diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/Cargo.lock b/src/tools/kata-ctl/Cargo.lock
index e31c8622d..333470cc5 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/Cargo.lock
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/Cargo.lock
@@ -742,10 +742,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "slog-scope",
  "strum",
  "strum_macros",
+ "sys-info",
  "tempfile",
  "test-utils",
  "thiserror",
  "tokio",
+ "toml",
  "url",
  "vmm-sys-util",
 ]
@@ -1653,6 +1655,16 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "sys-info"
+version = "0.9.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0b3a0d0aba8bf96a0e1ddfdc352fc53b3df7f39318c71854910c3c4b024ae52c"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "take_mut"
 version = "0.2.2"
diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/Cargo.toml b/src/tools/kata-ctl/Cargo.toml
index d2fc5fb1e..642c9a8a8 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/Cargo.toml
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ serde = { version = "1.0.149", features = ["derive"] }
 url = "2.3.1"
 futures = "0.3.24"
 base64 = "0.13.0"
+toml = "0.5.8"
+sys-info = "0.9.1"
 
 shim-interface = { path = "../../libs/shim-interface"}
 kata-types = { path = "../../libs/kata-types" }
diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/args.rs b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/args.rs
index ff489f82b..84fac00a0 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/args.rs
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/args.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ pub enum Commands {
     DirectVolume(DirectVolumeCommand),
 
     /// Display settings
-    Env,
+    Env(EnvArgument),
 
     /// Enter into guest VM by debug console
     Exec(ExecArguments),
@@ -69,6 +69,12 @@ pub enum CheckSubCommand {
     List,
 }
 
+#[derive(Debug, Args)]
+pub struct EnvArgument {
+    /// Format output as JSON
+    #[arg(long)]
+    pub json: bool,
+}
 #[derive(Debug, Args)]
 pub struct MetricsCommand {
     #[clap(subcommand)]
diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/main.rs b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/main.rs
index 980a94771..fe64f10e1 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/main.rs
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@ use std::process::exit;
 use args::{Commands, KataCtlCli};
 
 use ops::check_ops::{
-    handle_check, handle_env, handle_factory, handle_iptables, handle_metrics, handle_version,
+    handle_check, handle_factory, handle_iptables, handle_metrics, handle_version,
 };
+use ops::env_ops::handle_env;
 use ops::exec_ops::handle_exec;
 use ops::volume_ops::handle_direct_volume;
 
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ fn real_main() -> Result<()> {
         Commands::Check(args) => handle_check(args),
         Commands::DirectVolume(args) => handle_direct_volume(args),
         Commands::Exec(args) => handle_exec(args),
-        Commands::Env => handle_env(),
+        Commands::Env(args) => handle_env(args),
         Commands::Factory => handle_factory(),
         Commands::Iptables(args) => handle_iptables(args),
         Commands::Metrics(args) => handle_metrics(args),
diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops.rs b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops.rs
index d5d4fe162..f90f55cb2 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops.rs
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops.rs
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 //
 
