename of the property
description: string (optional)
if specified, the description of the property. (since 2.2)

Since: 1.2

device-list-properties (Command) List properties associated with a device.

Arguments:

typename: string
the type name of a device

Returns: a list of DevicePropertyInfo describing a devices properties

Since: 1.2

migrate (Command) 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

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": {} }

migrate-incoming (Command) 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": {} }

xen-save-devices-state (Command) 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.

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 1.1

Example:

        -> { "execute": "xen-save-devices-state",
             "arguments": { "filename": "/tmp/save" } }
        <- { "return": {} }

xen-set-global-dirty-log (Command) 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": {} }

device_add (Command)

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

device_del (Command) 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": {} }

DumpGuestMemoryFormat (Enum)

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

Since: 2.0

dump-guest-memory (Command) 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": {} }

DumpStatus (Enum)

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

DumpQueryResult (Object)

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

query-dump (Command) 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 } }

DumpGuestMemoryCapability (Object)

A list of the available formats for dump-guest-memory

Members:

formats: array of DumpGuestMemoryFormat
Not documented

Since: 2.0

query-dump-guest-memory-capability (Command) 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"] }

dump-skeys (Command) 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": {} }

netdev_add (Command) Add a network backend.

Arguments:

type: string
the type of network backend. Current valid values are 'user', 'tap', 'vde', 'socket', 'dump' and 'bridge'
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": {} }

netdev_del (Command) 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-add (Command) 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": {} }

object-del (Command) 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": {} }

NetdevNoneOptions (Object)

Use it alone to have zero network devices.

Since: 1.2

NetLegacyNicOptions (Object)

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

String (Object)

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

Members:

str: string
Not documented

Since: 1.2

NetdevUserOptions (Object)

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
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

Since: 1.2

NetdevTapOptions (Object)

Connect the host TAP network interface name to the VLAN.

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

NetdevSocketOptions (Object)

Connect the VLAN to a remote VLAN in another QEMU virtual machine using a TCP socket connection.

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

NetdevL2TPv3Options (Object)

Connect the VLAN to Ethernet over L2TPv3 Static 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

NetdevVdeOptions (Object)

Connect the VLAN 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

NetdevDumpOptions (Object)

Dump VLAN network traffic to a file.

Members:

len: int (optional)
per-packet size limit (64k default). Understands [TGMKkb] suffixes.
file: string (optional)
dump file path (default is qemu-vlan0.pcap)

Since: 1.2

NetdevBridgeOptions (Object)

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

NetdevHubPortOptions (Object)

Connect two or more net clients through a software hub.

Members:

hubid: int
hub identifier number

Since: 1.2

NetdevNetmapOptions (Object)

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

NetdevVhostUserOptions (Object)

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

NetClientDriver (Enum)

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
dump
Not documented
bridge
Not documented
hubport
Not documented
netmap
Not documented
vhost-user
Not documented

Since: 2.7

Netdev (Object)

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 NetdevNoneOptions when type is none
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 NetdevDumpOptions when type is dump
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

NetLegacy (Object)

Captures the configuration of a network device; legacy.

Members:

vlan: int (optional)
vlan number
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

NetLegacyOptionsType (Enum)

Values:

none
Not documented
nic
Not documented
user
Not documented
tap
Not documented
l2tpv3
Not documented
socket
Not documented
vde
Not documented
dump
Not documented
bridge
Not documented
netmap
Not documented
vhost-user
Not documented

Since: 1.2

NetLegacyOptions (Object)

Like Netdev, but for use only by the legacy command line options

Members:

type: NetLegacyOptionsType
Not documented
The members of NetdevNoneOptions when type is none
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 NetdevDumpOptions when type is dump
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

NetFilterDirection (Enum)

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

InetSocketAddressBase (Object)

Members:

host: string
host part of the address
port: string
port part of the address

InetSocketAddress (Object)

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

UnixSocketAddress (Object)

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

Members:

path: string
filesystem path to use

Since: 1.3

VsockSocketAddress (Object)

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

SocketAddress (Object)

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

Since: 1.3

SocketAddressFlatType (Enum)

Available SocketAddressFlat types

Values:

inet
Internet address
unix
Unix domain socket
vsock
Not documented
fd
Not documented

Since: 2.9

SocketAddressFlat (Object)

Captures the address of a socket

Members:

type: SocketAddressFlatType
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

This is just like SocketAddress, except it's a flat union rather than a simple union. Nicer because it avoids nesting on the wire, i.e. this form has fewer {}.

Since: 2.9

getfd (Command) 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": {} }

closefd (Command) 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": {} }

MachineInfo (Object)

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)

Since: 1.2.0

query-machines (Command) Return a list of supported machines

Returns: a list of MachineInfo

Since: 1.2.0

CpuDefinitionInfo (Object)

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 QMU 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)

"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

query-cpu-definitions (Command) Return a list of supported virtual CPU definitions

Returns: a list of CpuDefInfo

Since: 1.2.0

CpuModelInfo (Object)

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

CpuModelExpansionType (Enum)

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, independant of 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. 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

CpuModelExpansionInfo (Object)

The result of a cpu model expansion.

