kvm uart emulation broken for non-linux guest OS' in RHEL5

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • A non-linux guest that uses the uart(4) driver instead of sio(4) for serial console redirection will hang consistently during boot.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.8
  • kvm-83-249.el5_8.4

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