QEMU-GA-REF(7)

NAME
qemu-ga-ref - QEMU Guest Agent Protocol Reference

This manual describes the commands supported by the QEMU Guest Agent Protocol.

For locating a particular item, please see the QGA Index <>.

The following notation is used in examples:

        Example:

                    -> ... text sent by client (commands) ...
                    <- ... text sent by server (command responses and events) ...

Example text is formatted for readability. However, in real protocol usage, its commonly emitted as a single line.

Please refer to the QEMU Machine Protocol Specification <> for the general format of commands, responses, and events.

    Command guest-sync-delimited (Since: 1.1)
        Echo back a unique integer value, and prepend to response a leading sentinel byte (0xFF) the client can check scan for.

        This is used by clients talking to the guest agent over the wire to ensure the stream is in sync and doesn't contain stale data from previous client. It must be issued upon initial connection, and after any client-side timeouts (including timeouts on receiving a response to this command).

        After issuing this request, all guest agent responses should be ignored until the response containing the unique integer value the client passed in is returned. Receival of the 0xFF sentinel byte must be handled as an indication that the client's lexer/tokenizer/parser state should be flushed/reset in preparation for reliably receiving the subsequent response. As an optimization, clients may opt to ignore all data until a sentinel value is receiving to avoid unnecessary processing of stale data.

        Similarly, clients should also precede this request with a 0xFF byte to make sure the guest agent flushes any partially read JSON data from a previous client connection.

        Arguments

            •   id (int) -- randomly generated 64-bit integer

        Return
            int -- The unique integer id passed in by the client

    Command guest-sync (Since: 0.15.0)
        Echo back a unique integer value

        This is used by clients talking to the guest agent over the wire to ensure the stream is in sync and doesn't contain stale data from previous client. All guest agent responses should be ignored until the provided unique integer value is returned, and it is up to the client to handle stale whole or partially-delivered JSON text in such a way that this response can be obtained.

        In cases where a partial stale response was previously received by the client, this cannot always be done reliably. One particular scenario being if qemu-ga responses are fed character-by-character into a JSON parser. In these situations, using guest-sync-delimited may be optimal.

        For clients that fetch responses line by line and convert them to JSON objects, guest-sync should be sufficient, but note that in cases where the channel is dirty some attempts at parsing the response may result in a parser error.

        Such clients should also precede this command with a 0xFF byte to make sure the guest agent flushes any partially read JSON data from a previous session.

        Arguments

            •   id (int) -- randomly generated 64-bit integer

        Return
            int -- The unique integer id passed in by the client

    Command guest-ping (Since: 0.15.0)
        Ping the guest agent, a non-error return implies success

    Command guest-get-time (Since: 1.5)
        Get the information about guest's System Time relative to the Epoch of 1970-01-01 in UTC.

        Return
            int -- Time in nanoseconds.

    Command guest-set-time (Since: 1.5)
        Set guest time.

        When a guest is paused or migrated to a file then loaded from that file, the guest OS has no idea that there was a big gap in the time. Depending on how long the gap was, NTP might not be able to resynchronize the guest.

        This command tries to set guest's System Time to the given value, then sets the Hardware Clock (RTC) to the current System Time. This will make it easier for a guest to resynchronize without waiting for NTP. If no time is specified, then the time to set is read from RTC. However, this may not be supported on all platforms (i.e. Windows). If that's the case users are advised to always pass a value.

        Arguments

            •   time (int, optional) -- time of nanoseconds, relative to the Epoch of 1970-01-01 in UTC.

    Object GuestAgentCommandInfo (Since: 1.1.0)
        Information about guest agent commands.

        Members

            •   name (string) -- name of the command

            •   enabled (boolean) -- whether command is currently enabled by guest admin

            •   success-response (boolean) -- whether command returns a response on success (since 1.7)

    Object GuestAgentInfo (Since: 0.15.0)
        Information about guest agent.

        Members

            •   version (string) -- guest agent version

            •   supported_commands ([GuestAgentCommandInfo]) -- Information about guest agent commands

    Command guest-info (Since: 0.15.0)
        Get some information about the guest agent.

        Return
            GuestAgentInfo

    Command guest-shutdown (Since: 0.15.0)
        Initiate guest-activated shutdown. Note: this is an asynchronous shutdown request, with no guarantee of successful shutdown.

        Arguments

            •   mode (string, optional) -- "halt", "powerdown" (default), or "reboot"

    This command does NOT return a response on success. Success condition is indicated by the VM exiting with a zero exit status or, when running with --no-shutdown, by issuing the query-status <#command-QMP-run-state.query-status> QMP command to confirm the VM status is "shutdown".

    Command guest-file-open (Since: 0.15.0)
        Open a file in the guest and retrieve a file handle for it

        Arguments

            •   path (string) -- Full path to the file in the guest to open.

