On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:37 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 04:26:28PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote: >> Given a virDomainPtr variable, how can we know that it is a QEMU or >> KVM machine? Is there any API for that? > > Yes - use virDomainGetXMLDesc[1] to get the XML description of the > domain, then parse out the <domain type='...'> field[2] which will be > either 'qemu' or 'kvm'. This is a pain if you're using a language > which doesn't support XML parsing, but you can usually find a library > to help you, eg. in C use libxml2. > > Now there's an additional question: is KVM using hardware acceleration > or is it falling back to software emulation (ie. because the hardware > doesn't support hardware virtualization)? IIRC you can answer this by > looking at the capabilities XML[3], but I think you'll need to do a > bit of experimentation and look at the source code. > That is clear now, thanks! Yes, I am using C. Is there any code sample on using libxml2 in libvirt code? Thanks, Jun -- Libvir-list mailing list Libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list