Hi there:

We got same error after disable APIC for upstream cloud image: https://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/CentOS-7-x86_64-GenericCloud-2111.qcow2

OpenStack version: rocky

host kernel: 3.10.0-1160.53.1.el7.x86_64


VM console log:
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
[    0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64 (<email address hidden>) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Oct 13 17:20:51 UTC 2021
[    0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64 root=UUID=44a6a613-4e21-478b-a909-ab653c9d39df ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 crashkernel=auto net.ifnames=0 console=ttyS0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[    0.000000] e820: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000000009fbff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000000009fc00-0x000000000009ffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000000f0000-0x00000000000fffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x0000000000100000-0x000000007ffdbfff] usable
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x000000007ffdc000-0x000000007fffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] BIOS-e820: [mem 0x00000000fffc0000-0x00000000ffffffff] reserved
[    0.000000] NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
[    0.000000] SMBIOS 2.8 present.
[    0.000000] DMI: OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Nova, BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
[    0.000000] e820: last_pfn = 0x7ffdc max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
[    0.000000] PAT configuration [0-7]: WB  WC  UC- UC  WB  WP  UC- UC  
[    0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000f63a0-0x000f63af] mapped at [ffffffffff2003a0]
[    0.000000] RAMDISK: [mem 0x32419000-0x35204fff]
[    0.000000] Early table checksum verification disabled
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f6170 00014 (v00 BOCHS )
[    0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 000000007ffe14f7 0002C (v01 BOCHS  BXPCRSDT 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000000007ffe140b 00074 (v01 BOCHS  BXPCFACP 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 000000007ffe0040 013CB (v01 BOCHS  BXPCDSDT 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[    0.000000] ACPI: FACS 000000007ffe0000 00040
[    0.000000] ACPI: APIC 000000007ffe147f 00078 (v01 BOCHS  BXPCAPIC 00000001 BXPC 00000001)
[    0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[    0.000000] Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000007ffdbfff]
[    0.000000] NODE_DATA(0) allocated [mem 0x7ffb5000-0x7ffdbfff]
[    0.000000] Reserving 161MB of memory at 640MB for crashkernel (System RAM: 2047MB)
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA      [mem 0x00001000-0x00ffffff]
[    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x01000000-0xffffffff]
[    0.000000]   Normal   empty
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00001000-0x0009efff]
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00100000-0x7ffdbfff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00001000-0x7ffdbfff]
[    0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x608
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[    0.000000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0xff] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
[    0.000000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x00] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[    0.000000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 0, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 5 global_irq 5 high level)
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 10 global_irq 10 high level)
[    0.000000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 11 global_irq 11 high level)
[    0.000000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[    0.000000] smpboot: Allowing 1 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x0009f000-0x0009ffff]
[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x000a0000-0x000effff]
[    0.000000] PM: Registered nosave memory: [mem 0x000f0000-0x000fffff]
[    0.000000] e820: [mem 0x80000000-0xfffbffff] available for PCI devices
[    0.000000] Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
[    0.000000] Detected CPU family 6h model 13
[    0.000000] Warning: AMD Processor - this hardware has not undergone upstream testing. Please consult http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ for more information
[    0.000000] setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:5120 nr_cpumask_bits:1 nr_cpu_ids:1 nr_node_ids:1
