swagger: "2.0" info: title: Firecracker API description: RESTful public-facing API. The API is accessible through HTTP calls on specific URLs carrying JSON modeled data. The transport medium is a Unix Domain Socket. version: 1.15.0-dev termsOfService: "" contact: email: "firecracker-maintainers@amazon.com" license: name: "Apache 2.0" url: "http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html" host: "localhost" basePath: "/" schemes: - http consumes: - application/json produces: - application/json paths: /: get: summary: Returns general information about an instance. operationId: describeInstance responses: 200: description: The instance information schema: $ref: "#/definitions/InstanceInfo" default: description: Internal Server Error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /actions: put: summary: Creates a synchronous action. operationId: createSyncAction parameters: - name: info in: body required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/InstanceActionInfo" responses: 204: description: The update was successful 400: description: The action cannot be executed due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal Server Error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /balloon: get: summary: Returns the current balloon device configuration. operationId: describeBalloonConfig responses: 200: description: The balloon device configuration schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Balloon" 400: description: Balloon device not configured. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal Server Error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" put: summary: Creates or updates a balloon device. description: Creates a new balloon device if one does not already exist, otherwise updates it, before machine startup. This will fail after machine startup. Will fail if update is not possible. operationId: putBalloon parameters: - name: body in: body description: Balloon properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Balloon" responses: 204: description: Balloon device created/updated 400: description: Balloon device cannot be created/updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" patch: summary: Updates a balloon device. description: Updates an existing balloon device, before or after machine startup. Will fail if update is not possible. operationId: patchBalloon parameters: - name: body in: body description: Balloon properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/BalloonUpdate" responses: 204: description: Balloon device updated 400: description: Balloon device cannot be updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /balloon/statistics: get: summary: Returns the latest balloon device statistics, only if enabled pre-boot. operationId: describeBalloonStats responses: 200: description: The balloon device statistics schema: $ref: "#/definitions/BalloonStats" 400: description: The balloon device statistics were not enabled when the device was configured. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal Server Error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" patch: summary: Updates a balloon device statistics polling interval. description: Updates an existing balloon device statistics interval, before or after machine startup. Will fail if update is not possible. operationId: patchBalloonStatsInterval parameters: - name: body in: body description: Balloon properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/BalloonStatsUpdate" responses: 204: description: Balloon statistics interval updated 400: description: Balloon statistics interval cannot be updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /balloon/hinting/start: patch: summary: Starts a free page hinting run only if enabled pre-boot. operationId: startBalloonHinting parameters: - name: body in: body description: When the device completes the hinting whether we should automatically ack this. required: false schema: $ref: "#/definitions/BalloonStartCmd" responses: 200: description: Free page hinting run started. 400: description: The balloon free hinting was not enabled when the device was configured. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal Server Error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /balloon/hinting/status: get: summary: Returns the balloon hinting statistics, only if enabled pre-boot. operationId: describeBalloonHinting responses: 200: description: The balloon free page hinting statistics schema: $ref: "#/definitions/BalloonHintingStatus" 400: description: The balloon free hinting was not enabled when the device was configured. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal Server Error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /balloon/hinting/stop: patch: summary: Stops a free page hinting run only if enabled pre-boot. operationId: stopBalloonHinting responses: 200: description: Free page hinting run stopped. 400: description: The balloon free hinting was not enabled when the device was configured. