x86: 0.992 architecture: 0.976 device: 0.966 peripherals: 0.946 ppc: 0.934 vnc: 0.918 graphic: 0.893 PID: 0.861 network: 0.823 i386: 0.820 kernel: 0.789 KVM: 0.788 files: 0.772 socket: 0.753 performance: 0.722 register: 0.713 boot: 0.711 permissions: 0.706 VMM: 0.688 user-level: 0.680 risc-v: 0.676 TCG: 0.658 mistranslation: 0.650 semantic: 0.645 hypervisor: 0.608 arm: 0.594 virtual: 0.551 debug: 0.477 assembly: 0.197 ohci doesn't check the 'num-ports' property command: qemu-system-x86_64 -m 1024 -enable-kvm /root/centos6.img -enable-kvm -device pci-ohci,num-ports=100,masterbus=1 The ohci doesn't check the 'num-ports' property and would case an out-of-bands write,crash the qemu process. ohci->num_ports = num_ports; if (masterbus) { USBPort *ports[OHCI_MAX_PORTS]; for(i = 0; i < num_ports; i++) { ports[i] = &ohci->rhport[i].port; } The version of qemu is 2.6.0 release from http://wiki.qemu-project.org/download/qemu-2.6.0.tar.bz2 I was able to reproduce the crash, and proposed now a fix on the qemu-devel mailing list (see https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/625092/ for details) The fix has been included in the repository: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=d400fc018b326104d26 Thanks for reporting the issue!