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 38 pages/cpu s118784 r8192 d28672 u2097152
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Node order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 515941
[    0.000000] Policy zone: DMA32
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64 root=UUID=44a6a613-4e21-478b-a909-ab653c9d39df ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200n8 crashkernel=auto net.ifnames=0 console=ttyS0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Memory: 1832372k/2097008k available (7796k kernel code, 392k absent, 264244k reserved, 5947k data, 1980k init)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] 	RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=5120 to nr_cpu_ids=1.
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:327936 nr_irqs:256 0
[    0.000000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[    0.000000] console [tty0] enabled
[    0.000000] console [ttyS0] enabled
[    0.000000] allocated 16777216 bytes of page_cgroup
[    0.000000] please try 'cgroup_disable=memory' option if you don't want memory cgroups
[    0.000000] tsc: Fast TSC calibration failed
[    0.000000] tsc: Unable to calibrate against PIT
[    0.000000] tsc: using PMTIMER reference calibration
[    0.000000] tsc: Detected 3696.055 MHz processor
[    0.005000] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 7392.11 BogoMIPS (lpj=3696055)
[    0.005000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.005000] Security Framework initialized
[    0.005000] SELinux:  Initializing.
[    0.005000] Yama: becoming mindful.
[    0.005000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
[    0.006000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[    0.006000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.006000] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.007000] Initializing cgroup subsys memory
[    0.007000] Initializing cgroup subsys devices
[    0.007000] Initializing cgroup subsys freezer
[    0.007100] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
[    0.007370] Initializing cgroup subsys blkio
[    0.007618] Initializing cgroup subsys perf_event
[    0.007922] Initializing cgroup subsys hugetlb
[    0.008000] Initializing cgroup subsys pids
[    0.008000] Initializing cgroup subsys net_prio
[    0.009000] Last level iTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
[    0.009000] Last level dTLB entries: 4KB 0, 2MB 0, 4MB 0
[    0.009000] tlb_flushall_shift: -1
[    0.009000] FEATURE SPEC_CTRL Not Present
[    0.009000] FEATURE IBPB_SUPPORT Not Present
[    0.009000] Spectre V1 : Mitigation: Load fences, usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
[    0.010000] Spectre V2 : Vulnerable: Retpoline without IBPB
[    0.010000] Speculative Store Bypass: Vulnerable
[    0.039000] Freeing SMP alternatives: 28k freed
[    0.040000] ACPI: Core revision 20130517
[    0.043000] ACPI: All ACPI Tables successfully acquired
[    0.043000] ftrace: allocating 29688 entries in 116 pages
[    0.049000] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[    0.051000] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[    0.051000] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ...
[    0.051000] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...
[    0.052000] ....... failed.
[    0.052000] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ...
[    0.054000] ..... failed.
[    0.054000] ...trying to set up timer as ExtINT IRQ...
[    0.057000] ..... failed :(.
[    0.057000] Kernel panic - not syncing: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work!  Boot with apic=debug and send a report.  Then try booting with the 'noapic' option.
[    0.057000] 
[    0.057000] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-1160.45.1.el7.x86_64 #1
[    0.057000] Hardware name: OpenStack Foundation OpenStack Nova, BIOS 1.11.0-2.el7 04/01/2014
[    0.057000] Call Trace:
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9b583539>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9b57d241>] panic+0xe8/0x21f
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9bba4e89>] check_timer+0x454/0x625
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9bba5883>] setup_IO_APIC+0x27f/0x2a0
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9bba12ca>] native_smp_prepare_cpus+0x342/0x3cc
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9bb8b2d8>] kernel_init_freeable+0xe8/0x249
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9b572330>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9b57233e>] kernel_init+0xe/0x100
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9b595de4>] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin+0xe/0x21
[    0.057000]  [<ffffffff9b572330>] ? rest_init+0x80/0x80

