qemu-kvm process on a RHEV host encountered a SIGABRT, generating a process core file.

Issue

• A process core file was found on a RHEV host;

# file core.4944
core.4944: ELF 64-bit LSB core file x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from '/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name guest-A -S -M rhel6.3.0 -cpu Westmere -enable-kvm'

• qemu-kvm process on a RHEV host encountered a SIGABRT, generating a process core file;

# gdb core.4944 
GNU gdb (GDB) Red Hat Enterprise Linux (7.2-56.el6)
........ etc., etc., .......
Core was generated by `/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -name guest-A -S -M rhel6.3.0 -cpu Westmere -enable-kvm'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.