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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:37:34 -0600
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] cpuid problem in upstream qemu with kvm
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, avi@redhat.com

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> I don't think it does: cpuid is an unpriveledged operation,
> is it not?
>   

We (qemu) ask the kernel (kvm.ko) to filter out the features bits from 
the cpuid we expose to the guest in order to remove feature bits it 
(kvm.ko) does not support.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori