Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
---
 tests/vm/basevm.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/vm/basevm.py b/tests/vm/basevm.py
index 04089cd545..1f4ad04c32 100755
--- a/tests/vm/basevm.py
+++ b/tests/vm/basevm.py
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ class BaseVM(object):
             self._stdout = self._devnull
         self._args = [ \
             "-nodefaults", "-m", "2G",
-            "-cpu", "host",
             "-netdev", "user,id=vnet,hostfwd=:127.0.0.1:0-:22",
             "-device", "virtio-net-pci,netdev=vnet",
             "-vnc", "127.0.0.1:0,to=20",
@@ -79,8 +78,10 @@ class BaseVM(object):
             self._args += ["-smp", str(vcpus)]
         if kvm_available():
             self._args += ["-enable-kvm"]
+            self._args += ["-cpu", "host"]
         else:
             logging.info("KVM not available, not using -enable-kvm")
+            self._args += ["-cpu", "max"]
         self._data_args = []
 
     def _download_with_cache(self, url, sha256sum=None):
-- 
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