We have found that qemu cannot plug in the previously unplugged device. start qemu with the following command: ./qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 8192 -smp 16 \ -object memory-backend-file,id=mem,size=8192M,mem-path=/dev/hugepages,share=on \ -numa node,memdev=mem -mem-prealloc \ ... -chardev socket,id=drive-virtio-disk1,path=/var/run/spdk/vhost_blk_socket-30dcf467-486a-45cf-b754-093bf5cf24d1,reconnect=10 \ -device vhost-user-blk-pci,chardev=drive-virtio-disk1,num-queues=1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,id=virtio-disk1 \ ...
(qemu) info chardev serial0: filename=pty:/dev/pts/0 drive-virtio-disk1: filename=unix: charmonitor: filename=unix:/usr/local/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-55-e59039db-d576-40db-a/monitor.sock,server (qemu) device_del virtio-disk1 (qemu) chardev-remove drive-virtio-disk1 (qemu) info chardev serial0: filename=pty:/dev/pts/0 charmonitor: filename=unix:/usr/local/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/domain-55-e59039db-d576-40db-a/monitor.sock,server (qemu) chardev-add socket,id=drive-virtio-disk1,path=/var/run/spdk/vhost_blk_socket-30dcf467-486a-45cf-b754-093bf5cf24d1,reconnect=10 device failed: Duplicate ID 'drive-virtio-disk1' for chardev Error: Parsing chardev args failed The root cause of this issue is that the QemuOpts is still reserved in vm_config_groups list, so qemu_opts_create will fail with the error above. So the QemuOpts should be removed when invoking qmp_chardev_remove. Signed-off-by: Zhoujian Yu <win...@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Lei Wang <kaierw...@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Xun Ni <richar...@tencent.com> Reviewed-by: Zhigang Lu <tonn...@tencent.com> --- chardev/char.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c index 398f09d..d2087bd 100644 --- a/chardev/char.c +++ b/chardev/char.c @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ #include "qemu/help_option.h" #include "qemu/module.h" #include "qemu/option.h" +#include "qemu/option_int.h" #include "qemu/id.h" #include "qemu/coroutine.h" #include "qemu/yank.h" @@ -1159,6 +1160,7 @@ ChardevReturn *qmp_chardev_change(const char *id, ChardevBackend *backend, void qmp_chardev_remove(const char *id, Error **errp) { Chardev *chr; + QemuOpts *opts; chr = qemu_chr_find(id); if (chr == NULL) { @@ -1175,6 +1177,10 @@ void qmp_chardev_remove(const char *id, Error **errp) return; } object_unparent(OBJECT(chr)); + /* delete the opts reserved in vm_config_groups list. */ + opts = qemu_opts_find(qemu_find_opts("chardev"), id); + if (opts) + qemu_opts_del(opts); } void qmp_chardev_send_break(const char *id, Error **errp) -- 1.8.3.1