QEMU Guest Agent Protocol Reference

General note concerning the use of guest agent interfaces

“unsupported” is a higher-level error than the errors that individual commands might document. The caller should always be prepared to receive QERR_UNSUPPORTED, even if the given command doesn’t specify it, or doesn’t document any failure mode at all.

QEMU guest agent protocol commands and structs

guest-sync-delimited (Command)

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

Returns

The unique integer id passed in by the client

Since

1.1

guest-sync (Command)

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

Returns

The unique integer id passed in by the client

Since

0.15.0

guest-ping (Command)

Ping the guest agent, a non-error return implies success

Since

0.15.0

guest-get-time (Command)

Get the information about guest’s System Time relative to the Epoch of 1970-01-01 in UTC.

Returns

Time in nanoseconds.

Since

1.5

guest-set-time (Command)

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.

Since

1.5

GuestAgentCommandInfo (Object)

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)

Since

1.1.0

GuestAgentInfo (Object)

Information about guest agent.

Members

version: string

guest agent version

supported_commands: array of GuestAgentCommandInfo

Information about guest agent commands

Since

0.15.0

guest-info (Command)

Get some information about the guest agent.

Returns

GuestAgentInfo

Since

0.15.0

guest-shutdown (Command)

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 QMP command to confirm the VM status is “shutdown”.

Since

0.15.0

guest-file-open (Command)

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.

Returns

Guest file handle

Since

0.15.0

guest-file-close (Command)

Close an open file in the guest

Arguments

handle: int

filehandle returned by guest-file-open

Since

0.15.0

GuestFileRead (Object)

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.

Since

0.15.0

guest-file-read (Command)

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)

Returns

GuestFileRead

Since

0.15.0

GuestFileWrite (Object)

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.

Since

0.15.0

guest-file-write (Command)

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

Returns

GuestFileWrite

Since

0.15.0

GuestFileSeek (Object)

Result of guest agent file-seek operation

Members

position: int

current file position

eof: boolean

whether EOF was encountered during file seek

Since

0.15.0

QGASeek (Enum)

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)

Since

2.6

GuestFileWhence (Alternate)

Controls the meaning of offset to guest-file-seek.

Members

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

Since

2.6

guest-file-seek (Command)

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

Returns

GuestFileSeek

Since

0.15.0

guest-file-flush (Command)

Write file changes buffered in userspace to disk/kernel buffers

Arguments

handle: int

filehandle returned by guest-file-open

Since

0.15.0

GuestFsfreezeStatus (Enum)

An enumeration of filesystem freeze states

Values

thawed

filesystems thawed/unfrozen

frozen

all non-network guest filesystems frozen

Since

0.15.0

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

guest-fsfreeze-status (Command)

Get guest fsfreeze state.

Returns

GuestFsfreezeStatus (“thawed”, “frozen”, etc., as defined below)

Note

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

Since

0.15.0

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

guest-fsfreeze-freeze (Command)

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.

Returns

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.

Since

0.15.0

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

guest-fsfreeze-freeze-list (Command)

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

On error, all filesystems will be thawed.

Arguments

mountpoints: array of string (optional)

an array of mountpoints of filesystems to be frozen. If omitted, every mounted filesystem is frozen. Invalid mount points are ignored.

Returns

Number of file systems currently frozen.

Since

2.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

guest-fsfreeze-thaw (Command)

Unfreeze all frozen guest filesystems

Returns

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.

Since

0.15.0

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSFREEZE

GuestFilesystemTrimResult (Object)

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

Since

2.4

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSTRIM

GuestFilesystemTrimResponse (Object)

Members

paths: array of GuestFilesystemTrimResult

list of GuestFilesystemTrimResult per path that was trimmed

Since

2.4

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSTRIM

guest-fstrim (Command)

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”.

Returns

A GuestFilesystemTrimResponse which contains the status of all trimmed paths. (since 2.4)

Since

1.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_FSTRIM

guest-suspend-disk (Command)

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 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.