Members:

model: CpuModelInfo
the expanded CpuModelInfo.

Since: 2.8.0

query-cpu-model-expansion (Command) 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:

*
QEMU version: CPU models may look different depending on the QEMU version. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
machine-type: CPU model may look different depending on the machine-type. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
machine options (including accelerator): in some architectures, CPU models may look different depending on machine and accelerator options. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
``-cpu'' arguments and global properties: arguments to the -cpu option and global properties may affect expansion of CPU models. Using query-cpu-model-expansion while using these is not advised.

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

CpuModelCompareResult (Enum)

An enumeration of CPU model comparation 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

CpuModelCompareInfo (Object)

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

query-cpu-model-comparison (Command) 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:

*
QEMU version: CPU models may look different depending on the QEMU version. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
machine-type: CPU model may look different depending on the machine-type. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
machine options (including accelerator): in some architectures, CPU models may look different depending on machine and accelerator options. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
``-cpu'' arguments and global properties: arguments to the -cpu option and global properties may affect expansion of CPU models. Using query-cpu-model-expansion while using these is not advised.

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.

Since: 2.8.0

CpuModelBaselineInfo (Object)

The result of a CPU model baseline.

Members:

model: CpuModelInfo
the baselined CpuModelInfo.

Since: 2.8.0

query-cpu-model-baseline (Command) 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:

*
QEMU version: CPU models may look different depending on the QEMU version. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
machine-type: CPU model may look different depending on the machine-type. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
machine options (including accelerator): in some architectures, CPU models may look different depending on machine and accelerator options. (Except for CPU models reported as ``static'' in query-cpu-definitions.)
*
``-cpu'' arguments and global properties: arguments to the -cpu option and global properties may affect expansion of CPU models. Using query-cpu-model-expansion while using these is not advised.

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.

Since: 2.8.0

AddfdInfo (Object)

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

add-fd (Command) 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 } }

remove-fd (Command) 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": {} }

FdsetFdInfo (Object)

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

FdsetInfo (Object)

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

query-fdsets (Command) 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
               }
             ]
           }

TargetInfo (Object)

Information describing the QEMU target.

Members:

arch: string
the target architecture (eg ``x86_64'', ``i386'', etc)

Since: 1.2.0

query-target (Command) Return information about the target for this QEMU

Returns: TargetInfo

Since: 1.2.0

QKeyCode (Enum)

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
shift
Not documented
shift_r
Not documented
alt
Not documented
alt_r
Not documented
altgr
Not documented
altgr_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

Since: 1.3.0

KeyValue (Object)

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

send-key (Command) 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": {} }

screendump (Command) Write a PPM of the VGA screen to a file.

Arguments:

filename: string
the path of a new PPM file to store the image

Returns: Nothing on success

Since: 0.14.0

Example:

        -> { "execute": "screendump",
             "arguments": { "filename": "/tmp/image" } }
        <- { "return": {} }

ChardevCommon (Object)

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

ChardevFile (Object)

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

ChardevHostdev (Object)

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

ChardevSocket (Object)

Configuration info for (stream) socket chardevs.

Members:

addr: SocketAddress
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)
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)
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

ChardevUdp (Object)

Configuration info for datagram socket chardevs.

Members:

remote: SocketAddress
remote address
local: SocketAddress (optional)
local address
The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

ChardevMux (Object)

Configuration info for mux chardevs.

Members:

chardev: string
name of the base chardev.
The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

ChardevStdio (Object)

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

ChardevSpiceChannel (Object)

Configuration info for spice vm channel chardevs.

Members:

type: string
kind of channel (for example vdagent).
The members of ChardevCommon

Since: 1.5

ChardevSpicePort (Object)

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

ChardevVC (Object)

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

ChardevRingbuf (Object)

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

ChardevBackend (Object)

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
data: ChardevSpicePort when type is spiceport
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)

ChardevReturn (Object)

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

chardev-add (Command) 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" } }

chardev-remove (Command) 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": {} }

TpmModel (Enum)

An enumeration of TPM models

Values:

tpm-tis
TPM TIS model

Since: 1.5

query-tpm-models (Command) Return a list of supported TPM models

Returns: a list of TpmModel

Since: 1.5

Example:

        -> { "execute": "query-tpm-models" }
        <- { "return": [ "tpm-tis" ] }

TpmType (Enum)

An enumeration of TPM types

Values:

passthrough
TPM passthrough type

Since: 1.5

query-tpm-types (Command) Return a list of supported TPM types

Returns: a list of TpmType

Since: 1.5

Example:

        -> { "execute": "query-tpm-types" }
        <- { "return": [ "passthrough" ] }

TPMPassthroughOptions (Object)

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

TpmTypeOptions (Object)

A union referencing different TPM backend types' configuration options

Members:

type
'passthrough' The configuration options for the TPM passthrough type
data: TPMPassthroughOptions when type is passthrough

