I think I've found a bug when running a guest with vhost with less than 4GB of RAM. If a guest has less than 4GB of RAM, then above_4g_mem_size is 0 for this call to cpu_register_physical_memory() in pc_memory_init() from hw/pc.c:922 #if TARGET_PHYS_ADDR_BITS > 32 cpu_register_physical_memory(0x100000000ULL, above_4g_mem_size, ram_addr + below_4g_mem_size); #endif this leads to vhost_client_set_memory being called with size == 0 #3 0x00000000004301f3 in vhost_client_set_memory (client=0x113b010, start_addr=4294967296, size=0, phys_offset=3221225472) at /home/cam/research/KVM/qemu-kvm/hw/vhost.c:312 which trips the assert at hw/vhost.c:312 static void vhost_client_set_memory(CPUPhysMemoryClient *client, target_phys_addr_t start_addr, ram_addr_t size, ram_addr_t phys_offset) { ...<snip>... assert(size); ... something like the following fixes the problem but I'm not sure if it's the proper way to handle it. diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c index 5e9a5b7..991abfc 100644 --- a/exec.c +++ b/exec.c @@ -2592,7 +2592,9 @@ void cpu_register_physical_memory_offset(target_phys_addr_t start_addr, ram_addr_t orig_size = size; subpage_t *subpage; - cpu_notify_set_memory(start_addr, size, phys_offset); + if (size > 0) { + cpu_notify_set_memory(start_addr, size, phys_offset); + } if (phys_offset == IO_MEM_UNASSIGNED) { region_offset = start_addr; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html