Hi, (at least) AMD CPUs feature extended family/model bits in CPUID leaf 0000_0001|EAX. Refer to page 10 in: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/25481.pdf Those bits are necessary to model newer AMD CPUs: -cpu qemu64,family=15,model=65,stepping=3 or -cpu qemu64,family=16,model=4,stepping=2 Attached patch introduces support for specifying those bits on the command line and passing them to the guest. (Patch applies against qemu-svn and kvm-userspace) Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara Regards, Andre. P.S. I heard of a way to propagate the host CPUID bits to the guest, like -cpu=host, but couldn't find any code. Did I miss something? -- Andre Przywara AMD-Operating System Research Center (OSRC), Dresden, Germany Tel: +49 351 277-84917 ----to satisfy European Law for business letters: AMD Saxony Limited Liability Company & Co. KG, Wilschdorfer Landstr. 101, 01109 Dresden, Germany Register Court Dresden: HRA 4896, General Partner authorized to represent: AMD Saxony LLC (Wilmington, Delaware, US) General Manager of AMD Saxony LLC: Dr. Hans-R. Deppe, Thomas McCoy