High idle load with Windows XP in KVM

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

Windows XP guests are having high CPU usage even when gues is idle.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5
  • KVM Virtualisation
  • Windows XP guest

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