Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] expose host CPU features to guests: Take 3

[Avi K. <av...@qu...>]

Paul Brook wrote:
>> Indeed for regular qemu this is useless.  But it is useful for kqemu
>> (for which there is support in mainline qemu), and for kvm (which we
>> hope to merge one day).
>>     
>
> And, as discussed before, it should be asking the hypervisor what features it 
> supports instead of trying to guess from the cpuid output.
>   

Agreed.

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