 pub mod check_ops;
+pub mod env_ops;
 pub mod exec_ops;
 pub mod version;
 pub mod volume_ops;
diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/check_ops.rs b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/check_ops.rs
index f2dbea702..298e214c5 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/check_ops.rs
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/check_ops.rs
@@ -107,10 +107,6 @@ pub fn handle_check(checkcmd: CheckArgument) -> Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
-pub fn handle_env() -> Result<()> {
-    Ok(())
-}
-
 pub fn handle_factory() -> Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/env_ops.rs b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/env_ops.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..894cc7020
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/ops/env_ops.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,431 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2022 Intel Corporation
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+//
+
+// Contains checks that are not architecture-specific
+
+use crate::arch::arch_specific;
+use crate::args::EnvArgument;
+use crate::check;
+use crate::ops::version;
+use crate::utils;
+use kata_types::config::TomlConfig;
+
+use anyhow::{anyhow, Context, Result};
+use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
+use std::process::Command;
+use sys_info;
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct HostInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    available_guest_protection: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    kernel: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    architecture: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    vm_container_capable: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    support_vsocks: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    distro: DistroInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    cpu: CPUInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    memory: MemoryInfo,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct DistroInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    name: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    version: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct CPUInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    vendor: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    model: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    cpus: usize,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct MemoryInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    total: u64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    available: u64,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    free: u64,
+}
+
+// Semantic version for the output of the command.
+//
+// XXX: Increment for every change to the output format
+// (meaning any change to the EnvInfo type).
+const FORMAT_VERSION: &str = "0.0.1-kata-ctl";
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct MetaInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    version: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct VersionInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    semver: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    commit: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct RuntimeConfigInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    path: String,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct RuntimeInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    path: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    guest_selinux_label: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pub experimental: Vec<String>,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    debug: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    trace: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    disable_guest_seccomp: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    disable_new_net_ns: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    sandbox_cgroup_only: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    static_sandbox_resource_mgmt: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    config: RuntimeConfigInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    version: VersionInfo,
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct AgentInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    debug: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    trace: bool,
+}
+// KernelInfo stores kernel details
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct KernelInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    path: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    parameters: String,
+}
+
+// InitrdInfo stores initrd image details
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct InitrdInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    path: String,
+}
+
+// ImageInfo stores root filesystem image details
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct ImageInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    path: String,
+}
+
+// HypervisorInfo stores hypervisor details
