VMs pause randomly and "KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0xN" is reported
Issue
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VMs pause randomly.
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KVM reports
hardware errorin qemu logs, e.g.
KVM: entry failed, hardware error 0x4
- Running Hardware Diagnostics doesn't indicate any hardware problem.
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.x
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This was seen on a RHEL/KVM platform, but could also occur on a Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) host.
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