fix(quickemu): skip x86 CPU feature checks on Apple Silicon#1810
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When using TCG emulation for cross-architecture VMs (e.g., x86_64 guest on arm64 host), skip the SSE/AVX CPU feature detection since QEMU emulates these features in software. This fixes macOS guest startup on Apple Silicon Macs. Fixes #1457
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When using TCG emulation for cross-architecture VMs (e.g., x86_64 guest on arm64 host), skip the SSE/AVX CPU feature detection since QEMU emulates these features in software. This fixes macOS guest startup on Apple Silicon Macs.
Fixes #1457
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