Why does a RHEL5 KVM guest kernel panics on boot with the message "IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!"?
Issue
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The KVM guest kernel intermittently panics on boot with the below message.
"Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work! Try using the 'noapic' kernel parameter"
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x86_64 KVM guest.
kernelversion 2.6.18-274.18.1.el5 or earlier.divider=10in kernel boot command line.
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