Since

1.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

guest-suspend-ram (Command)

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 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 QMP event from QEMU

2. Issue the 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.

Since

1.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

guest-suspend-hybrid (Command)

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 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 QMP event from QEMU

2. Issue the 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.

Since

1.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestIpAddressType (Enum)

An enumeration of supported IP address types

Values

ipv4

IP version 4

ipv6

IP version 6

Since

1.1

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS

GuestIpAddress (Object)

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

Since

1.1

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS

GuestNetworkInterfaceStat (Object)

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

Since

2.11

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS

GuestNetworkInterface (Object)

Members

name: string

The name of interface for which info are being delivered

hardware-address: string (optional)

Hardware address of name

ip-addresses: array of GuestIpAddress (optional)

List of addresses assigned to name

statistics: GuestNetworkInterfaceStat (optional)

various statistic counters related to name (since 2.11)

Since

1.1

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS

guest-network-get-interfaces (Command)

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

Returns

List of GuestNetworkInterface

Since

1.1

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_GETIFADDRS

GuestLogicalProcessor (Object)

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).

Since

1.5

If

CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

guest-get-vcpus (Command)

Retrieve the list of the guest’s logical processors.

This is a read-only operation.

Returns

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

Since

1.5

If

CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_WIN32

guest-set-vcpus (Command)

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

Arguments

vcpus: array of 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.

Returns

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.

Since

1.5

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestDiskBusType (Enum)

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)

Since

2.2; ‘Unknown’ and all entries below since 2.4

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX

GuestPCIAddress (Object)

Members

domain: int

domain id

bus: int

bus id

slot: int

slot id

function: int

function id

Since

2.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX

GuestCCWAddress (Object)

Members

cssid: int

channel subsystem image id

ssid: int

subchannel set id

subchno: int

subchannel number

devno: int

device number

Since

6.0

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX

GuestDiskAddress (Object)

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)

Since

2.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX

GuestNVMeSmart (Object)

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

Since

7.1

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LIBUDEV

GuestDiskSmart (Object)

Disk type related smart information.

Members

type: GuestDiskBusType

disk bus type

The members of GuestNVMeSmart when type is "nvme"

Since

7.1

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LIBUDEV

GuestDiskInfo (Object)

Members

name: string

device node (Linux) or device UNC (Windows)

partition: boolean

whether this is a partition or disk

dependencies: array of 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)

Since

5.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LIBUDEV

guest-get-disks (Command)

Returns

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.

Since

5.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LIBUDEV

GuestFilesystemInfo (Object)

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: array of GuestDiskAddress

an array of disk hardware information that the volume lies on, which may be empty if the disk type is not supported

Since

2.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX

guest-get-fsinfo (Command)

Returns

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.

Since

2.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX

guest-set-user-password (Command)

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.

Since

2.3

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or CONFIG_LINUX or CONFIG_FREEBSD

GuestMemoryBlock (Object)

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).

Since

2.3

If

CONFIG_LINUX

guest-get-memory-blocks (Command)

Retrieve the list of the guest’s memory blocks.

This is a read-only operation.

Returns

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.

Since

2.3

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestMemoryBlockResponseType (Enum)

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.

Since

2.3

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestMemoryBlockResponse (Object)

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.

Since

2.3

If

CONFIG_LINUX

guest-set-memory-blocks (Command)

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

Arguments

mem-blks: array of 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.

Returns

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.

Since

2.3

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestMemoryBlockInfo (Object)

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).

Since

2.3

If

CONFIG_LINUX

guest-get-memory-block-info (Command)

Get information relating to guest memory blocks.

Returns

GuestMemoryBlockInfo

Since

2.3

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestExecStatus (Object)

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.

Since

2.5

guest-exec-status (Command)

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

Returns

GuestExecStatus

Since

2.5

GuestExec (Object)

Members

pid: int

pid of child process in guest OS

Since

2.5

GuestExecCaptureOutputMode (Enum)

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 (If: not CONFIG_WIN32)

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

Since

8.0

GuestExecCaptureOutput (Alternate)

Controls what guest-exec output gets captures.

