Applying Intel CPU microcode update

Siddhesh Poyarekar spoyarek at redhat.com
Thu Feb 4 10:02:18 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 05:02:12AM -0500, Kamil Paral wrote:
> I often use Rawhide in virt-manager using KVM. My host machine is Fedora
> 12. Recently I noticed that booting Rawhide takes ages. After more careful
> examination I found out that "Applying Intel CPU microcode update" line
> pauses the system exactly for 1 minute. Then the boot continues. I don't
> know if it is a problem in Rawhide or in some update of libvirt.
> 
> Anyone seen similar problem?

I've noticed this too. The `modprobe microcode` seems to take about a minute or so. This probably needs a bug report,

- Siddhesh


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