diff --git a/docs/formatdomain.html.in b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
index 7ec57135f6ef643cb675d746571edb88e0ce7824..500f114f41a5cc90dcc9b79236f59b0c37091212 100644
--- a/docs/formatdomain.html.in
+++ b/docs/formatdomain.html.in
@@ -363,7 +363,8 @@
       <dd>The <code>table</code> element contains a fully-qualified path
         to the ACPI table. The <code>type</code> attribute contains the
         ACPI table type (currently only <code>slic</code> is supported)
-        <span class="since">Since 1.3.5 (QEMU only)</span></dd>
+        <span class="since">Since 1.3.5 (QEMU)</span>
+        <span class="since">Since 5.8.0 (Xen)</span></dd>
     </dl>
 
     <h4><a id="elementsOSContainer">Container boot</a></h4>
diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
index c76704a11d0228163273374794e3509b84195528..c0d4861753910960822c66946746e62b4e04235e 100644
--- a/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
+++ b/src/libxl/libxl_conf.c
@@ -506,6 +506,11 @@ libxlMakeDomBuildInfo(virDomainDefPtr def,
                           def->features[VIR_DOMAIN_FEATURE_ACPI] ==
                           VIR_TRISTATE_SWITCH_ON);
 
+        /* copy SLIC table path to acpi_firmware */
+        if (def->os.slic_table &&
+                VIR_STRDUP(b_info->u.hvm.acpi_firmware, def->os.slic_table) < 0)
+            return -1;
+
         if (def->nsounds > 0) {
             /*
              * Use first sound device.  man xl.cfg(5) describes soundhw as