VMWare guest crashes with 'soft lockup' messages

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System crashes quite often and it shows soft lockup quite frequently
  • Only one guest shows the issue whilst other guests in the same hypervisor doesn't experiencing the issue

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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