Error: “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.”
Issue
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VMware virtual machine arbitrarily rebooted with the following message visible in the VMware logs VM specific logs:
The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (All versions)
- VMware Environment
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