[CentOS] kvm: C8 as guest on C6 host / huge delay while booting

Sat May 16 15:09:22 UTC 2020
Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>

Am 11.05.20 um 15:59 schrieb Leon Fauster:
> Since C8.1  kvm guests have a huge delay while booting on a kvm host 
> based on C6. This delay was not present with C8.0. The "pause" happend
> direct after the grub step. The VNC session shows only a "_" character.
> 

and this are the corresponding logs. The guest system continues to boot 
after ~5 minutes. At that point this appears

May 16 16:44:14 ev kernel: kvm: 8458: cpu0 unhandled rdmsr: 0x140
May 16 16:44:14 ev kernel: kvm: 8458: cpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc2 
data 0xffff
May 16 16:44:14 ev kernel: kvm: 8458: cpu1 unhandled rdmsr: 0x140
May 16 16:44:14 ev kernel: kvm: 8458: cpu2 unhandled rdmsr: 0x140
May 16 16:44:14 ev kernel: kvm: 8458: cpu3 unhandled rdmsr: 0x140
May 16 16:44:15 ev kernel: kvm: emulating exchange as write

Any ideas?

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Leon