2010/10/1 Stanley, Jon [Tech] <Jon.Stanley@gs.com>:

It seems that virt-xml-validate doesn't validate what *has* to be valid XML, that generated by virsh dumpxml against a running domain:

[root@etc752365a ~]# virsh list  Id Name                 State ----------------------------------  2 rhel55               running  3 rhel53               running

[root@etc752365a ~]# virsh dumpxml rhel55 > foo.xml [root@etc752365a ~]# virt-xml-validate foo.xml foo.xml:8: element type: Relax-NG validity error : Invalid attribute arch for element type foo.xml:9: element boot: Relax-NG validity error : Element os failed to validate content foo.xml:8: element type: Relax-NG validity error : Error validating value foo.xml:8: element type: Relax-NG validity error : Element type failed to validate content foo.xml:1: element domain: Relax-NG validity error : Invalid sequence in interleave foo.xml:1: element domain: Relax-NG validity error : Element domain failed to validate content foo.xml fails to validate

Is there something that I'm doing wrong here? This is the libvirt that comes with RHEL5.5

I tested with current git head and I can reproduce validations errors for running domains. They come from the device alias element that is only in the XML for running domains, but missing in the domain.rng. I've fixed this device alias issue and will post the patch for it later today. But your validation errors refer to the arch attribute of the os element, so you're probably having a different problem. RHEL 5.5 comes with libvirt 0.6.3, latest version is 0.8.4. Maybe the problem has already be fixed in a newer version. Could you attach the dumpxml output that doesn't validate for you? So we can check in detail what the problem is. Maybe the problem is still there but I can't reproduce it with my setup. Matthias