From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40417) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQHBg-0004M9-PJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 15:00:09 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQHBd-0006VE-NA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 15:00:08 -0400 Received: from mail.windriver.com ([147.11.1.11]:56136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQHBd-0006Md-E0 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2018 15:00:05 -0400 Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com ([147.11.189.40]) by mail.windriver.com (8.15.2/8.15.1) with ESMTPS id w55HAMT9010876 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2018 10:10:22 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5B16C3FC.60402@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2018 11:10:20 -0600 From: Chris Friesen MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] The side effect of changing Processor Brand string? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On 06/04/2018 10:09 PM, You, Lizhen wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to change the Processor Brand > String(CPUID[0x80000002|0x80000003|0x80000004]) of my guest OSS cpu model to > a string that won't be standard Intel or AMD related processor brand string. > Would this change have any side effect on the applications that run on this > guest? Seems some application would check the Processor Brand String for > choosing different code path, for eg Oracle database? Unless you know exactly what code will be running in the guest, I don't think it's possible to answer whether it would impact the code running in the guest. Chris