It seems "name" is not mandatory, and the following command line (based on one generated by current libvirt) will crash qemu at start:
qemu-system-x86_64 \ -device virtio-serial-pci \ -device virtserialport,name=foo \ -device virtconsole Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. __strcmp_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strcmp.S:210 210 movlpd (%rsi), %xmm2 Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install python-libs-2.7.5-13.fc20.x86_64 (gdb) bt #0 __strcmp_ssse3 () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strcmp.S:210 #1 0x000055555566bdc6 in find_port_by_name (name=0x0) at /home/elmarco/src/qemu/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c:67 Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@gmail.com> --- hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c b/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c index 3931085..f16452e 100644 --- a/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c +++ b/hw/char/virtio-serial-bus.c @@ -871,7 +871,7 @@ static void virtser_port_device_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp) return; } - if (find_port_by_name(port->name)) { + if (port->name != NULL && find_port_by_name(port->name)) { error_setg(errp, "virtio-serial-bus: A port already exists by name %s", port->name); return; -- 1.9.3