diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
index 43c75787d63722106335eb8236ca2dbf36844782..6842cfefc9631e80622e97a7bd34d9c46562e021 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c
@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ VIR_ENUM_IMPL(qemuCaps, QEMU_CAPS_LAST,
               "ich9-ahci",
               "no-acpi",
               "fsdev-readonly",
+
+              "virtio-blk-pci.scsi",
+              "blk-sg-io",
     );
 
 struct qemu_feature_flags {
@@ -1149,6 +1152,9 @@ qemuCapsComputeCmdFlags(const char *help,
     if (version >= 10000)
         qemuCapsSet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_0_10);
 
+    if (version >= 11000)
+        qemuCapsSet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_BLK_SG_IO);
+
     /* While JSON mode was available in 0.12.0, it was too
      * incomplete to contemplate using. The 0.13.0 release
      * is good enough to use, even though it lacks one or
@@ -1386,6 +1392,8 @@ qemuCapsParseDeviceStr(const char *str, virBitmapPtr flags)
         qemuCapsSet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_BLK_EVENT_IDX);
     if (strstr(str, "virtio-net-pci.event_idx"))
         qemuCapsSet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_NET_EVENT_IDX);
+    if (strstr(str, "virtio-blk-pci.scsi"))
+        qemuCapsSet(flags, QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI);
 
     return 0;
 }
diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h
index c759baf0e260e51a75df44de9e20f5684eb0126e..d47177cf75f92b9d22f941bb4a80d2117f53f3b1 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.h
@@ -118,6 +118,9 @@ enum qemuCapsFlags {
     QEMU_CAPS_NO_ACPI		= 78, /* -no-acpi */
     QEMU_CAPS_FSDEV_READONLY    =79, /* -fsdev readonly supported */
 
+    QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_BLK_SCSI    = 80, /* virtio-blk-pci.scsi */
+    QEMU_CAPS_VIRTIO_BLK_SG_IO   = 81, /* support for SG_IO commands, reportedly added in 0.11 */
+
     QEMU_CAPS_LAST,                   /* this must always be the last item */
 };