VIRT-HOST-VALIDATE(1)

💅 NAME

ok so bestie, virt-host-validate — it literally validates your host virtualization setup ✨ like it checks whether your machine is actually configured properly to run libvirt hypervisor drivers. no cap, it's giving "vibe check for your whole box" 💖

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🎀 SYNOPSIS

virt-host-validate [OPTIONS...] [HV-TYPE]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

okay so here's the tea 🍓 — this tool validates that the host is configured in a suitable way to run libvirt hypervisor drivers. it's basically the friend who checks your outfit before you leave the house, except the outfit is your kernel config and the house is a hypervisor 🫶

if you invoke it with no arguments at all? it will check support for all hypervisor drivers it is aware of. all of them. the whole roster 💅

optionally (iykyk) you can hand it a particular hypervisor type — qemu, lxc or bhyve — to restrict the checks to those relevant for that virtualization technology. like "no babe, just qemu today" ⭐

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -v, --version — displays the command version, so you know exactly which era of slay you're working with 🔥
• -h, --help — displays the command line help, the classic "hello?? explain yourself" move 💫
• -q, --quiet — don't display details of individual checks being performed. only display output if a check does not pass. silence is golden, and honestly? iconic 🙈

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👑 EXIT STATUS

upon successful validation, an exit status of 0 will be set 🎉 (the validation ate, no crumbs)

upon failure, a non-zero status will be set 💀 (it's giving red flags, go read the output)

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🌸 AUTHOR

Daniel P. Berrangé 💜 — yes, that's the whole author section, the man himself, the main character of this page fr fr

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🐛 BUGS

please report all bugs you discover 🫶 this should be done via either:

1. the mailing list

https://libvirt.org/contact.html

2. the bug tracker

https://libvirt.org/bugs.html

alternatively, you may report bugs to your software distributor / vendor 💖

ngl, bugs happen — the important thing is you tell someone instead of just suffering in silence 😭

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🌈 COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2012 by Red Hat, Inc.

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🧚 LICENSE

virt-host-validate is distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v2+.

this is free software; see the source for copying conditions. there is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 💅

like bestie, zero warranty, none at all, not even the merchantability kind, so please don't come for anyone if it goes sideways 🙈

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🎀 SEE ALSO

virsh(1), virt-pki-validate(1), virt-xml-validate(1), https://libvirt.org/

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🦋 this came to you from the VIRT-HOST-VALIDATE(1) corner of the Virtualization Support neighborhood — go validate something, you absolute icon 💖✨