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<h1>Driver capabilities XML format</h1>
<p>As new virtualization engine support gets added to libvirt, and to handle
cases like QEmu supporting a variety of emulations, a query interface has
been added in 0.2.1 allowing to list the set of supported virtualization
capabilities on the host:</p>
<pre> char * virConnectGetCapabilities (virConnectPtr conn);</pre>
<p>The value returned is an XML document listing the virtualization
capabilities of the host and virtualization engine to which
<code>@conn</code> is connected. One can test it using <code>virsh</code>
command line tool command '<code>capabilities</code>', it dumps the XML
associated to the current connection. For example in the case of a 64 bits
machine with hardware virtualization capabilities enabled in the chip and
BIOS you will see</p>
<pre><capabilities>
<span style="color: #E50000"><host>
<cpu>
<arch>x86_64</arch>
<features>
<vmx/>
</features>
<model>core2duo</model>
<vendor>Intel</vendor>
<topology sockets="1" cores="2" threads="1"/>
<feature name="lahf_lm"/>
<feature name='xtpr'/>
...
</cpu>
<power_management>
<suspend_mem/>
<suspend_disk/>
<suspend_hybrid/>
<power_management/>
</host></span>
<!-- xen-3.0-x86_64 -->
<span style="color: #0000E5"><guest>
<os_type>xen</os_type>
<arch name="x86_64">
<wordsize>64</wordsize>
<domain type="xen"></domain>
<emulator>/usr/lib64/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
</arch>
<features>
</features>
</guest></span>
<!-- hvm-3.0-x86_32 -->
<span style="color: #00B200"><guest>
<os_type>hvm</os_type>
<arch name="i686">
<wordsize>32</wordsize>
<domain type="xen"></domain>
<emulator>/usr/lib/xen/bin/qemu-dm</emulator>
<machine>pc</machine>
<machine>isapc</machine>
<loader>/usr/lib/xen/boot/hvmloader</loader>
</arch>
<features>
<cpuselection/>
<deviceboot/>
</features>
</guest></span>
...
</capabilities></pre>
<p>The first block (in red) indicates the host hardware
capabilities, such as CPU properties and the power
management features of the host platform. CPU models are
shown as additional features relative to the closest base
model, within a feature block (the block is similar to what
you will find in a Xen fully virtualized domain
description). Further, the power management features
supported by the host are shown, such as Suspend-to-RAM (S3),
Suspend-to-Disk (S4) and Hybrid-Suspend (a combination of S3
and S4). In case the host does not support
any such feature, then an empty <power_management/>
tag will be shown. </p>
<p>The second block (in blue) indicates the paravirtualization
support of the Xen support, you will see the os_type of xen
to indicate a paravirtual kernel, then architecture
information and potential features.</p>
<p>The third block (in green) gives similar information but
when running a 32 bit OS fully virtualized with Xen using
the hvm support.</p>
<p>This section is likely to be updated and augmented in the
future,
see <a href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2007-March/msg00215.html">the
discussion</a> which led to the capabilities format in the
mailing-list archives.</p>
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