As discussed during the community call, -cpu qemu64 breaks for a bunch of workloads, most prominently recent gcc versions thanks to libgmp.
To work around this and to also give the user the best possible performance when running with default command line options, let's use -cpu host as default when running with KVM enabled! Alexander Graf (3): pc: add compat machine types for 0.14 and 0.15 pc: use old default cpu type for 0.14 and 0.15 compat machines pc: use -cpu host as default for kvm hw/pc.c | 9 +++++++-- hw/pc_piix.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.7.3.4