            •   mode (string, optional) -- open mode, as per fopen(), "r" is the default.

        Return
            int -- Guest file handle

    Command guest-file-close (Since: 0.15.0)
        Close an open file in the guest

        Arguments

            •   handle (int) -- filehandle returned by guest-file-open

    Object GuestFileRead (Since: 0.15.0)
        Result of guest agent file-read operation

        Members

            •   count (int) -- number of bytes read (note: count is before base64-encoding is applied)

            •   buf-b64 (string) -- base64-encoded bytes read

            •   eof (boolean) -- whether EOF was encountered during read operation.

    Command guest-file-read (Since: 0.15.0)
        Read from an open file in the guest. Data will be base64-encoded. As this command is just for limited, ad-hoc debugging, such as log file access, the number of bytes to read is limited to 48 MB.

        Arguments

            •   handle (int) -- filehandle returned by guest-file-open

            •   count (int, optional) -- maximum number of bytes to read (default is 4KB, maximum is 48MB)

        Return
            GuestFileRead

    Object GuestFileWrite (Since: 0.15.0)
        Result of guest agent file-write operation

        Members

            •   count (int) -- number of bytes written (note: count is actual bytes written, after base64-decoding of provided buffer)

            •   eof (boolean) -- whether EOF was encountered during write operation.

    Command guest-file-write (Since: 0.15.0)
        Write to an open file in the guest.

        Arguments

            •   handle (int) -- filehandle returned by guest-file-open

            •   buf-b64 (string) -- base64-encoded string representing data to be written

            •   count (int, optional) -- bytes to write (actual bytes, after base64-decode), default is all content in buf-b64 buffer after base64 decoding

        Return
            GuestFileWrite

    Object GuestFileSeek (Since: 0.15.0)
        Result of guest agent file-seek operation

        Members

            •   position (int) -- current file position

            •   eof (boolean) -- whether EOF was encountered during file seek

    Enum QGASeek (Since: 2.6)
        Symbolic names for use in guest-file-seek

        Values

            •   set -- Set to the specified offset (same effect as 'whence':0)

            •   cur -- Add offset to the current location (same effect as 'whence':1)

            •   end -- Add offset to the end of the file (same effect as 'whence':2)

    Alternate GuestFileWhence (Since: 2.6)
        Controls the meaning of offset to guest-file-seek.

        Alternatives

            •   value (int) -- Integral value (0 for set, 1 for cur, 2 for end), available for historical reasons, and might differ from the host's or guest's SEEK_* values (since: 0.15)

            •   name (QGASeek) -- Symbolic name, and preferred interface

    Command guest-file-seek (Since: 0.15.0)
        Seek to a position in the file, as with fseek(), and return the current file position afterward. Also encapsulates ftell()'s functionality, with offset=0 and whence=1.

        Arguments

            •   handle (int) -- filehandle returned by guest-file-open

            •   offset (int) -- bytes to skip over in the file stream

            •   whence (GuestFileWhence) -- Symbolic or numeric code for interpreting offset

        Return
            GuestFileSeek

    Command guest-file-flush (Since: 0.15.0)
        Write file changes buffered in userspace to disk/kernel buffers

        Arguments

            •   handle (int) -- filehandle returned by guest-file-open

    Enum GuestFsfreezeStatus (Since: 0.15.0)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

        An enumeration of filesystem freeze states

        Values

            •   thawed -- filesystems thawed/unfrozen

            •   frozen -- all non-network guest filesystems frozen

    Command guest-fsfreeze-status (Since: 0.15.0)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

        Get guest fsfreeze state.

        Note:
            This may fail to properly report the current state as a result of some other guest processes having issued an fs freeze/thaw.

        Return
            GuestFsfreezeStatus

    Command guest-fsfreeze-freeze (Since: 0.15.0)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

        Sync and freeze all freezable, local guest filesystems. If this command succeeded, you may call guest-fsfreeze-thaw later to unfreeze.

        On error, all filesystems will be thawed. If no filesystems are frozen as a result of this call, then guest-fsfreeze-status will remain "thawed" and calling guest-fsfreeze-thaw is not necessary.

        Return
            int -- Number of file systems currently frozen.

    Note:
            On Windows, the command is implemented with the help of a Volume Shadow-copy Service DLL helper. The frozen state is limited for up to 10 seconds by VSS.

    Command guest-fsfreeze-freeze-list (Since: 2.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

        Sync and freeze specified guest filesystems. See also guest-fsfreeze-freeze.

        On error, all filesystems will be thawed.

        Arguments

            •   mountpoints ([string], optional) -- an array of mountpoints of filesystems to be frozen. If omitted, every mounted filesystem is frozen. Invalid mount points are ignored.

