Forgot to mention that when I attached gdb to the qemu-kvm process before running the newfs in the guest, the crash does not happen Some sort of race condition? Thanks, Conor -- 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