I was seeing this problem when my Debian laptop suspended. The CentOS guest would begin consuming a lot of cpu and only a hard-reset would fix it.
Changing the rtc line to <timer name='rtc' track='guest'/> seems to have fixed it, though I haven't done extensive testing yet. Thanks! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1174654 Title: qemu-system-x86_64 takes 100% CPU after host machine resumed from suspend to ram Status in QEMU: Confirmed Status in qemu package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I have Windows XP SP3 inside qemu VM. All works fine in 12.10. But after upgraiding to 13.04 i have to restart the VM each time i resuming my host machine, because qemu process starts to take CPU cycles and OS inside VM is very slow and sluggish. However it's still controllable and could be shutdown by itself. According to the taskmgr any active process takes 99% CPU. It's not stuck on some single process. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1174654/+subscriptions