Comment # 24 on bug 1219180 from Fabian Vogt

(In reply to Claudio Fontana from comment #23)
> Be careful that specifying an exact cpu as you are doing here
> 
> -cpu cortex-a72
> 
> is going to be very dependent on the exact machine you are going to run on.
> The meaning of -cpu is different than on x86.

Not sure what you mean by that.

> Does -cpu host work too? Because if it doesn't that is something we really
> want to fix.

Without KVM there's no -cpu host:

> qemu-system-aarch64 -cpu host -M virt
qemu-system-aarch64: unable to find CPU model 'host'

> Again, that is the supported and recommended option to use for ARM AArch64,
> I shared the relevant links above.