Error: “The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. Power off or reset the virtual machine.”

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • 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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