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal Server Error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /boot-source: put: summary: Creates or updates the boot source. Pre-boot only. description: Creates new boot source if one does not already exist, otherwise updates it. Will fail if update is not possible. operationId: putGuestBootSource parameters: - name: body in: body description: Guest boot source properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/BootSource" responses: 204: description: Boot source created/updated 400: description: Boot source cannot be created due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /cpu-config: put: summary: Configures CPU features flags for the vCPUs of the guest VM. Pre-boot only. description: Provides configuration to the Firecracker process to specify vCPU resource configuration prior to launching the guest machine. operationId: putCpuConfiguration parameters: - name: body in: body description: CPU configuration request schema: $ref: "#/definitions/CpuConfig" responses: 204: description: CPU configuration set successfully 400: description: CPU configuration cannot be updated due to invalid input format schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /drives/{drive_id}: put: summary: Creates or updates a drive. Pre-boot only. description: Creates new drive with ID specified by drive_id path parameter. If a drive with the specified ID already exists, updates its state based on new input. Will fail if update is not possible. operationId: putGuestDriveByID parameters: - name: drive_id in: path description: The id of the guest drive required: true type: string - name: body in: body description: Guest drive properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Drive" responses: 204: description: Drive created/updated 400: description: Drive cannot be created/updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" patch: summary: Updates the properties of a drive. Post-boot only. description: Updates the properties of the drive with the ID specified by drive_id path parameter. Will fail if update is not possible. operationId: patchGuestDriveByID parameters: - name: drive_id in: path description: The id of the guest drive required: true type: string - name: body in: body description: Guest drive properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/PartialDrive" responses: 204: description: Drive updated 400: description: Drive cannot be updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /pmem/{id}: put: summary: Creates or updates a pmem device. Pre-boot only. description: Creates new pmem device with ID specified by id parameter. If a pmem device with the specified ID already exists, updates its state based on new input. Will fail if update is not possible. operationId: putGuestPmemByID parameters: - name: id in: path description: The id of the guest pmem device required: true type: string - name: body in: body description: Guest pmem device properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Pmem" responses: 204: description: Pmem device is created/updated 400: description: Pmem device cannot be created/updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /logger: put: summary: Initializes the logger by specifying a named pipe or a file for the logs output. operationId: putLogger parameters: - name: body in: body description: Logging system description required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Logger" responses: 204: description: Logger created. 400: description: Logger cannot be initialized due to bad input. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /machine-config: get: summary: Gets the machine configuration of the VM. description: Gets the machine configuration of the VM. When called before the PUT operation, it will return the default values for the vCPU count (=1), memory size (=128 MiB). By default SMT is disabled and there is no CPU Template. operationId: getMachineConfiguration responses: 200: description: OK schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MachineConfiguration" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" put: summary: Updates the Machine Configuration of the VM. Pre-boot only. description: Updates the Virtual Machine Configuration with the specified input. Firecracker starts with default values for vCPU count (=1) and memory size (=128 MiB). The vCPU count is restricted to the [1, 32] range. With SMT enabled, the vCPU count is required to be either 1 or an even number in the range. otherwise there are no restrictions regarding the vCPU count. If 2M hugetlbfs pages are specified, then `mem_size_mib` must be a multiple of 2. If any of the parameters has an incorrect value, the whole update fails. All parameters that are optional and are not specified are set to their default values (smt = false, track_dirty_pages = false, cpu_template = None, huge_pages = None). operationId: putMachineConfiguration parameters: - name: body in: body description: Machine Configuration Parameters schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MachineConfiguration" responses: 204: description: Machine Configuration created/updated 400: description: Machine Configuration cannot be updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" patch: summary: Partially updates the Machine Configuration of the VM. Pre-boot only. description: Partially updates the Virtual Machine Configuration with the specified input. If any of the parameters has an incorrect value, the whole update fails. operationId: patchMachineConfiguration parameters: - name: body in: body description: A subset of Machine Configuration Parameters schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MachineConfiguration" responses: 204: description: Machine Configuration created/updated 400: description: Machine Configuration cannot be updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /metrics: put: summary: Initializes the metrics system by specifying a named pipe or a file for the metrics output. operationId: putMetrics parameters: - name: body in: body description: Metrics system description required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Metrics" responses: 204: description: Metrics system created. 