My physical system is a Fedora 15 x86_64 system with an Intel Core2 
Duo E6320 processor that supports virtualization.

I have Windows Xp installed onto a qcow2 virtual machine. I call it 
like so:

qemu-kvm -enable-kvm -cpu core2duo -m 1024 -boot c -vga std -soundhw 
pcspk,es1370 -localtime -hda win-c.img -hdb win-e.img -cdrom /dev/sr0

1. Do I need the -enable-kvm argument in the line above?

2. qemu-kvm -cpu ? mentions the arguments -cpu core2duo, kvm64, qemu64 
and others, but, from the list provided, it is unclear which I am to 
use. I have been using core2duo. Does this refer to my physical or 
virtual computer? Which should I choose? I want my virtual machine to 
be as close as possible to a clone of my real machine, for the 
purposes of running the virtual machine.

3. I read about getting better performance using the virtio driver. 
Can it be used with qemu-kvm or only with libvirt? If I can use it, 
how would I do so? I don't see any mention of it in the qemu 
documentation, nor does there appear to be anywhere in the virtual 
system's device manager where I can select a different driver for the 
hard drive.

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