VM fails to start after hypervisor update

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

Standalone KVM Hypervisor reports the following:

error: Failed to start domain vmname
error: the CPU is incompatible with host CPU: Host CPU does not provide required features: spec-ctrl

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x

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