KVM hypervisor displaying "vcpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr" messages

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Issue

  • What are these warning messages on the RHEL kvm hypervisor?
kvm [4514]: vcpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc1 data 0xffff
kvm [4606]: vcpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc1 data 0xffff

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
  • KVM virtualization

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