400: description: Metrics system cannot be initialized due to bad input request or metrics system already initialized. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /mmds: put: summary: Creates a MMDS (Microvm Metadata Service) data store. operationId: putMmds parameters: - name: body in: body description: The MMDS data store as JSON. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MmdsContentsObject" responses: 204: description: MMDS data store created/updated. 400: description: MMDS data store cannot be created due to bad input. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" patch: summary: Updates the MMDS data store. operationId: patchMmds parameters: - name: body in: body description: The MMDS data store patch JSON. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MmdsContentsObject" responses: 204: description: MMDS data store updated. 400: description: MMDS data store cannot be updated due to bad input. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" get: summary: Get the MMDS data store. operationId: getMmds responses: 200: description: The MMDS data store JSON. schema: type: object additionalProperties: true 404: description: The MMDS data store content can not be found. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /mmds/config: put: summary: Set MMDS configuration. Pre-boot only. operationId: putMmdsConfig description: Configures MMDS version, IPv4 address used by the MMDS network stack and interfaces that allow MMDS requests. parameters: - name: body in: body description: The MMDS configuration as JSON. required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MmdsConfig" responses: 204: description: MMDS configuration was created/updated. 400: description: MMDS configuration cannot be updated due to bad input. schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /entropy: put: summary: Creates an entropy device. Pre-boot only. description: Enables an entropy device that provides high-quality random data to the guest. operationId: putEntropyDevice parameters: - name: body in: body description: Guest entropy device properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/EntropyDevice" responses: 204: description: Entropy device created default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /serial: put: summary: Configures the serial console operationId: putSerialDevice description: Configure the serial console, which the guest can write its kernel logs to. Has no effect if the serial console is not also enabled on the guest kernel command line parameters: - name: body in: body description: Serial console properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/SerialDevice" responses: 204: description: Serial device configured default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /hotplug/memory: put: summary: Configures the hotpluggable memory operationId: putMemoryHotplug description: Configure the hotpluggable memory, which is a virtio-mem device, with an associated memory area that can be hot(un)plugged in the guest on demand using the PATCH API. parameters: - name: body in: body description: Hotpluggable memory configuration required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MemoryHotplugConfig" responses: 204: description: Hotpluggable memory configured default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" patch: summary: Updates the size of the hotpluggable memory region operationId: patchMemoryHotplug description: Updates the size of the hotpluggable memory region. The guest will plug and unplug memory to hit the requested memory. parameters: - name: body in: body description: Hotpluggable memory size update required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MemoryHotplugSizeUpdate" responses: 204: description: Hotpluggable memory configured default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" get: summary: Retrieves the status of the hotpluggable memory operationId: getMemoryHotplug description: Reuturn the status of the hotpluggable memory. This can be used to follow the progress of the guest after a PATCH API. responses: 200: description: OK schema: $ref: "#/definitions/MemoryHotplugStatus" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /network-interfaces/{iface_id}: put: summary: Creates a network interface. Pre-boot only. description: Creates new network interface with ID specified by iface_id path parameter. operationId: putGuestNetworkInterfaceByID parameters: - name: iface_id in: path description: The id of the guest network interface required: true type: string - name: body in: body description: Guest network interface properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/NetworkInterface" responses: 204: description: Network interface created/updated 400: description: Network interface cannot be created due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" patch: summary: Updates the rate limiters applied to a network interface. Post-boot only. description: Updates the rate limiters