        Return
            int -- Number of file systems currently frozen.

    Command guest-fsfreeze-thaw (Since: 0.15.0)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

        Unfreeze all frozen guest filesystems

        Return
            int -- Number of file systems thawed by this call

    Note:
            If the return value does not match the previous call to guest-fsfreeze-freeze, this likely means some freezable filesystems were unfrozen before this call, and that the filesystem state may have changed before issuing this command.

    Object GuestFilesystemTrimResult (Since: 2.4)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSTRIM.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   path (string) -- path that was trimmed

        •   error (string, optional) -- an error message when trim failed

        •   trimmed (int, optional) -- bytes trimmed for this path

        •   minimum (int, optional) -- reported effective minimum for this path

    Object GuestFilesystemTrimResponse (Since: 2.4)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSTRIM.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   paths ([GuestFilesystemTrimResult]) -- list of GuestFilesystemTrimResult per path that was trimmed

    Command guest-fstrim (Since: 1.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSTRIM

        Discard (or "trim") blocks which are not in use by the filesystem.

        Arguments

            •   minimum (int, optional) -- Minimum contiguous free range to discard, in bytes. Free ranges smaller than this may be ignored (this is a hint and the guest may not respect it). By increasing this value, the fstrim operation will complete more quickly for filesystems with badly fragmented free space, although not all blocks will be discarded. The default value is zero, meaning "discard every free block".

        Return
            GuestFilesystemTrimResponse -- status of all trimmed paths. (since 2.4)

    Command guest-suspend-disk (Since: 1.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

        Suspend guest to disk.

        This command attempts to suspend the guest using three strategies, in this order:

        •   systemd hibernate

        •   pm-utils (via pm-hibernate)

        •   manual write into sysfs

    This command does NOT return a response on success. There is a high chance the command succeeded if the VM exits with a zero exit status or, when running with --no-shutdown, by issuing the query-status <#command-QMP-run-state.query-status> QMP command to to confirm the VM status is "shutdown". However, the VM could also exit (or set its status to "shutdown") due to other reasons.

        Errors

            •   If suspend to disk is not supported, Unsupported

    Note:
            It's strongly recommended to issue the guest-sync command before sending commands when the guest resumes.

    Command guest-suspend-ram (Since: 1.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

        Suspend guest to ram.

        This command attempts to suspend the guest using three strategies, in this order:

        •   systemd hibernate

        •   pm-utils (via pm-hibernate)

        •   manual write into sysfs

    IMPORTANT: guest-suspend-ram requires working wakeup support in QEMU. You should check QMP command query-current-machine <#command-QMP-machine.query-current-machine> returns wakeup-suspend-support: true before issuing this command. Failure in doing so can result in a suspended guest that QEMU will not be able to awaken, forcing the user to power cycle the guest to bring it back.

    This command does NOT return a response on success. There are two options to check for success:

        1.  Wait for the SUSPEND <#event-QMP-run-state.SUSPEND> QMP event from QEMU

        2.  Issue the query-status <#command-QMP-run-state.query-status> QMP command to confirm the VM status is "suspended"

        Errors

            •   If suspend to ram is not supported, Unsupported

    Note:
            It's strongly recommended to issue the guest-sync command before sending commands when the guest resumes.

    Command guest-suspend-hybrid (Since: 1.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Save guest state to disk and suspend to ram.

        This command attempts to suspend the guest by executing, in this order:

        •   systemd hybrid-sleep

        •   pm-utils (via pm-suspend-hybrid)

    IMPORTANT: guest-suspend-hybrid requires working wakeup support in QEMU. You should check QMP command query-current-machine <#command-QMP-machine.query-current-machine> returns wakeup-suspend-support: true before issuing this command. Failure in doing so can result in a suspended guest that QEMU will not be able to awaken, forcing the user to power cycle the guest to bring it back.

    This command does NOT return a response on success. There are two options to check for success:

        1.  Wait for the SUSPEND <#event-QMP-run-state.SUSPEND> QMP event from QEMU

        2.  Issue the query-status <#command-QMP-run-state.query-status> QMP command to confirm the VM status is "suspended"

        Errors

            •   If hybrid suspend is not supported, Unsupported

    Note:
            It's strongly recommended to issue the guest-sync command before sending commands when the guest resumes.

