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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: A simple question of CPU emulation in Xen
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 15:51:10 +0100
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On Fri, 13 May 2011 22:41:44 +0800
MaoXiaoyun <tinnycloud@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi :
>  
>      I have a simple question on CPU emulation in Xen.
>  
>     Currently, inside guest, we can see that the CPU information incluing types and frequency is exactly
> same as physical CPU. Is it possible for Xen(or qemu) to emulate a different type of CPU. That is inside 
> guest, we see a different CPU types?

Qemu supports a huge range of CPU and platform emulations, www.qemu.org.
Most of this falls outside of Xen as Qemu doesn't need or benefit from
Xen or KVM when doing cross cpu emulation.