applied to a network interface. operationId: patchGuestNetworkInterfaceByID parameters: - name: iface_id in: path description: The id of the guest network interface required: true type: string - name: body in: body description: A subset of the guest network interface properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/PartialNetworkInterface" responses: 204: description: Network interface updated 400: description: Network interface cannot be updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /snapshot/create: put: summary: Creates a full or diff snapshot. Post-boot only. description: Creates a snapshot of the microVM state. The microVM should be in the `Paused` state. operationId: createSnapshot parameters: - name: body in: body description: The configuration used for creating a snapshot. required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/SnapshotCreateParams" responses: 204: description: Snapshot created 400: description: Snapshot cannot be created due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /snapshot/load: put: summary: Loads a snapshot. Pre-boot only. description: Loads the microVM state from a snapshot. Only accepted on a fresh Firecracker process (before configuring any resource other than the Logger and Metrics). operationId: loadSnapshot parameters: - name: body in: body description: The configuration used for loading a snapshot. required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/SnapshotLoadParams" responses: 204: description: Snapshot loaded 400: description: Snapshot cannot be loaded due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /version: get: summary: Gets the Firecracker version. operationId: getFirecrackerVersion responses: 200: description: OK schema: $ref: "#/definitions/FirecrackerVersion" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /vm: patch: summary: Updates the microVM state. description: Sets the desired state (Paused or Resumed) for the microVM. operationId: patchVm parameters: - name: body in: body description: The microVM state required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Vm" responses: 204: description: Vm state updated 400: description: Vm state cannot be updated due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /vm/config: get: summary: Gets the full VM configuration. description: Gets configuration for all VM resources. If the VM is restored from a snapshot, the boot-source, machine-config.smt and machine-config.cpu_template will be empty. operationId: getExportVmConfig responses: 200: description: OK schema: $ref: "#/definitions/FullVmConfiguration" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" /vsock: put: summary: Creates/updates a vsock device. Pre-boot only. description: The first call creates the device with the configuration specified in body. Subsequent calls will update the device configuration. May fail if update is not possible. operationId: putGuestVsock parameters: - name: body in: body description: Guest vsock properties required: true schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Vsock" responses: 204: description: Vsock created/updated 400: description: Vsock cannot be created due to bad input schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" default: description: Internal server error schema: $ref: "#/definitions/Error" definitions: Balloon: type: object required: - amount_mib - deflate_on_oom description: Balloon device descriptor. properties: amount_mib: type: integer description: Target balloon size in MiB. deflate_on_oom: type: boolean description: Whether the balloon should deflate when the guest has memory pressure. stats_polling_interval_s: type: integer description: Interval in seconds between refreshing statistics. A non-zero value will enable the statistics. Defaults to 0. free_page_hinting: type: boolean description: Whether the free page hinting feature is enabled. free_page_reporting: type: boolean description: Whether the free page reporting feature is enabled. BalloonUpdate: type: object required: - amount_mib description: Balloon device descriptor. properties: amount_mib: type: integer description: Target balloon size in MiB. BalloonStats: type: object description: Describes the balloon device statistics. required: - target_pages - actual_pages - target_mib - actual_mib properties: target_pages: description: Target number of pages the device aims to hold. type: integer actual_pages: description: Actual number of pages the device is holding. type: integer target_mib: description: Target amount of memory (in MiB) the device aims to hold. type: integer actual_mib: description: Actual amount of memory (in MiB) the device is holding. type: integer swap_in: description: The amount of memory that has been swapped in (in bytes). type: integer format: int64 swap_out: description: The amount of memory that has been swapped out to disk (in bytes). type: integer format: int64 major_faults: description: The number of major page faults that have occurred. type: integer format: int64 minor_faults: description: The number of minor page faults that have occurred. type: integer format: int64 free_memory: description: The amount of memory not being used for any purpose (in bytes). type: integer format: int64 total_memory: description: The total amount of memory available (in bytes). type: integer format: int64 available_memory: description: An estimate of how much memory is available (in bytes) for starting new applications, without pushing the system to swap. type: integer format: int64 disk_caches: description: The amount of memory, in bytes, that can be quickly reclaimed without additional I/O. Typically these pages are used for caching files from disk. type: integer format: int64 hugetlb_allocations: description: The number of successful hugetlb page allocations in the guest. type: integer format: int64 hugetlb_failures: description: The number of failed hugetlb page allocations in the guest. type: integer format: int64 oom_kill: description: OOM killer invocations, indicating critical memory pressure. type: integer format: int64 alloc_stall: description: Counter of Allocation enter a slow path to gain more memory page. The reclaim/scan metrics can reveal what is actually happening. type: integer format: int64 async_scan: description: Amount of memory scanned asynchronously. type: integer format: int64 direct_scan: description: Amount of memory scanned directly. type: integer format: int64 async_reclaim: description: Amount of memory reclaimed asynchronously. type: integer format: int64 direct_reclaim: description: Amount of memory reclaimed directly. type: integer format: int64 BalloonStartCmd: type: object description: Command used to start a free page hinting run. properties: acknowledge_on_stop: description: If Firecracker should automatically acknowledge when the guest submits a done cmd. type: boolean BalloonHintingStatus: type: object description: Describes the free page hinting status. required: - host_cmd properties: host_cmd: description: The last command issued by the host. type: integer guest_cmd: description: The last command provided by the guest. type: integer BalloonStatsUpdate: type: object required: - stats_polling_interval_s description: Update the statistics polling interval, with the first statistics update scheduled immediately. Statistics cannot be turned on/off after boot. properties: stats_polling_interval_s: type: integer description: Interval in seconds between refreshing statistics. BootSource: type: object required: - kernel_image_path description: Boot source descriptor. properties: boot_args: type: string description: Kernel boot arguments initrd_path: type: string description: Host level path to the initrd image used to boot the guest kernel_image_path: type: string description: Host level path to the kernel image used to boot the guest CpuTemplate: type: string description: The CPU Template defines a set of flags to be disabled from the microvm so that the features exposed to the guest are the same as in the selected instance type. This parameter has been deprecated and it will be removed in future Firecracker release. enum: - C3 - T2 - T2S - T2CL - T2A - V1N1 - None default: "None" CpuConfig: type: object description: The CPU configuration template defines a set of bit maps as modifiers of flags accessed by register to be disabled/enabled for the microvm. properties: kvm_capabilities: type: array description: A collection of KVM capabilities to be added or removed (both x86_64 and aarch64) items: type: string description: KVM capability as a numeric string. Prefix with '!' to remove capability. Example "121" (add) or "!121" (remove) cpuid_modifiers: type: array description: A collection of CPUID leaf modifiers (x86_64 only) items: $ref: "#/definitions/CpuidLeafModifier" msr_modifiers: type: array description: A collection of model specific register modifiers (x86_64 only) items: $ref: "#/definitions/MsrModifier" reg_modifiers: type: array description: A collection of register modifiers (aarch64 only) items: $ref: "#/definitions/ArmRegisterModifier" vcpu_features: type: array description: A collection of vCPU features to be modified (aarch64 only) items: $ref: "#/definitions/VcpuFeatures" CpuidLeafModifier: type: object description: Modifier for a CPUID leaf and subleaf (x86_64) required: - leaf - subleaf - flags - modifiers properties: leaf: type: string description: CPUID leaf index as hex, binary, or decimal string (e.g., "0x0", "0b0", "0")) subleaf: type: string description: CPUID subleaf index as hex, binary, or decimal string (e.g., "0x0", "0b0", "0") flags: type: integer format: int32 description: KVM feature flags for this leaf-subleaf modifiers: type: array description: Register modifiers for this CPUID leaf items: $ref: "#/definitions/CpuidRegisterModifier" CpuidRegisterModifier: type: object description: Modifier for a specific CPUID register within a leaf (x86_64) required: - register - bitmap properties: register: type: string description: Target CPUID register name enum: - eax - ebx - ecx - edx bitmap: type: string description: 32-bit bitmap string defining which bits to modify. Format is "0b" followed by 32 characters where '0' = clear bit, '1' = set bit, 'x' = don't modify. Example "0b00000000000000000000000000000001" or "0bxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx0001" MsrModifier: type: object description: Modifier for a model specific register (x86_64) required: - addr - bitmap properties: addr: type: string description: 32-bit MSR address as hex, binary, or decimal string (e.g., "0x10a", "0b100001010", "266") bitmap: type: string description: 64-bit bitmap string defining which bits to modify. Format is "0b" followed by 64 characters where '0' = clear bit, '1' = set bit, 'x' = don't modify. Underscores can be used for readability. Example "0b0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001" ArmRegisterModifier: type: object description: Modifier for an ARM register (aarch64) required: - addr - bitmap properties: addr: type: string description: 64-bit register address as hex, binary, or decimal string (e.g., "0x0", "0b0", "0") bitmap: type: string description: 128-bit bitmap string defining which bits to modify. Format is "0b" followed by up to 128 characters where '0' = clear bit, '1' = set bit, 'x' = don't modify. Underscores can be used for readability. Example "0b0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001" VcpuFeatures: type: object description: vCPU feature modifier (aarch64) required: - index - bitmap properties: index: type: integer format: int32 description: Index in the kvm_vcpu_init.features array bitmap: type: string description: 32-bit bitmap string defining which bits to modify. Format is "0b" followed by 32 characters where '0' = clear bit, '1' = set bit, 'x' = don't modify. Example "0b00000000000000000000000001100000" Drive: type: object required: - drive_id - is_root_device properties: drive_id: type: string partuuid: type: string description: Represents the unique id of the boot partition of this device. It is optional and it will be taken into account only if the is_root_device field is true. is_root_device: type: boolean cache_type: type: string description: Represents the caching strategy for the block device. enum: ["Unsafe", "Writeback"] default: "Unsafe" # VirtioBlock specific parameters is_read_only: type: boolean description: Is block read only. This field is required for virtio-block config and should be omitted for vhost-user-block configuration. path_on_host: type: string description: Host level path for the guest drive. This field is required for virtio-block config and should be omitted for vhost-user-block configuration. rate_limiter: $ref: "#/definitions/RateLimiter" io_engine: type: string description: Type of the IO engine used by the device. "Async" is supported on host kernels newer than 5.10.51. This field is optional for virtio-block config and should be omitted for vhost-user-block configuration. enum: ["Sync", "Async"] default: "Sync" # VhostUserBlock specific parameters socket: type: string description: Path to the socket of vhost-user-block backend. This field is required for vhost-user-block config should be omitted for virtio-block configuration. Pmem: type: object required: - id - path_on_host properties: id: type: string description: Identificator for this device. path_on_host: type: string description: Host level path for the virtio-pmem device to use as a backing file. root_device: type: boolean description: Flag to make this device be the root device for VM boot. Setting this flag will fail if there is another device configured to be a root device already. read_only: type: boolean description: Flag to map backing file in read-only mode. Error: type: object properties: fault_message: type: string description: A description of the error condition readOnly: true FullVmConfiguration: type: object properties: balloon: $ref: "#/definitions/Balloon" drives: type: array description: Configurations for all block devices. items: $ref: "#/definitions/Drive" boot-source: $ref: "#/definitions/BootSource" cpu-config: $ref: "#/definitions/CpuConfig" logger: $ref: "#/definitions/Logger" machine-config: $ref: "#/definitions/MachineConfiguration" metrics: $ref: "#/definitions/Metrics" memory-hotplug: $ref: "#/definitions/MemoryHotplugConfig" mmds-config: $ref: "#/definitions/MmdsConfig" network-interfaces: type: array description: Configurations for all net devices. items: $ref: "#/definitions/NetworkInterface" pmem: type: array description: Configurations for all pmem devices. items: $ref: "#/definitions/Pmem" vsock: $ref: "#/definitions/Vsock" entropy: $ref: "#/definitions/EntropyDevice" InstanceActionInfo: type: object description: Variant wrapper containing the real action. required: - action_type properties: action_type: description: Enumeration indicating what type of action is contained in the payload type: string enum: - FlushMetrics - InstanceStart - SendCtrlAltDel InstanceInfo: type: object description: Describes MicroVM instance information. required: - app_name - id - state - vmm_version properties: app_name: description: Application name. type: string id: description: MicroVM / instance ID. type: string state: description: The current detailed state (Not started, Running, Paused) of the Firecracker instance. This value is read-only for the control-plane. type: string enum: - Not started - Running - Paused vmm_version: description: MicroVM hypervisor build version. type: string Logger: type: object description: Describes the configuration option for the logging capability. properties: level: type: string description: Set the level. The possible values are case-insensitive. enum: [Error, Warning, Info, Debug, Trace, Off] default: Info log_path: type: string description: Path to the named pipe or file for the human readable log output. show_level: type: boolean description: Whether or not to output the level in the logs. default: false show_log_origin: type: boolean description: Whether or not to include the file path and line number of the log's origin. default: false module: type: string description: The module path to filter log messages by. example: api_server::request MachineConfiguration: type: object