Re: [Qemu-devel] The side effect of changing Processor Brand string?

[Chris Friesen]

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