I didn't have cpuid installed on my system, but I imagine that libvirt is using the instruction cpuid, not a userspace program.
eax in eax ebx ecx edx
00000000 0000000d 756e6547 6c65746e 49656e69
00000001 000306c3 01100800 7ffafbff bfebfbff
00000002 76036301 00f0b5ff 00000000 00c10000
00000003 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000004 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000005 00000040 00000040 00000003 00042120
00000006 00000077 00000002 00000009 00000000
00000007 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000008 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000009 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000a 07300403 00000000 00000000 00000603
0000000b 00000000 00000000 0000006f 00000001
0000000c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
0000000d 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000000 80000008 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000001 00000000 00000000 00000021 2c100800
80000002 65746e49 2952286c 726f4320 4d542865
80000003 37692029 3737342d 50432030 20402055
80000004 30342e33 007a4847 00000000 00000000
80000005 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
80000006 00000000 00000000 01006040 00000000
80000007 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000100
80000008 00003027 00000000 00000000 00000000
Vendor ID: "GenuineIntel"; CPUID level 13
Intel-specific functions:
Version 000306c3:
Type 0 - Original OEM
Family 6 - Pentium Pro
Model 12 -
Stepping 3
Reserved 12
Extended brand string: "Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz"
CLFLUSH instruction cache line size: 8
Initial APIC ID: 1
Hyper threading siblings: 16
Feature flags bfebfbff:
FPU Floating Point Unit
VME Virtual 8086 Mode Enhancements
DE Debugging Extensions
PSE Page Size Extensions
TSC Time Stamp Counter
MSR Model Specific Registers
PAE Physical Address Extension
MCE Machine Check Exception
CX8 COMPXCHG8B Instruction
APIC On-chip Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller present and enabled
SEP Fast System Call
MTRR Memory Type Range Registers
PGE PTE Global Flag
MCA Machine Check Architecture
CMOV Conditional Move and Compare Instructions
FGPAT Page Attribute Table
PSE-36 36-bit Page Size Extension
CLFSH CFLUSH instruction
DS Debug store
ACPI Thermal Monitor and Clock Ctrl
MMX MMX instruction set
FXSR Fast FP/MMX Streaming SIMD Extensions save/restore
SSE Streaming SIMD Extensions instruction set
SSE2 SSE2 extensions
SS Self Snoop
HT Hyper Threading
TM Thermal monitor
31 reserved
TLB and cache info:
63: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
03: Data TLB: 4KB pages, 4-way set assoc, 64 entries
76: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
ff: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
b5: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
f0: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
c1: unknown TLB/cache descriptor
Processor serial: 0003-06C3-0000-0000-0000-0000