Time-Drift issues being observed when NMI watchdog is enabled for virtual machines running on RHEV
Issue
- Whenever divider=10 notsc kernel parameter are set, The VM receives NMI errors on bootup.
- If these parameters are removed - The NMI errors are not observed.
- But these parameters are necessary to prevent the Time-Drift issue on the VM.
- Since moving from RHEV 2.2 to 3.0 now seeing virtual machines time drift.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux guests
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