    Enum GuestIpAddressType (Since: 1.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS

        An enumeration of supported IP address types

        Values

            •   ipv4 -- IP version 4

            •   ipv6 -- IP version 6

    Object GuestIpAddress (Since: 1.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   ip-address (string) -- IP address

        •   ip-address-type (GuestIpAddressType) -- Type of ip-address (e.g. ipv4, ipv6)

        •   prefix (int) -- Network prefix length of ip-address

    Object GuestNetworkInterfaceStat (Since: 2.11)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   rx-bytes (int) -- total bytes received

        •   rx-packets (int) -- total packets received

        •   rx-errs (int) -- bad packets received

        •   rx-dropped (int) -- receiver dropped packets

        •   tx-bytes (int) -- total bytes transmitted

        •   tx-packets (int) -- total packets transmitted

        •   tx-errs (int) -- packet transmit problems

        •   tx-dropped (int) -- dropped packets transmitted

    Object GuestNetworkInterface (Since: 1.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   name (string) -- The name of interface for which info are being delivered

        •   hardware-address (string, optional) -- Hardware address of name

        •   ip-addresses ([GuestIpAddress], optional) -- List of addresses assigned to name

        •   statistics (GuestNetworkInterfaceStat, optional) -- various statistic counters related to name (since 2.11)

    Command guest-network-get-interfaces (Since: 1.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS

        Get list of guest IP addresses, MAC addresses and netmasks.

        Return
            [GuestNetworkInterface]

    Object GuestLogicalProcessor (Since: 1.5)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   logical-id (int) -- Arbitrary guest-specific unique identifier of the VCPU.

        •   online (boolean) -- Whether the VCPU is enabled.

        •   can-offline (boolean, optional) -- Whether offlining the VCPU is possible. This member is always filled in by the guest agent when the structure is returned, and always ignored on input (hence it can be omitted then).

    Command guest-get-vcpus (Since: 1.5)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

        Retrieve the list of the guest's logical processors.

        This is a read-only operation.

        Return
            [GuestLogicalProcessor] -- The list of all VCPUs the guest knows about. Each VCPU is put on the list exactly once, but their order is unspecified.

    Command guest-set-vcpus (Since: 1.5)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Attempt to reconfigure (currently: enable/disable) logical processors inside the guest.

        Arguments

            •   vcpus ([GuestLogicalProcessor]) -- The logical processors to be reconfigured. This list is processed node by node in order. In each node logical-id is used to look up the guest VCPU, for which online specifies the requested state. The set of distinct logical-id's is only required to be a subset of the guest-supported identifiers. There's no restriction on list length or on repeating the same logical-id (with possibly different online field). Preferably the input list should describe a modified subset of guest-get-vcpus' return value.

        Return
            int --

            The length of the initial sublist that has been successfully processed. The guest agent maximizes this value. Possible cases:

            •   0: if the vcpus list was empty on input. Guest state has not been changed. Otherwise,

            •   < length(vcpus): more than zero initial nodes have been processed, but not the entire vcpus list. Guest state has changed accordingly. To retrieve the error (assuming it persists), repeat the call with the successfully processed initial sublist removed. Otherwise,

            •   length(vcpus): call successful.

        Errors

            •   If the reconfiguration of the first node in vcpus failed. Guest state has not been changed.

    Enum GuestDiskBusType (Since: 2.2; 'Unknown' and all entries below since 2.4)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX

        An enumeration of bus type of disks

        Values

            •   ide -- IDE disks

            •   fdc -- floppy disks

            •   scsi -- SCSI disks

            •   virtio -- virtio disks

            •   xen -- Xen disks

            •   usb -- USB disks

            •   uml -- UML disks

            •   sata -- SATA disks

            •   sd -- SD cards

            •   unknown -- Unknown bus type

            •   ieee1394 -- Win IEEE 1394 bus type

            •   ssa -- Win SSA bus type

            •   fibre -- Win fiber channel bus type

            •   raid -- Win RAID bus type

            •   iscsi -- Win iScsi bus type

            •   sas -- Win serial-attaches SCSI bus type

            •   mmc -- Win multimedia card (MMC) bus type

            •   virtual -- Win virtual bus type

            •   file-backed-virtual -- Win file-backed bus type

            •   nvme -- NVMe disks (since 7.1)

    Object GuestPCIAddress (Since: 2.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   domain (int) -- domain id

        •   bus (int) -- bus id

        •   slot (int) -- slot id

        •   function (int) -- function id

    Object GuestCCWAddress (Since: 6.0)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   cssid (int) -- channel subsystem image id

        •   ssid (int) -- subchannel set id

        •   subchno (int) -- subchannel number

        •   devno (int) -- device number

    Object GuestDiskAddress (Since: 2.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   pci-controller (GuestPCIAddress) -- controller's PCI address (fields are set to -1 if invalid)

        •   bus-type (GuestDiskBusType) -- bus type

        •   bus (int) -- bus id

        •   target (int) -- target id

        •   unit (int) -- unit id

        •   serial (string, optional) -- serial number (since: 3.1)

        •   dev (string, optional) -- device node (POSIX) or device UNC (Windows) (since: 3.1)

        •   ccw-address (GuestCCWAddress, optional) -- CCW address on s390x (since: 6.0)

