virsh: add the volume commands to the virsh man page

This patch also includes the new vol-pool command.
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Justin Clift 2010-06-09 01:00:24 +10:00 committed by Eric Blake
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=back
=head1 VOLUME COMMANDS
=item B<vol-create> I<pool-or-uuid> I<FILE>
Create a volume from an XML <file>.
I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool to create the volume in.
I<FILE> is the XML <file> with the volume definition. An easy way to create the
XML <file> is to use the B<vol-dumpxml> command to obtain the definition of a
pre-existing volume.
B<Example>
virsh vol-dumpxml --pool storagepool1 appvolume1 > newvolume.xml
edit newvolume.xml
virsh vol-create differentstoragepool newvolume.xml
=item B<vol-create-from> I<pool-or-uuid> I<FILE> [optional I<--inputpool>
I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key-or-path>
Create a volume, using another volume as input.
I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool to create the volume in.
I<FILE> is the XML <file> with the volume definition.
I<--inputpool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or uuid of the storage pool the
source volume is in.
I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> is the name or key or path of the source volume.
=item B<vol-create-as> I<pool-or-uuid> I<name> I<capacity> optional
I<--allocation> I<size> I<--format> I<string> I<--snapshot-source-vol>
I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> I<--snapshot-source-format> I<string>
Create a volume from a set of arguments.
I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool to create the volume
in.
I<name> is the name of the new volume.
I<capacity> is the size of the volume to be created, with optional k, M, G, or
T suffix.
I<--allocation> I<size> is the initial size to be allocated in the volume, with
optional k, M, G, or T suffix.
I<--format> I<string> is used in file based storage pools to specify the volume
file format to use; raw, bochs, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
I<--snapshot-source-vol> I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> is the source backing
volume to be used if taking a snapshot of an existing volume.
I<--snapshot-source-format> I<string> is the format of the snapshot backing volume;
raw, bochs, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
=item B<vol-clone> [optional I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> I<name>
Clone an existing volume. Less powerful, but easier to type, version of
B<vol-create-from>.
I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool to create the volume in.
I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> is the name or key or path of the source volume.
I<name> is the name of the new volume.
=item B<vol-delete> [optional I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key-or-path>
Delete a given volume.
I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool the volume is in.
I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> is the name or key or path of the volume to delete.
=item B<vol-wipe> [optional I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key-or-path>
Wipe a volume, ensure data previously on the volume is not accessible to future reads.
I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool the volume is in.
I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> is the name or key or path of the volume to wipe.
=item B<vol-dumpxml> [optional I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key-or-path>
Output the volume information as an XML dump to stdout.
I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool the volume is in.
I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> is the name or key or path of the volume to output the XML of.
=item B<vol-info> [optional I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key-or-path>
Returns basic information about the given storage volume.
I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool the volume is in.
I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> is the name or key or path of the volume to return information for.
=item B<vol-list> I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>
Return the list of volumes in the given storage pool.
I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool.
=item B<vol-pool> I<vol-key-or-path>
Return the pool for a given volume.
I<vol-key-or-path> is the key or path of the volume to return the pool name for.
=item B<vol-path> [optional I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key>
Return the path for a given volume.
I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool the volume is in.
I<vol-name-or-key> is the name or key of the volume to return the path for.
=item B<vol-name> I<vol-key-or-path>
Return the name for a given volume.
I<vol-key-or-path> is the key or path of the volume to return the name for.
=item B<vol-key> I<vol-uuid>
Return the volume key for a given volume UUID.
I<vol-uuid> is the UUID of the volume to return the volume key for.
=back
=head1 SECRET COMMMANDS
The following commands manipulate "secrets" (e.g. passwords, passphrases and