Fully-virtualized Xen guests experience time drift or soft lockups

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Issue

Fully-virtualized Xen guests running under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 experience time drift or fail to boot.  In some cases, drifting may start after migration of the virtual machine to a host with different speed.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 running the Xen hypervisor

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