Windows guests on RHEV freeze or generate a BSOD randomly
Issue
- Windows XP machines fall into a BSOD ("Blue Screen of Death"), totally freeze, or crash if the virtio-serial port is overloaded.
- Why are all of the RHEV guests on a host randomly freezing at the same time?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0, 3.1, 3.2
- Guest: Windows with
virtio-win-1.6.4-1.el6_4
(and earlier) orrhev-guest-tools-iso-3.1-12
(and earlier) orrhev-guest-tools-iso-3.2-8
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