[As of 22-SEP-2015; Tested with version qemu-2.3.0-6.fc22.x86_64] $ qemu-system-x86_64 -cpu \? x86 qemu64 QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.3.0 x86 phenom AMD Phenom(tm) 9550 Quad-Core Processor x86 core2duo Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz x86 kvm64 Common KVM processor x86 qemu32 QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.3.0 x86 kvm32 Common 32-bit KVM processor x86 coreduo Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2600 @ 2.16GHz x86 486 x86 pentium x86 pentium2 x86 pentium3 x86 athlon QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.3.0 x86 n270 Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz x86 Conroe Intel Celeron_4x0 (Conroe/Merom Class Core 2) x86 Penryn Intel Core 2 Duo P9xxx (Penryn Class Core 2) x86 Nehalem Intel Core i7 9xx (Nehalem Class Core i7) x86 Westmere Westmere E56xx/L56xx/X56xx (Nehalem-C) x86 SandyBridge Intel Xeon E312xx (Sandy Bridge) x86 IvyBridge Intel Xeon E3-12xx v2 (Ivy Bridge) x86 Haswell-noTSX Intel Core Processor (Haswell, no TSX) x86 Haswell Intel Core Processor (Haswell) x86 Broadwell-noTSX Intel Core Processor (Broadwell, no TSX) x86 Broadwell Intel Core Processor (Broadwell) x86 Opteron_G1 AMD Opteron 240 (Gen 1 Class Opteron) x86 Opteron_G2 AMD Opteron 22xx (Gen 2 Class Opteron) x86 Opteron_G3 AMD Opteron 23xx (Gen 3 Class Opteron) x86 Opteron_G4 AMD Opteron 62xx class CPU x86 Opteron_G5 AMD Opteron 63xx class CPU x86 host KVM processor with all supported host features (only available in KVM mode) Recognized CPUID flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 pn clflush ds acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm ia64 pbe pni|sse3 pclmulqdq|pclmuldq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cid fma cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4.1|sse4_1 sse4.2|sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt tsc-deadline aes xsave osxsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor fsgsbase tsc_adjust bmi1 hle avx2 smep bmi2 erms invpcid rtm mpx avx512f rdseed adx smap avx512pf avx512er avx512cd syscall nx|xd mmxext fxsr_opt|ffxsr pdpe1gb rdtscp lm|i64 3dnowext 3dnow lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8legacy abm sse4a misalignsse 3dnowprefetch osvw ibs xop skinit wdt lwp fma4 tce nodeid_msr tbm topoext perfctr_core perfctr_nb invtsc xstore xstore-en xcrypt xcrypt-en ace2 ace2-en phe phe-en pmm pmm-en kvmclock kvm_nopiodelay kvm_mmu kvmclock kvm_asyncpf kvm_steal_time kvm_pv_eoi kvm_pv_unhalt kvmclock-stable-bit npt lbrv svm_lock nrip_save tsc_scale vmcb_clean flushbyasid decodeassists pause_filter pfthreshold xsaveopt xsavec xgetbv1 xsaves