The suggested patch in my original report is already applied.

Instead, I believe this is an issue under KVM where the MSR powertop is
using (IA32_APERF, 0xe8) is an unimplemented MSR.

http://www.spinics.net/lists/kvm/msg120054.html

Ideally powertop would detect it's running under KVM and avoid using
unimplemented MSRs.  For example if could skip sampling the IA32_APERF
MSR and use only TSC records.

Alternatively, powertop could have a more robust get_msr() method which
handled failure with fallback behavior (and warn of reduced accuracy due
to unavailable MSRs).

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