On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 05:57:45PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote: > Start VM with 8 multiple-function block devs, hot-removing > those block devs by 'device_del ...' would cause qemu abort. > > | (qemu) device_del virti0-0-0 > | (qemu) ** > |ERROR:qom/object.c:389:object_delete: assertion failed: (obj->ref == 0) > > It's a regression introduced by commit 57c9fafe >
I found a similar assertion where the parent reference isn't cleared, doing: (qemu) device_add pci-bridge in the monitor. I posted for patches for it under: Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] pci: hotplug bridge fixes It's still an issue with the current tree. Thanks, -Jason