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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/2] allow hypervisor CPUID bit to be
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@amd.com>, aliguori@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org

> I agree it's pointless, but it is a Microsoft requirement for passing
> their SVVP tests.  Enabling it by default makes life a little easier for
> users who wish to validate their hypervisor and has no drawbacks.

I wasn't arguing against setting it by default (for QEMU CPU types), just 
against enabling it unconditionally.

Paul