description: Describes the number of vCPUs, memory size, SMT capabilities, huge page configuration and the CPU template. required: - mem_size_mib - vcpu_count properties: cpu_template: $ref: "#/definitions/CpuTemplate" # gdb_socket_path: # type: string # description: Path to the GDB socket. Requires the gdb feature to be enabled. smt: type: boolean description: Flag for enabling/disabling simultaneous multithreading. Can be enabled only on x86. default: false mem_size_mib: type: integer description: Memory size of VM track_dirty_pages: type: boolean description: Enable dirty page tracking. If this is enabled, then incremental guest memory snapshots can be created. These belong to diff snapshots, which contain, besides the microVM state, only the memory dirtied since a previous snapshot. Full snapshots each contain a full copy of the guest memory. default: false vcpu_count: type: integer minimum: 1 maximum: 32 description: Number of vCPUs (either 1 or an even number) huge_pages: type: string enum: - None - 2M description: Which huge pages configuration (if any) should be used to back guest memory. MemoryBackend: type: object required: - backend_type - backend_path properties: backend_type: type: string enum: - File - Uffd backend_path: type: string description: Based on 'backend_type' it is either 1) Path to the file that contains the guest memory to be loaded 2) Path to the UDS where a process is listening for a UFFD initialization control payload and open file descriptor that it can use to serve this process's guest memory page faults Metrics: type: object description: Describes the configuration option for the metrics capability. required: - metrics_path properties: metrics_path: type: string description: Path to the named pipe or file where the JSON-formatted metrics are flushed. MmdsConfig: type: object description: Defines the MMDS configuration. required: - network_interfaces properties: version: description: Enumeration indicating the MMDS version to be configured. type: string enum: - V1 - V2 default: V1 network_interfaces: description: List of the network interface IDs capable of forwarding packets to the MMDS. Network interface IDs mentioned must be valid at the time of this request. The net device model will reply to HTTP GET requests sent to the MMDS address via the interfaces mentioned. In this case, both ARP requests and TCP segments heading to `ipv4_address` are intercepted by the device model, and do not reach the associated TAP device. type: array items: type: string ipv4_address: type: string format: "169.254.([1-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-4]).([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-9][0-9]|2[0-4][0-9]|25[0-5])" default: "169.254.169.254" description: A valid IPv4 link-local address. imds_compat: type: boolean description: MMDS operates compatibly with EC2 IMDS (i.e. responds "text/plain" content regardless of Accept header in requests). default: false MmdsContentsObject: type: object description: Describes the contents of MMDS in JSON format. additionalProperties: true NetworkInterface: type: object description: Defines a network interface. required: - host_dev_name - iface_id properties: guest_mac: type: string host_dev_name: type: string description: Host level path for the guest network interface iface_id: type: string rx_rate_limiter: $ref: "#/definitions/RateLimiter" tx_rate_limiter: $ref: "#/definitions/RateLimiter" PartialDrive: type: object required: - drive_id properties: drive_id: type: string path_on_host: type: string description: Host level path for the guest drive. This field is optional for virtio-block config and should be omitted for vhost-user-block configuration. rate_limiter: $ref: "#/definitions/RateLimiter" PartialNetworkInterface: type: object description: Defines a partial network interface structure, used to update the rate limiters for that interface, after microvm start. required: - iface_id properties: iface_id: type: string rx_rate_limiter: $ref: "#/definitions/RateLimiter" tx_rate_limiter: $ref: "#/definitions/RateLimiter" RateLimiter: type: object description: Defines an IO rate limiter with independent bytes/s and ops/s limits. Limits are defined by configuring each of the _bandwidth_ and _ops_ token buckets. This field is optional for virtio-block config and should be omitted for vhost-user-block configuration. properties: bandwidth: $ref: "#/definitions/TokenBucket" description: Token bucket with bytes as tokens ops: $ref: "#/definitions/TokenBucket" description: Token bucket with operations as tokens SnapshotCreateParams: type: object required: - mem_file_path - snapshot_path properties: mem_file_path: type: string description: Path to the file that will contain the guest memory. snapshot_path: type: string description: Path to the file that will contain the microVM state. snapshot_type: type: string enum: - Full - Diff description: Type of snapshot to create. It is optional and by default, a full snapshot is created. NetworkOverride: type: object description: Allows for changing the backing TAP device of a network interface during snapshot restore. required: - iface_id - host_dev_name properties: iface_id: type: string description: The name of the interface to modify host_dev_name: type: string description: The new host device of the interface SnapshotLoadParams: type: object description: Defines the configuration used for handling