KVM Guest pauses after upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04

As outlined here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1813165/comments/15  

After upgrade, all KVM guests are in a default pause state. Even after forcing them off via virsh, and restarting them the guests are paused.

These Guests are not nested.

A lot of diganostic information are outlined in the previous bug report link provided. The solution mentioned in previous report had been allegedly integrated into the downstream updates.