Virsh capabilities command doesn't recognize xpath option

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According to libvirt docs:

it should support the option.

However, when actually trying it:

user1@localhost:~> virsh capabilities --xpath "/capabilities/host/cpu/model/text()"; echo $?
error: command 'capabilities' doesn't support option --xpath
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user1@localhost:~>

And virsh command even fails creating its default “libvirt” directories at ~/.cache and ~/.config

I know I can just pipe virsh output to “xmllint --xpath” command, but still this is abnormal for me.

Why is this?

Thanks.

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@F_style Perhaps the libvirt version… Perhaps consider adding the Virtualization repo and dupping from there…
https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Virtualization/15.5/

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Isn’t that repo kind of “unstable and not 100% officially supported”, according to official openSUSE docs?

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It feeds Factory so what’s there is what’s running on Tumbleweed

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So finally the libvirt guys commented something:
The virsh --xpath option was just introduced in libvirt 9.3
As of right now, openSUSE stable ships 9.0, and factory 9.10

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@F_style yes, I’m on Tumbleweed so it works…

virsh capabilities --xpath "/capabilities/host/cpu/model/text()"
Broadwell-IBRS

lscpu | grep "Model name:"
Model name:                         Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2695 v4 @ 2.10GHz