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