<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">There are definitely easier ways to do this than recompiling QEMU.  I favor a wrapper script such that you simply replace the <emulator> in the domain XML with the wrapper and it works automatically, something like:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">$ cat /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm-hv-vendor </div><div class="gmail_extra">#!/bin/sh</div><div><div>exec /usr/bin/qemu-kvm \</div></div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre">  </span>`echo "\$@" | sed 's|hv_time|hv_time,hv_vendor_id=KeenlyKVM|g'`<br></div></div></div>