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From 00b829acdf83904e5fbae21130853247b36f2348 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:42:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] launch: libvirt: Enable <cpu mode=host-model>.

This may still cause problems on some CPUs because of a bug
in libvirt.  See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870071

(cherry picked from commit 6f76fdb41eb6bd124fbc3d084f5c2a3371b37d9b)
---
 src/launch-libvirt.c | 8 ++------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/launch-libvirt.c b/src/launch-libvirt.c
index 6fcb880..e6f6b0b 100644
--- a/src/launch-libvirt.c
+++ b/src/launch-libvirt.c
@@ -820,13 +820,10 @@ construct_libvirt_xml_cpu (guestfs_h *g,
   XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterWriteFormatString (xo, "%d", g->memsize));
   XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterEndElement (xo));
 
-  /* It would be faster to pass the CPU host model to the appliance,
+  /* It is faster to pass the CPU host model to the appliance,
    * allowing maximum speed for things like checksums, encryption.
-   * However this doesn't work because KVM doesn't emulate all of the
-   * required guest insns (RHBZ#870071).  This is why the following
-   * section is commented out.
+   * Note this may cause problems on some CPUs.  See: RHBZ#870071.
    */
-#if 0
   XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterStartElement (xo, BAD_CAST "cpu"));
   XMLERROR (-1,
             xmlTextWriterWriteAttribute (xo, BAD_CAST "mode",
@@ -837,7 +834,6 @@ construct_libvirt_xml_cpu (guestfs_h *g,
                                          BAD_CAST "allow"));
   XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterEndElement (xo));
   XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterEndElement (xo));
-#endif
 
   XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterStartElement (xo, BAD_CAST "vcpu"));
   XMLERROR (-1, xmlTextWriterWriteFormatString (xo, "%d", g->smp));
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