Windows 2008 guests randomly crash with BSOD and error: "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval"

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Windows 2008 guests randomly crash with "Blue screen of death" (BSOD) with the below error:

    "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval"

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 & 6
  • XEN
  • KVM
  • Windows 2008 guest OS

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