I have seen this issue on Linux VMs too. A reboot of the VM instance helps 
workaround this.

From: Zuo Changqian [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 10:34 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Openstack] [Nova] KVM Windows Guest disk hot plugging support.

Hi

Currently we use Cpeh RBD as cinder volume. According to 
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Hotadd_pci_devices, we have Linux KVM guest (both 
CentOS 6.x and Ubuntu 12.04) support disk hot plugging, it works well.
But there is problem with Windows 2008 guest (2003 not tested). Described below:

1) Launch an Windows 2008 instance (with RedHat Virtio Driver installed), and 
attach a volume (newly created with nothing inside) to it, the volume would be 
successfully attached to /dev/vdb.
2) In Windows (guest machine), format this newly added disk. After formatting, 
it will show up in "My Computer" windows. Create any file (readme.txt with some 
text in it for example) inside the new disk. Then deatch the volume.

After about one or two minute, a message box would show up in Windows, saying 
that the device not properly removed, and the newly added disk would still show 
in "My Computer" window. But with "cinder list" command, we can see that the 
volume was successfully detached.

3) Now reattach to volume to instance, it would failed.

Libvirt log shows:
error : qemuMonitorJSONCheckError:357 : internal error unable to execute QEMU 
command '__com.redhat_drive_add': Duplicate ID 'drive-virtio-disk1' for drive

I googled yesterday afternoon, didn't find useful information. Would any one 
tell me whether Windows 2003/2008 as kvm fully virtualized guest supports disk 
hot plugging and removing or not? Or any possibility I have got something wrong?

Thanks for help!
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