When removing the compat console from domain defintion, removing it from the vmdef->consoles array is good, but not sufficient. The console definition might have been fully allocated (after daemon restarted and reloaded the status XML). Use virDomainChrDefFree() to free also the definition. Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c index f517646c55..a6407f074b 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c @@ -1937,8 +1937,10 @@ qemuDomainChrRemove(virDomainDef *vmdef, return NULL; } - if (removeCompat) + if (removeCompat) { + virDomainChrDefFree(vmdef->consoles[0]); VIR_DELETE_ELEMENT(vmdef->consoles, 0, vmdef->nconsoles); + } return ret; } -- 2.39.2