    Object GuestNVMeSmart (Since: 7.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LIBUDEV

        NVMe smart information, based on NVMe specification, section <SMART / Health Information (Log Identifier 02h)>

        Members

            •   critical-warning (int) -- Not documented

            •   temperature (int) -- Not documented

            •   available-spare (int) -- Not documented

            •   available-spare-threshold (int) -- Not documented

            •   percentage-used (int) -- Not documented

            •   data-units-read-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   data-units-read-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   data-units-written-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   data-units-written-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   host-read-commands-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   host-read-commands-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   host-write-commands-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   host-write-commands-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   controller-busy-time-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   controller-busy-time-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   power-cycles-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   power-cycles-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   power-on-hours-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   power-on-hours-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   unsafe-shutdowns-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   unsafe-shutdowns-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   media-errors-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   media-errors-hi (int) -- Not documented

            •   number-of-error-log-entries-lo (int) -- Not documented

            •   number-of-error-log-entries-hi (int) -- Not documented

    Object GuestDiskSmart (Since: 7.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LIBUDEV

        Disk type related smart information.

        Members

            •   type (GuestDiskBusType) -- disk bus type

            •   When type is nvme: The members of GuestNVMeSmart.

    Object GuestDiskInfo (Since: 5.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LIBUDEV.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   name (string) -- device node (Linux) or device UNC (Windows)

        •   partition (boolean) -- whether this is a partition or disk

        •   dependencies ([string], optional) -- list of device dependencies; e.g. for LVs of the LVM this will hold the list of PVs, for LUKS encrypted volume this will contain the disk where the volume is placed. (Linux)

        •   address (GuestDiskAddress, optional) -- disk address information (only for non-virtual devices)

        •   alias (string, optional) -- optional alias assigned to the disk, on Linux this is a name assigned by device mapper

        •   smart (GuestDiskSmart, optional) -- disk smart information (Since 7.1)

    Command guest-get-disks (Since: 5.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LIBUDEV.INDENT 7.0

    Return
        [GuestDiskInfo] -- The list of disks in the guest. For Windows these are only the physical disks. On Linux these are all root block devices of non-zero size including e.g. removable devices, loop devices, NBD, etc.

    Object GuestFilesystemInfo (Since: 2.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   name (string) -- disk name

        •   mountpoint (string) -- mount point path

        •   type (string) -- file system type string

        •   used-bytes (int, optional) -- file system used bytes (since 3.0)

        •   total-bytes (int, optional) -- filesystem capacity in bytes for unprivileged users (since 3.0)

        •   total-bytes-privileged (int, optional) -- filesystem capacity in bytes for privileged users (since 9.1)

        •   disk ([GuestDiskAddress]) -- an array of disk hardware information that the volume lies on, which may be empty if the disk type is not supported

    Command guest-get-fsinfo (Since: 2.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Return
        [GuestFilesystemInfo] -- The list of filesystems information mounted in the guest. The returned mountpoints may be specified to guest-fsfreeze-freeze-list. Network filesystems (such as CIFS and NFS) are not listed.

    Command guest-set-user-password (Since: 2.3)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_FREEBSD.INDENT 7.0

    Arguments

        •   username (string) -- the user account whose password to change

        •   password (string) -- the new password entry string, base64 encoded

        •   crypted (boolean) -- true if password is already crypt()d, false if raw

If the crypted flag is true, it is the caller's responsibility to ensure the correct crypt() encryption scheme is used. This command does not attempt to interpret or report on the encryption scheme. Refer to the documentation of the guest operating system in question to determine what is supported.

Not all guest operating systems will support use of the crypted flag, as they may require the clear-text password

The password parameter must always be base64 encoded before transmission, even if already crypt()d, to ensure it is 8-bit safe when passed as JSON.

    Object GuestMemoryBlock (Since: 2.3)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   phys-index (int) -- Arbitrary guest-specific unique identifier of the MEMORY BLOCK.

        •   online (boolean) -- Whether the MEMORY BLOCK is enabled in guest.

        •   can-offline (boolean, optional) -- Whether offlining the MEMORY BLOCK is possible. This member is always filled in by the guest agent when the structure is returned, and always ignored on input (hence it can be omitted then).

    Command guest-get-memory-blocks (Since: 2.3)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Retrieve the list of the guest's memory blocks.

        This is a read-only operation.

        Return
            [GuestMemoryBlock] -- The list of all memory blocks the guest knows about. Each memory block is put on the list exactly once, but their order is unspecified.

    Enum GuestMemoryBlockResponseType (Since: 2.3)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        An enumeration of memory block operation result.

        Values

            •   success -- the operation of online/offline memory block is successful.

            •   not-found -- can't find the corresponding memoryXXX directory in sysfs.

            •   operation-not-supported -- for some old kernels, it does not support online or offline memory block.

