[libvirt] cpu flags

[Ben Guthro <bguthro virtualiron com>]

Hi,

We're finding that we are going to be needing the cpu flags (as reported 
in /proc/cpuinfo)
...specifically to find out if we are a vmx enabled machine.

So - off I went looking into this for a patch to submit upstream.
Unfortunately, I ran into some questions which need answering before I 
really proceed with this

It seems to me that this info would best be parsed in src/nodeinfo.c
This is where other cpuinfo things are parsed...and stored in the 
nodeinfo struct
Perhaps we store this as a bitmask encoded int, as defined in 
/usr/include/asm/cpufeature.h and tack this onto the end of sad struct.

My concern is that adding to the nodeinfo struct breaks the API - such 
that the structs will be different sizes between versions.

Also - this seems to be x86 specific. Are we primarily destined for x86? 
Or would this type of change be unacceptable due to not working on PPC, 
for example?

Thoughts?

Ben