ARAT feature was first introduced in QEMU 2.4.0, which means host-model CPU mode is unusable with QEMU < 2.4.0 on any host CPU which supports ARAT. Let's not include this feature in host-model CPUs unless a user explicitly asks for it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Denemark <jdenemar(a)redhat.com&gt; --- Notes: We will do this properly in the future since we will ask QEMU what CPU features it understands and what it thinks about host CPU. However, the required QMP interface is not upstream yet. src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c index cfd090c3f..2da4c76ab 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c @@ -2959,7 +2959,8 @@ virQEMUCapsCPUFilterFeatures(const char *name, { if (STREQ(name, "cmt") || STREQ(name, "mbm_total") || - STREQ(name, "mbm_local")) + STREQ(name, "mbm_local") || + STREQ(name, "arat")) return false; return true; -- 2.11.0.rc2