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct HypervisorInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    machine_type: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    machine_accelerators: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    version: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    path: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    block_device_driver: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    entropy_source: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    shared_fs: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    virtio_fs_daemon: String,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    msize_9p: u32,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    memory_slots: u32,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    pcie_root_port: u32,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    hotplug_vfio_on_rootbus: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    debug: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    enable_iommu: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    enable_iommu_platform: bool,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    default_vcpus: i32,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    cpu_features: String,
+}
+
+// EnvInfo collects all information that will be displayed by the
+// env command.
+//
+// XXX: Any changes must be coupled with a change to formatVersion.
+#[derive(Debug, Default, Deserialize, Serialize)]
+pub struct EnvInfo {
+    #[serde(default)]
+    kernel: KernelInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    meta: MetaInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    image: ImageInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    initrd: InitrdInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    hypervisor: HypervisorInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    runtime: RuntimeInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    host: HostInfo,
+    #[serde(default)]
+    agent: AgentInfo,
+}
+
+pub fn get_meta_info() -> MetaInfo {
+    MetaInfo {
+        version: String::from(FORMAT_VERSION),
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn get_memory_info() -> Result<MemoryInfo> {
+    let mem_info = sys_info::mem_info().context("get host memory information")?;
+    Ok(MemoryInfo {
+        total: mem_info.total,
+        available: mem_info.avail,
+        free: mem_info.free,
+    })
+}
+
+fn get_host_info() -> Result<HostInfo> {
+    let host_kernel_version = utils::get_kernel_version(utils::PROC_VERSION_FILE)?;
+    let (host_distro_name, host_distro_version) =
+        utils::get_distro_details(utils::OS_RELEASE, utils::OS_RELEASE_CLR)?;
+    let (cpu_vendor, cpu_model) = utils::get_generic_cpu_details(check::PROC_CPUINFO)?;
+
+    let host_distro = DistroInfo {
+        name: host_distro_name,
+        version: host_distro_version,
+    };
+
+    let cores: usize = std::thread::available_parallelism()
+        .context("get available parallelism")?
+        .into();
+
+    let host_cpu = CPUInfo {
+        vendor: cpu_vendor,
+        model: cpu_model,
+        cpus: cores,
+    };
+
+    let memory_info = get_memory_info()?;
+
+    let guest_protection =
+        arch_specific::available_guest_protection().map_err(|e| anyhow!(e.to_string()))?;
+
+    let guest_protection = guest_protection.to_string();
+
+    let support_vsocks = utils::supports_vsocks(utils::VHOST_VSOCK_DEVICE)?;
+
+    Ok(HostInfo {
+        kernel: host_kernel_version,
+        architecture: String::from(std::env::consts::ARCH),
+        distro: host_distro,
+        cpu: host_cpu,
+        memory: memory_info,
+        available_guest_protection: guest_protection,
+        // TODO: See https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/6727
+        vm_container_capable: true,
+        support_vsocks,
+    })
+}
+
+pub fn get_runtime_info(toml_config: &TomlConfig) -> Result<RuntimeInfo> {
+    let version = VersionInfo {
+        semver: String::from(version::VERSION),
+        commit: String::from(version::COMMIT),
+    };
+
+    let config_path = TomlConfig::get_default_config_file();
+    let mut toml_path = String::new();
+    if config_path.is_ok() {
+        let p = config_path?;
+        let path_str = p.to_str();
+        toml_path = match path_str {
+            Some(s) => String::from(s),
+            None => String::new(),
+        };
+    }
+
+    Ok(RuntimeInfo {
+        // TODO: Needs to be implemented: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/6518
+        path: String::from("not implemented yet. See: https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/6518"),
+        version,
+        experimental: toml_config.runtime.experimental.clone(),
+        // TODO: See https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/6667
+        guest_selinux_label: String::from("not implemented yet: See https://github.com/kata-containers/kata-containers/issues/6667"),
+        debug: toml_config.runtime.debug,
+        trace: toml_config.runtime.enable_tracing,
+        disable_guest_seccomp: toml_config.runtime.disable_guest_seccomp,
+        disable_new_net_ns: toml_config.runtime.disable_new_netns,
+        sandbox_cgroup_only: toml_config.runtime.sandbox_cgroup_only,
+        static_sandbox_resource_mgmt: toml_config.runtime.static_sandbox_resource_mgmt,