            •   operation-failed -- the operation of online/offline memory block fails, because of some errors happen.

    Object GuestMemoryBlockResponse (Since: 2.3)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   phys-index (int) -- same with the 'phys-index' member of GuestMemoryBlock.

        •   response (GuestMemoryBlockResponseType) -- the result of memory block operation.

        •   error-code (int, optional) -- the error number. When memory block operation fails, we assign the value of 'errno' to this member, it indicates what goes wrong. When the operation succeeds, it will be omitted.

    Command guest-set-memory-blocks (Since: 2.3)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Attempt to reconfigure (currently: enable/disable) state of memory blocks inside the guest.

        Arguments

            •   mem-blks ([GuestMemoryBlock]) -- The memory blocks to be reconfigured. This list is processed node by node in order. In each node phys-index is used to look up the guest MEMORY BLOCK, for which online specifies the requested state. The set of distinct phys-index's is only required to be a subset of the guest-supported identifiers. There's no restriction on list length or on repeating the same phys-index (with possibly different online field). Preferably the input list should describe a modified subset of guest-get-memory-blocks' return value.

        Return
            [GuestMemoryBlockResponse] --

            The operation results, it is a list of GuestMemoryBlockResponse, which is corresponding to the input list.

            Note: it will return an empty list if the mem-blks list was empty on input, or there is an error, and in this case, guest state will not be changed.

    Object GuestMemoryBlockInfo (Since: 2.3)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   size (int) -- the size (in bytes) of the guest memory blocks, which are the minimal units of memory block online/offline operations (also called Logical Memory Hotplug).

    Command guest-get-memory-block-info (Since: 2.3)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Get information relating to guest memory blocks.

        Return
            GuestMemoryBlockInfo

    Object GuestExecStatus (Since: 2.5)

        Members

            •   exited (boolean) -- true if process has already terminated.

            •   exitcode (int, optional) -- process exit code if it was normally terminated.

            •   signal (int, optional) -- signal number (linux) or unhandled exception code (windows) if the process was abnormally terminated.

            •   out-data (string, optional) -- base64-encoded stdout of the process. This field will only be populated after the process exits.

            •   err-data (string, optional) -- base64-encoded stderr of the process. Note: out-data and err-data are present only if 'capture-output' was specified for guest-exec. This field will only be populated after the process exits.

            •   out-truncated (boolean, optional) -- true if stdout was not fully captured due to size limitation.

            •   err-truncated (boolean, optional) -- true if stderr was not fully captured due to size limitation.

    Command guest-exec-status (Since: 2.5)
        Check status of process associated with PID retrieved via guest-exec. Reap the process and associated metadata if it has exited.

        Arguments

            •   pid (int) -- pid returned from guest-exec

        Return
            GuestExecStatus

    Object GuestExec (Since: 2.5)

        Members

            •   pid (int) -- pid of child process in guest OS

    Enum GuestExecCaptureOutputMode (Since: 8.0)
        An enumeration of guest-exec capture modes.

        Values

            •   none -- do not capture any output

            •   stdout -- only capture stdout

            •   stderr -- only capture stderr

            •   separated -- capture both stdout and stderr, but separated into GuestExecStatus out-data and err-data, respectively

            •   merged -- capture both stdout and stderr, but merge together into out-data. Not effective on windows guests.

    Alternate GuestExecCaptureOutput (Since: 8.0)
        Controls what guest-exec output gets captures.

        Alternatives

            •   flag (boolean) -- captures both stdout and stderr if true. Equivalent to GuestExecCaptureOutputMode::all. (since 2.5)

            •   mode (GuestExecCaptureOutputMode) -- capture mode; preferred interface

    Command guest-exec (Since: 2.5)
        Execute a command in the guest

        Arguments

            •   path (string) -- path or executable name to execute

            •   arg ([string], optional) -- argument list to pass to executable

            •   env ([string], optional) -- environment variables to pass to executable

            •   input-data (string, optional) -- data to be passed to process stdin (base64 encoded)

            •   capture-output (GuestExecCaptureOutput, optional) -- bool flag to enable capture of stdout/stderr of running process. Defaults to false.

        Return
            GuestExec -- PID

    Object GuestHostName (Since: 2.10)

        Members

            •   host-name (string) -- Fully qualified domain name of the guest OS

    Command guest-get-host-name (Since: 2.10)
        Return a name for the machine.

        The returned name is not necessarily a fully-qualified domain name, or even present in DNS or some other name service at all. It need not even be unique on your local network or site, but usually it is.

        Return
            GuestHostName -- the host name of the machine

    Object GuestUser (Since: 2.10)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_UTMPX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   user (string) -- Username

        •   domain (string, optional) -- Logon domain (windows only)

        •   login-time (number) -- Time of login of this user on the computer. If multiple instances of the user are logged in, the earliest login time is reported. The value is in fractional seconds since epoch time.