VM XML:

<domain type='qemu' id='14'>
  <name>instance-0000004c</name>
  <uuid>dd7294d2-f226-4a5c-901d-9d13d1c090f5</uuid>
  <metadata>
    <nova:instance xmlns:nova="http://openstack.org/xmlns/libvirt/nova/1.0">
      <nova:package version="18.2.4"/>
      <nova:name>centos7-vm-2</nova:name>
      <nova:creationTime>2022-07-12 10:51:32</nova:creationTime>
      <nova:flavor name="max2">
        <nova:memory>2048</nova:memory>
        <nova:disk>20</nova:disk>
        <nova:swap>0</nova:swap>
        <nova:ephemeral>0</nova:ephemeral>
        <nova:vcpus>1</nova:vcpus>
      </nova:flavor>
      <nova:owner>
        <nova:user uuid="37ca630955904090b7ea59748b180a20">admin</nova:user>
        <nova:project uuid="8e957fe9c73c41b08252bc5943c195fa">admin</nova:project>
      </nova:owner>
      <nova:root type="image" uuid="2eb774b2-19fd-4dab-9040-7283c85c0a08"/>
    </nova:instance>
  </metadata>
  <memory unit='KiB'>2097152</memory>
  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>2097152</currentMemory>
  <vcpu placement='static'>1</vcpu>
  <cputune>
    <shares>1024</shares>
  </cputune>
  <resource>
    <partition>/machine</partition>
  </resource>
  <sysinfo type='smbios'>
    <system>
      <entry name='manufacturer'>OpenStack Foundation</entry>
      <entry name='product'>OpenStack Nova</entry>
      <entry name='version'>18.2.4</entry>
      <entry name='serial'>6f3f861f-f232-b744-b136-aae4c63cea49</entry>
      <entry name='uuid'>dd7294d2-f226-4a5c-901d-9d13d1c090f5</entry>
      <entry name='family'>Virtual Machine</entry>
    </system>
  </sysinfo>
  <os>
    <type arch='x86_64' machine='pc-i440fx-rhel7.6.0'>hvm</type>
    <boot dev='hd'/>
    <smbios mode='sysinfo'/>
  </os>
  <features>
    <acpi/>
  </features>
  <cpu>
    <topology sockets='1' cores='1' threads='1'/>
  </cpu>
  <clock offset='utc'/>
  <on_poweroff>destroy</on_poweroff>
  <on_reboot>restart</on_reboot>
  <on_crash>destroy</on_crash>
  <devices>
    <emulator>/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm</emulator>
    <disk type='file' device='disk'>
      <driver name='qemu' type='qcow2' cache='none'/>
      <source file='/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/dd7294d2-f226-4a5c-901d-9d13d1c090f5/disk'/>
      <backingStore type='file' index='1'>
        <format type='raw'/>
        <source file='/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/_base/f545bc754fcefe3a6762fdc4ef415b970679bf94'/>
        <backingStore/>
      </backingStore>
      <target dev='vda' bus='virtio'/>
      <alias name='virtio-disk0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x04' function='0x0'/>
    </disk>
    <controller type='usb' index='0' model='piix3-uhci'>
      <alias name='usb'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x01' function='0x2'/>
    </controller>
    <controller type='pci' index='0' model='pci-root'>
      <alias name='pci.0'/>
    </controller>
    <interface type='bridge'>
      <mac address='fa:16:3e:55:8f:bc'/>
      <source bridge='br-int'/>
      <virtualport type='openvswitch'>
        <parameters interfaceid='55e16efe-848e-4438-bd38-594e1d52a2d2'/>
      </virtualport>
      <target dev='tap55e16efe-84'/>
      <model type='virtio'/>
      <driver name='qemu'/>
      <mtu size='1500'/>
      <alias name='net0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function='0x0'/>
    </interface>
    <serial type='pty'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/10'/>
      <log file='/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/dd7294d2-f226-4a5c-901d-9d13d1c090f5/console.log' append='off'/>
      <target type='isa-serial' port='0'>
        <model name='isa-serial'/>
      </target>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </serial>
    <console type='pty' tty='/dev/pts/10'>
      <source path='/dev/pts/10'/>
      <log file='/opt/stack/data/nova/instances/dd7294d2-f226-4a5c-901d-9d13d1c090f5/console.log' append='off'/>
      <target type='serial' port='0'/>
      <alias name='serial0'/>
    </console>
    <input type='mouse' bus='ps2'>
      <alias name='input0'/>
    </input>
    <input type='keyboard' bus='ps2'>
      <alias name='input1'/>
    </input>
    <graphics type='vnc' port='5908' autoport='yes' listen='0.0.0.0'>
      <listen type='address' address='0.0.0.0'/>
    </graphics>
    <video>
      <model type='cirrus' vram='16384' heads='1' primary='yes'/>
      <alias name='video0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x02' function='0x0'/>
    </video>
    <memballoon model='virtio'>
      <stats period='10'/>
      <alias name='balloon0'/>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x05' function='0x0'/>
    </memballoon>
  </devices>
  <seclabel type='dynamic' model='dac' relabel='yes'>
    <label>+107:+107</label>
    <imagelabel>+107:+107</imagelabel>
  </seclabel>
</domain>