Members

flag: boolean

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

mode: GuestExecCaptureOutputMode

capture mode; preferred interface

Since

8.0

guest-exec (Command)

Execute a command in the guest

Arguments

path: string

path or executable name to execute

arg: array of string (optional)

argument list to pass to executable

env: array of 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.

Returns

PID

Since

2.5

GuestHostName (Object)

Members

host-name: string

Fully qualified domain name of the guest OS

Since

2.10

guest-get-host-name (Command)

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.

Returns

the host name of the machine

Since

2.10

GuestUser (Object)

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.

Since

2.10

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_UTMPX

guest-get-users (Command)

Retrieves a list of currently active users on the VM.

Returns

A unique list of users.

Since

2.10

If

CONFIG_WIN32 or HAVE_UTMPX

GuestTimezone (Object)

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

Since

2.10

guest-get-timezone (Command)

Retrieves the timezone information from the guest.

Returns

A GuestTimezone dictionary.

Since

2.10

GuestOSInfo (Object)

Members

kernel-release: string (optional)

• POSIX: release field returned by uname(2)

• Windows: build number of the OS

kernel-version: string (optional)

• POSIX: version field returned by uname(2)

• Windows: version number of the OS

machine: string (optional)

• POSIX: machine field returned by uname(2)

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

id: string (optional)

• POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

• Windows: contains string “mswindows”

name: string (optional)

• POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

• Windows: contains string “Microsoft Windows”

pretty-name: string (optional)

• POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

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

version: string (optional)

• POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

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

version-id: string (optional)

• POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

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

variant: string (optional)

• POSIX: as defined by os-release(5)

• Windows: contains string “server” or “client”

variant-id: string (optional)

• 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.

Since

2.10

guest-get-osinfo (Command)

Retrieve guest operating system information

Returns

GuestOSInfo

Since

2.10

GuestDeviceType (Enum)

Values

pci

PCI device

If

CONFIG_WIN32

GuestDeviceIdPCI (Object)

Members

vendor-id: int

vendor ID

device-id: int

device ID

Since

5.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32

GuestDeviceId (Object)

Id of the device

Members

type: GuestDeviceType

device type

The members of GuestDeviceIdPCI when type is "pci"

Since

5.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32

GuestDeviceInfo (Object)

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

Since

5.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32

guest-get-devices (Command)

Retrieve information about device drivers in Windows guest

Returns

GuestDeviceInfo

Since

5.2

If

CONFIG_WIN32

GuestAuthorizedKeys (Object)

Members

keys: array of string

public keys (in OpenSSH/sshd(8) authorized_keys format)

Since

5.2

guest-ssh-get-authorized-keys (Command)

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

Returns

GuestAuthorizedKeys

Since

5.2

guest-ssh-add-authorized-keys (Command)

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: array of 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

Since

5.2

guest-ssh-remove-authorized-keys (Command)

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: array of string

the public keys to remove (in OpenSSH/sshd(8) authorized_keys format)

Since

5.2

GuestDiskStats (Object)

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)

Since

7.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestDiskStatsInfo (Object)

Members

name: string

disk name

major: int

major device number of disk

minor: int

minor device number of disk

stats: GuestDiskStats

I/O statistics

If

CONFIG_LINUX

guest-get-diskstats (Command)

Retrieve information about disk stats.

Returns

List of disk stats of guest.

Since

7.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestCpuStatsType (Enum)

Guest operating systems supporting CPU statistics

Values

linux

Linux

Since

7.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestLinuxCpuStats (Object)

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)

Since

7.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestCpuStats (Object)

Get statistics of each CPU in millisecond.

Members

type: GuestCpuStatsType

guest operating system

The members of GuestLinuxCpuStats when type is "linux"

Since

7.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX

guest-get-cpustats (Command)

Retrieve information about CPU stats.

Returns

List of CPU stats of guest.

Since

7.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX

GuestNetworkRoute (Object)

Route information, currently, only linux supported.

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)

Since

9.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX

guest-network-get-route (Command)

Retrieve information about route of network. Returns: List of route info of guest.

Since

9.1

If

CONFIG_LINUX