    Command guest-get-users (Since: 2.10)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_UTMPX

        Retrieves a list of currently active users on the VM.

        Return
            [GuestUser] -- A unique list of users.

    Object GuestTimezone (Since: 2.10)

        Members

            •   zone (string, optional) -- Timezone name. These values may differ depending on guest/OS and should only be used for informational purposes.

            •   offset (int) -- Offset to UTC in seconds, negative numbers for time zones west of GMT, positive numbers for east

    Command guest-get-timezone (Since: 2.10)
        Retrieves the timezone information from the guest.

        Return
            GuestTimezone

    Object GuestOSInfo (Since: 2.10)

        Members

            •   kernel-release (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

            •   POSIX: release field returned by uname(2)

            •   Windows: build number of the OS

        •   kernel-version (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

        •   POSIX: version field returned by uname(2)

        •   Windows: version number of the OS

    •   machine (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

    •   POSIX: machine field returned by uname(2)

    •   Windows: one of x86, x86_64, arm, ia64

•   id (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

•   POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

•   Windows: contains string "mswindows"

•   name (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

•   POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

•   Windows: contains string "Microsoft Windows"

•   pretty-name (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

•   POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

•   Windows: product name, e.g. "Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise"

•   version (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

•   POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

•   Windows: long version string, e.g. "Microsoft Windows Server 2008"

•   version-id (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

•   POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

•   Windows: short version identifier, e.g. "7" or "20012r2"

•   variant (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

•   POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

•   Windows: contains string "server" or "client"

•   variant-id (string, optional) -- .INDENT 2.0

•   POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

•   Windows: contains string "server" or "client"

Note:
        On POSIX systems the fields id, name, pretty-name, version, version-id, variant and variant-id follow the definition specified in os-release(5). Refer to the manual page for exact description of the fields. Their values are taken from the os-release file. If the file is not present in the system, or the values are not present in the file, the fields are not included.

        On Windows the values are filled from information gathered from the system.

    Command guest-get-osinfo (Since: 2.10)
        Retrieve guest operating system information

        Return
            GuestOSInfo

    Enum GuestDeviceType
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32.INDENT 7.0

    Values

        •   pci -- PCI device

    Object GuestDeviceIdPCI (Since: 5.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   vendor-id (int) -- vendor ID

        •   device-id (int) -- device ID

    Object GuestDeviceId (Since: 5.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32

        Id of the device

        Members

            •   type (GuestDeviceType) -- device type

            •   When type is pci: The members of GuestDeviceIdPCI.

    Object GuestDeviceInfo (Since: 5.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   driver-name (string) -- name of the associated driver

        •   driver-date (int, optional) -- driver release date, in nanoseconds since the epoch

        •   driver-version (string, optional) -- driver version

        •   id (GuestDeviceId, optional) -- device ID

    Command guest-get-devices (Since: 5.2)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32

        Retrieve information about device drivers in Windows guest

        Return
            [GuestDeviceInfo]

    Object GuestAuthorizedKeys (Since: 5.2)

        Members

            •   keys ([string]) -- public keys (in OpenSSH/sshd(8) authorized_keys format)

    Command guest-ssh-get-authorized-keys (Since: 5.2)
        Return the public keys from user .ssh/authorized_keys on Unix systems (not implemented for other systems).

        Arguments

            •   username (string) -- the user account to add the authorized keys

        Return
            GuestAuthorizedKeys

    Command guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys (Since: 5.2)
        Append public keys to user .ssh/authorized_keys on Unix systems (not implemented for other systems).

        Arguments

            •   username (string) -- the user account to add the authorized keys

            •   keys ([string]) -- the public keys to add (in OpenSSH/sshd(8) authorized_keys format)

            •   reset (boolean, optional) -- ignore the existing content, set it with the given keys only

    Command guest-ssh-remove-authorized-keys (Since: 5.2)
        Remove public keys from the user .ssh/authorized_keys on Unix systems (not implemented for other systems). It's not an error if the key is already missing.

