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---
features:
  - |
    The ``XenAPI`` compute driver now supports creating servers with virtual
    interface and block device tags which was introduced in the ``2.32``
    microversion.

    Note that multiple paths will exist for a tagged disk for the following
    reasons:

    1. HVM guests may not have the paravirtualization (PV) drivers installed,
       in which case the disk will be accessible on the ``ide`` bus. When the
       PV drivers are installed the disk will be accessible on the ``xen`` bus.
    2. Windows guests with PV drivers installed expose devices in a different
       way to Linux guests with PV drivers. Linux systems will see disk paths
       under ``/sys/devices/``, but Windows guests will see them in the
       registry, for example ``HKLM\System\ControlSet001\Enum\SCSIDisk``. These
       two disks are both on the ``xen`` bus.

    See the following XenAPI documentation for details: http://xenbits.xen.org/docs/4.2-testing/misc/vbd-interface.txt