The Book of Xen

HVM Devices

If you poke around in your new HVM domain, you'll see devices like "QEMU harddisk," or "RealTek Ethernet controller." These take the place of the corresponding Xen devices, like xenblock or xennet. Examine this dmesg output, for example:

PIIX3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:01.1 PIIX3: chipset revision 0
PIIX3: not 100% native mode: will probe IRQs later PCI: Setting latency timer
of device 0000:00:01.1 to 64
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: QEMU HARDDISK, ATA DISK drive

This shows the QEMU emulated hard drive. Further on, we see:

eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc200, 00:16:3e:0b:7c:f0, IRQ 11 eth0: Identified ...