snapshot resume. Exactly one of the two `mem_*` fields must be present in the body of the request. required: - snapshot_path properties: enable_diff_snapshots: type: boolean description: (Deprecated) Enable dirty page tracking to improve space efficiency of diff snapshots track_dirty_pages: type: boolean description: Enable dirty page tracking to improve space efficiency of diff snapshots mem_file_path: type: string description: Path to the file that contains the guest memory to be loaded. It is only allowed if `mem_backend` is not present. This parameter has been deprecated and it will be removed in future Firecracker release. mem_backend: $ref: "#/definitions/MemoryBackend" description: Configuration for the backend that handles memory load. If this field is specified, `mem_file_path` is forbidden. Either `mem_backend` or `mem_file_path` must be present at a time. snapshot_path: type: string description: Path to the file that contains the microVM state to be loaded. resume_vm: type: boolean description: When set to true, the vm is also resumed if the snapshot load is successful. network_overrides: type: array description: Network host device names to override items: $ref: "#/definitions/NetworkOverride" TokenBucket: type: object description: Defines a token bucket with a maximum capacity (size), an initial burst size (one_time_burst) and an interval for refilling purposes (refill_time). The refill-rate is derived from size and refill_time, and it is the constant rate at which the tokens replenish. The refill process only starts happening after the initial burst budget is consumed. Consumption from the token bucket is unbounded in speed which allows for bursts bound in size by the amount of tokens available. Once the token bucket is empty, consumption speed is bound by the refill_rate. required: - refill_time - size properties: one_time_burst: type: integer format: int64 description: The initial size of a token bucket. minimum: 0 refill_time: type: integer format: int64 description: The amount of milliseconds it takes for the bucket to refill. minimum: 0 size: type: integer format: int64 description: The total number of tokens this bucket can hold. minimum: 0 Vm: type: object description: Defines the microVM running state. It is especially useful in the snapshotting context. required: - state properties: state: type: string enum: - Paused - Resumed EntropyDevice: type: object description: Defines an entropy device. properties: rate_limiter: $ref: "#/definitions/RateLimiter" SerialDevice: type: object description: The configuration of the serial device properties: serial_out_path: type: string description: Path to a file or named pipe on the host to which serial output should be written. MemoryHotplugConfig: type: object description: The configuration of the hotpluggable memory device (virtio-mem) properties: total_size_mib: type: integer description: Total size of the hotpluggable memory in MiB. slot_size_mib: type: integer default: 128 minimum: 128 description: Slot size for the hotpluggable memory in MiB. This will determine the granularity of hot-plug memory from the host. Refer to the device documentation on how to tune this value. block_size_mib: type: integer default: 2 minimum: 2 description: (Logical) Block size for the hotpluggable memory in MiB. This will determine the logical granularity of hot-plug memory for the guest. Refer to the device documentation on how to tune this value. MemoryHotplugSizeUpdate: type: object description: An update to the size of the hotpluggable memory region. properties: requested_size_mib: type: integer description: New target region size. MemoryHotplugStatus: type: object description: The status of the hotpluggable memory device (virtio-mem) properties: total_size_mib: type: integer description: Total size of the hotpluggable memory in MiB. slot_size_mib: type: integer description: Slot size for the hotpluggable memory in MiB. block_size_mib: type: integer description: (Logical) Block size for the hotpluggable memory in MiB. plugged_size_mib: type: integer description: Plugged size for the hotpluggable memory in MiB. requested_size_mib: type: integer description: Requested size for the hotpluggable memory in MiB. FirecrackerVersion: type: object description: Describes the Firecracker version. required: - firecracker_version properties: firecracker_version: description: Firecracker build version. type: string Vsock: type: object description: Defines a vsock device, backed by a set of Unix Domain Sockets, on the host side. For host-initiated connections, Firecracker will be listening on the Unix socket identified by the path `uds_path`. Firecracker will create this socket, bind and listen on it. Host-initiated connections will be performed by connection to this socket and issuing a connection forwarding request to the desired guest-side vsock port (i.e. `CONNECT 52\n`, to connect to port 52). For guest-initiated connections, Firecracker will expect host software to be bound and listening on Unix sockets at `uds_path_`. E.g. "/path/to/host_vsock.sock_52" for port number 52. required: - guest_cid - uds_path properties: guest_cid: type: integer minimum: 3 description: Guest Vsock CID uds_path: type: string description: Path to UNIX domain socket, used to proxy vsock connections. vsock_id: type: string description: This parameter has been deprecated and it will be removed in future Firecracker release.