How to panic a hung RHEL Guest on a Hyper V host using an NMI

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Issue

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux guest is unresponsive
  • When system is hung, you are unable to panic the system using the sysrq trigger

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, or 7
  • Hyper V host environment (must be Hyper V 2012 R2 or later)

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