'CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT (101)' BSOD on Windows KVM guests
Issue
Windows guests running on KVM hosts produce BSODs with the following error:
CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT (101)
An expected clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor in an MP system within the allocated interval. This indicates that the specified processor is hung and not processing interrupts.
Environment
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 KVM host
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 (or earlier) KVM host
• Microsoft Windows guests
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