Getting following stop error while creating windows 2016 in KVM based environment, then try mentioned steps.
Stop Error: “System Thread Exception Not Handled”
Cause: Main cause of above error is unsupported CPU on your KVM node.
Check VPS/VM creation and boot logs on node. It should come with similar logs as follows.
SMP: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009d000 – 000000000009e000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009e000 – 00000000000a0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 – 00000000000f0000
PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000f0000 – 0000000000100000
Allocating PCI resources starting at 1f400000 (gap: 1f400000:e0bbc000)
Booting paravirtualized kernel on KVM
Detected CPU family 6 model 94
UNSUPPORTED HARDWARE DEVICE: Intel CPU model
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WARNING: at kernel/rh_taint.c:13 mark_hardware_unsupported+0x34/0x40() (Not tainted)
Hardware name: KVM
Your hardware is unsupported. Please do not report bugs, panics, oopses, etc., on this hardware.
Modules linked in:
Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.32-504.el6.x86_64 #1
Call Trace:
[] ? warn_slowpath_common+0x87/0xc0
[] ? warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[] ? mark_hardware_unsupported+0x34/0x40
[] ? setup_arch+0xc46/0xc69
[] ? printk+0x41/0x44
[] ? start_kernel+0xdc/0x430
[] ? x86_64_start_reservations+0x125/0x129
[] ? x86_64_start_kernel+0x115/0x124
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NR_CPUS:4096 nr_cpumask_bits:1 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1
PERCPU: Embedded 31 pages/cpu @ffff880002200000 s95064 r8192 d23720 u2097152
pcpu-alloc: s95064 r8192 d23720 u2097152 alloc=1*2097152
pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
kvm-clock: cpu 0, msr 0:2216841, primary cpu clock
kvm-stealtime: cpu 0, msr 220e880
Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 126045
Policy zone: DMA32
Kernel
Try migrating the vm on another node which has better CPU model then this server.
You can try to add following to virtual machine’s config file
<cpu match =’exact’ Model=’host-model’>
<model fallback=’allow’>core2duo</model>
Hope that helps yo to fix your issue.
Regards.
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