Windows 2008 guests randomly crash with BSOD and error: "A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval"
Issue
Windows 2008 guests randomly crash with "Blue screen of death" (BSOD) with the below error:
"A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 5 & 6
- XEN
- KVM
- Windows 2008 guest OS
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