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36.10. Microcode error during guest boot

During the boot phase of your virtual machine you may see an error message similar to:
Applying Intel CPU microcode update: FATAL: Module microcode not found.
ERROR: Module microcode does not exist in /proc/modules
As the virtual machine is running on virtual CPUs there is no point updating the microcode. Disabling the microcode update for your virtual machines will stop this error:
/sbin/service microcode_ctl stop
/sbin/chkconfig --del microcode_ctl