An alternative solution that only adds the chardev to the definition after the command succeeded. Ján Tomko (2): Split qemuDomainChrInsert into two parts hotplug: only add a chardev to vmdef after monitor call src/conf/domain_conf.c | 18 ++++++++-- src/conf/domain_conf.h | 7 ++-- src/libvirt_private.syms | 3 +- src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 88 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 4 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) -- 2.0.5 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list