Windows 7 kvm guest fails with a blue screen error on RHEL 6.3

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • On RHEL 6.3, using qemu-kvm with virtio-win, a Windows 7 guest fails with a blue screen error
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION - stop 0x0000003b

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
  • virtio-win-1.6.1-2
  • Microsoft Windows 7

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