+        config: RuntimeConfigInfo { path: toml_path },
+    }
+}
+
+pub fn get_agent_info(toml_config: &TomlConfig) -> Result<AgentInfo> {
+    let agent_config = toml_config
+        .agent
+        .get(&toml_config.runtime.agent_name)
+        .ok_or("could not find agent config in configuration")
+        .map_err(|e| anyhow!(e))?;
+
+    Ok(AgentInfo {
+        debug: agent_config.debug,
+        trace: agent_config.enable_tracing,
+    })
+}
+
+pub fn get_command_version(cmd: &str) -> Result<String> {
+    // Path is empty in case of dragonball hypervisor
+    if cmd.is_empty() {
+        return Ok("unknown".to_string());
+    }
+    let output = Command::new(cmd)
+        .arg("--version")
+        .output()
+        .map_err(|e| anyhow!(e))?;
+
+    let version = String::from_utf8(output.stdout).map_err(|e| anyhow!(e))?;
+
+    Ok(version)
+}
+
+pub fn get_hypervisor_info(
+    toml_config: &TomlConfig,
+) -> Result<(HypervisorInfo, ImageInfo, KernelInfo, InitrdInfo)> {
+    let hypervisor_config = toml_config
+        .hypervisor
+        .get(&toml_config.runtime.hypervisor_name)
+        .ok_or("could not find hypervisor config in configuration")
+        .map_err(|e| anyhow!(e))?;
+
+    let version =
+        get_command_version(&hypervisor_config.path).context("error getting hypervisor version")?;
+
+    let hypervisor_info = HypervisorInfo {
+        machine_type: hypervisor_config.machine_info.machine_type.to_string(),
+        machine_accelerators: hypervisor_config
+            .machine_info
+            .machine_accelerators
+            .to_string(),
+        version,
+        path: hypervisor_config.path.to_string(),
+        block_device_driver: hypervisor_config
+            .blockdev_info
+            .block_device_driver
+            .to_string(),
+        entropy_source: hypervisor_config.machine_info.entropy_source.to_string(),
+        shared_fs: hypervisor_config
+            .shared_fs
+            .shared_fs
+            .clone()
+            .unwrap_or_else(|| String::from("none")),
+        virtio_fs_daemon: hypervisor_config.shared_fs.virtio_fs_daemon.to_string(),
+        msize_9p: hypervisor_config.shared_fs.msize_9p,
+        memory_slots: hypervisor_config.memory_info.memory_slots,
+        pcie_root_port: hypervisor_config.device_info.pcie_root_port,
+        hotplug_vfio_on_rootbus: hypervisor_config.device_info.hotplug_vfio_on_root_bus,
+        debug: hypervisor_config.debug_info.enable_debug,
+        enable_iommu: hypervisor_config.device_info.enable_iommu,
+        enable_iommu_platform: hypervisor_config.device_info.enable_iommu_platform,
+        default_vcpus: hypervisor_config.cpu_info.default_vcpus,
+        cpu_features: hypervisor_config.cpu_info.cpu_features.to_string(),
+    };
+
+    let image_info = ImageInfo {
+        path: hypervisor_config.boot_info.image.clone(),
+    };
+
+    let kernel_info = KernelInfo {
+        path: hypervisor_config.boot_info.kernel.to_string(),
+        parameters: hypervisor_config.boot_info.kernel_params.to_string(),
+    };
+
+    let initrd_info = InitrdInfo {
+        path: hypervisor_config.boot_info.initrd.to_string(),
+    };
+
+    Ok((hypervisor_info, image_info, kernel_info, initrd_info))
+}
+
+pub fn get_env_info(toml_config: &TomlConfig) -> Result<EnvInfo> {
+    let metainfo = get_meta_info();
+
+    let runtime_info = get_runtime_info(toml_config).context("get runtime info")?;
+
+    let agent_info = get_agent_info(toml_config).context("get agent configuration")?;
+
+    let host_info = get_host_info().context("get host information")?;
+
+    let (hypervisor_info, _image_info, kernel_info, initrd_info) =
+        get_hypervisor_info(toml_config).context("get hypervisor configuration")?;
+
+    let env_info = EnvInfo {
+        meta: metainfo,
+        runtime: runtime_info,
+        kernel: kernel_info,
+        image: _image_info,
+        initrd: initrd_info,
+        hypervisor: hypervisor_info,
+        host: host_info,
+        agent: agent_info,
+    };
+
+    Ok(env_info)
+}
+
+pub fn handle_env(env_args: EnvArgument) -> Result<()> {
+    let (toml_config, _) = TomlConfig::load_raw_from_file("").context("load toml config")?;
+
+    let env_info = get_env_info(&toml_config)?;
+
+    if env_args.json {
+        let serialized_json = serde_json::to_string_pretty(&env_info)?;
+        println!("{}", serialized_json);
+    } else {
+        let toml = toml::to_string(&env_info)?;
+        println!("{}", toml);
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/utils.rs b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/utils.rs
index f05f3bb10..371b5165d 100644
--- a/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/utils.rs
+++ b/src/tools/kata-ctl/src/utils.rs
@@ -145,7 +145,12 @@ pub fn get_generic_cpu_details(cpu_info_file: &str) -> Result<(String, String)>
 
 pub const VHOST_VSOCK_DEVICE: &str = "/dev/vhost-vsock";
 pub fn supports_vsocks(vsock_path: &str) -> Result<bool> {
-    let metadata = fs::metadata(vsock_path)?;
+    let metadata = fs::metadata(vsock_path).map_err(|err| {
+        anyhow!(
+            "Host system does not support vhost-vsock (try running (`sudo modprobe vhost_vsock`) : {}",
+            err.to_string()
+        )
+    })?;
     Ok(metadata.is_file())
 }