Since: 1.5

TPMInfo (Object)

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

query-tpm (Command) 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"
               }
             ]
           }

AcpiTableOptions (Object)

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

CommandLineParameterType (Enum)

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

CommandLineParameterInfo (Object)

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

CommandLineOptionInfo (Object)

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

query-command-line-options (Command) 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"
                }
             ]
           }

X86CPURegister32 (Enum)

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

X86CPUFeatureWordInfo (Object)

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

DummyForceArrays (Object)

Not used by QMP; hack to let us use X86CPUFeatureWordInfoList internally

Members:

unused: array of X86CPUFeatureWordInfo
Not documented

Since: 2.5

RxState (Enum)

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

RxFilterInfo (Object)

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

query-rx-filter (Command) 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
                }
              ]
           }

InputButton (Enum)

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

InputAxis (Enum)

Position axis of a pointer input device (mouse, tablet).

Values:

x
Not documented
y
Not documented

Since: 2.0

InputKeyEvent (Object)

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

InputBtnEvent (Object)

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

InputMoveEvent (Object)

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

InputEvent (Object)

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

input-send-event (Command) 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": {} }

NumaOptionsType (Enum)

Values:

node
Not documented

Since: 2.1

NumaOptions (Object)

A discriminated record of NUMA options. (for OptsVisitor)

Members:

type: NumaOptionsType
Not documented
The members of NumaNodeOptions when type is node

Since: 2.1

NumaNodeOptions (Object)

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

HostMemPolicy (Enum)

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

Memdev (Object)

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

query-memdev (Command) 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"
               }
             ]
           }

PCDIMMDeviceInfo (Object)

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

MemoryDeviceInfo (Object)

Union containing information about a memory device

Members:

type
One of ``dimm''
data: PCDIMMDeviceInfo when type is dimm

Since: 2.1

query-memory-devices (Command) 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"
                         } ] }

ACPISlotType (Enum)

Values:

DIMM
memory slot
CPU
logical CPU slot (since 2.7)

ACPIOSTInfo (Object)

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

query-acpi-ospm-status (Command) 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}
           ]}

WatchdogExpirationAction (Enum)

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

IoOperationType (Enum)

An enumeration of the I/O operation types

Values:

read
read operation
write
write operation

Since: 2.1

GuestPanicAction (Enum)

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)

GuestPanicInformationType (Enum)

An enumeration of the guest panic information types

Values:

hyper-v
Not documented

Since: 2.9

GuestPanicInformation (Object)

Information about a guest panic

Members:

type: GuestPanicInformationType
Not documented
The members of GuestPanicInformationHyperV when type is hyper-v

Since: 2.9

GuestPanicInformationHyperV (Object)

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

rtc-reset-reinjection (Command) 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": {} }

 

Rocker switch device

RockerSwitch (Object)

Rocker switch information.

Members:

name: string
switch name
id: int
switch ID
ports: int
number of front-panel ports

Since: 2.4

query-rocker (Command) 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}}

RockerPortDuplex (Enum)

An eumeration of port duplex states.

Values:

half
half duplex
full
full duplex

Since: 2.4

RockerPortAutoneg (Enum)

An eumeration of port autoneg states.

Values:

off
autoneg is off
on
autoneg is on

Since: 2.4

RockerPort (Object)

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

query-rocker-ports (Command) 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}
           ]}

RockerOfDpaFlowKey (Object)

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

RockerOfDpaFlowMask (Object)

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

RockerOfDpaFlowAction (Object)

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

RockerOfDpaFlow (Object)

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

query-rocker-of-dpa-flows (Command) 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...},
           ]}

RockerOfDpaGroup (Object)

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

query-rocker-of-dpa-groups (Command) 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}
           ]}

ReplayMode (Enum)

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

xen-load-devices-state (Command) 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": {} }

xen-set-replication (Command) 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

ReplicationStatus (Object)

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

query-xen-replication-status (Command) 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

xen-colo-do-checkpoint (Command) Xen uses this command to notify replication to trigger a checkpoint.

Returns: nothing.

Example:

        -> { "execute": "xen-colo-do-checkpoint" }
        <- { "return": {} }

Since: 2.9

GICCapability (Object)

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

query-gic-capabilities (Command) 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 } ] }

CpuInstanceProperties (Object)

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
core-id: int (optional)
core number within socket the CPU belongs to
thread-id: int (optional)
thread number within core the CPU belongs to

Note: currently there are 4 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

HotpluggableCPU (Object)

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

query-hotpluggable-cpus (Command)

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}
             }
           ]}

GuidInfo (Object)

GUID information.

Members:

guid: string
the globally unique identifier

Since: 2.9

query-vm-generation-id (Command) Show Virtual Machine Generation ID

Since 2.9


 

Index

NAME
DESCRIPTION
Introduction
Stability Considerations
QAPI common definitions
QAPI crypto definitions
QAPI block definitions
Other events
Tracing commands
QMP commands
Rocker switch device





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