        Arguments

            •   username (string) -- the user account to remove the authorized keys

            •   keys ([string]) -- the public keys to remove (in OpenSSH/sshd(8) authorized_keys format)

    Object GuestDiskStats (Since: 7.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   read-sectors (int, optional) -- sectors read

        •   read-ios (int, optional) -- reads completed successfully

        •   read-merges (int, optional) -- read requests merged

        •   write-sectors (int, optional) -- sectors written

        •   write-ios (int, optional) -- writes completed

        •   write-merges (int, optional) -- write requests merged

        •   discard-sectors (int, optional) -- sectors discarded

        •   discard-ios (int, optional) -- discards completed successfully

        •   discard-merges (int, optional) -- discard requests merged

        •   flush-ios (int, optional) -- flush requests completed successfully

        •   read-ticks (int, optional) -- time spent reading(ms)

        •   write-ticks (int, optional) -- time spent writing(ms)

        •   discard-ticks (int, optional) -- time spent discarding(ms)

        •   flush-ticks (int, optional) -- time spent flushing(ms)

        •   ios-pgr (int, optional) -- number of I/Os currently in flight

        •   total-ticks (int, optional) -- time spent doing I/Os (ms)

        •   weight-ticks (int, optional) -- weighted time spent doing I/Os since the last update of this field(ms)

    Object GuestDiskStatsInfo
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX.INDENT 7.0

    Members

        •   name (string) -- disk name

        •   major (int) -- major device number of disk

        •   minor (int) -- minor device number of disk

        •   stats (GuestDiskStats) -- I/O statistics

    Command guest-get-diskstats (Since: 7.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Retrieve information about disk stats.

        Return
            [GuestDiskStatsInfo] -- List of disk stats of guest.

    Enum GuestCpuStatsType (Since: 7.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Guest operating systems supporting CPU statistics

        Values

            •   linux -- Linux

    Object GuestLinuxCpuStats (Since: 7.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        CPU statistics of Linux

        Members

            •   cpu (int) -- CPU index in guest OS

            •   user (int) -- Time spent in user mode

            •   nice (int) -- Time spent in user mode with low priority (nice)

            •   system (int) -- Time spent in system mode

            •   idle (int) -- Time spent in the idle task

            •   iowait (int, optional) -- Time waiting for I/O to complete (since Linux 2.5.41)

            •   irq (int, optional) -- Time servicing interrupts (since Linux 2.6.0-test4)

            •   softirq (int, optional) -- Time servicing softirqs (since Linux 2.6.0-test4)

            •   steal (int, optional) -- Stolen time by host (since Linux 2.6.11)

            •   guest (int, optional) -- ime spent running a virtual CPU for guest operating systems under the control of the Linux kernel (since Linux 2.6.24)

            •   guestnice (int, optional) -- Time spent running a niced guest (since Linux 2.6.33)

    Object GuestCpuStats (Since: 7.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Get statistics of each CPU in millisecond.

        Members

            •   type (GuestCpuStatsType) -- guest operating system

            •   When type is linux: The members of GuestLinuxCpuStats.

    Command guest-get-cpustats (Since: 7.1)
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX

        Retrieve information about CPU stats.

        Return
            [GuestCpuStats] -- List of CPU stats of guest.

    Object GuestLoadAverage (Since: 10.0)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_GETLOADAVG

        Statistics about process load information

        Members

            •   load1m (number) -- 1-minute load avage

            •   load5m (number) -- 5-minute load avage

            •   load15m (number) -- 15-minute load avage

    Command guest-get-load (Since: 10.0)
        Availability: CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_GETLOADAVG

        Retrieve CPU process load information

        Note:
            Windows does not have load average API, so QGA emulates it by calculating the average CPU usage in the last 1, 5, 15 minutes similar as Linux does this. Calculation starts from the first time this command is called.

        Return
            GuestLoadAverage -- load information

    Object GuestNetworkRoute (Since: 9.1 (Linux only); 11.0 (Windows))
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

        Route information. Supported on Linux (since 9.1) and Windows (since 11.0).

        Members

            •   iface (string) -- The destination network or host's egress network interface in the routing table

            •   destination (string) -- The IP address of the target network or host, The final destination of the packet

            •   metric (int) -- Route metric

            •   gateway (string, optional) -- The IP address of the next hop router

            •   mask (string, optional) -- Subnet Mask (IPv4 only)

            •   irtt (int, optional) -- Initial round-trip delay (not for windows, IPv4 only)

            •   flags (int, optional) -- Route flags (not for windows)

            •   refcnt (int, optional) -- The route's reference count (not for windows)

            •   use (int, optional) -- Route usage count (not for windows)

            •   window (int, optional) -- TCP window size, used for flow control (not for windows, IPv4 only)

            •   mtu (int, optional) -- Data link layer maximum packet size (not for windows)

            •   desprefixlen (string, optional) -- Destination prefix length (for IPv6)

            •   source (string, optional) -- Source IP address (for IPv6)

            •   srcprefixlen (string, optional) -- Source prefix length (for IPv6)

            •   nexthop (string, optional) -- Next hop IP address (for IPv6)

            •   version (int) -- IP version (4 or 6)

    Command guest-network-get-route (Since: 9.1 (Linux only); 11.0 (Windows))
        Availability: CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

        Retrieve information about route of network.

        Return
            [GuestNetworkRoute] -- List of route info of guest.

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