KVM guest is stuck in "pause" state
Issue
A guest became unavailable and when reviewing the virt-manager monitor, it showed it was in a 'paused' mode. Tried to "resume" but it does not move out of "paused" mode. Tried forcing off and rebooting. Same results it starts booting and goes into 'pause' state.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9
- KVM Virtualization
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