id = 1439
title = "QEMU crashes when there is an \"[accel]\" section in the config file"
state = "closed"
created_at = "2023-01-13T09:51:27.341Z"
closed_at = "2023-02-16T13:09:22.642Z"
labels = ["CLI", "kind::Bug", "workflow::In Progress"]
url = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1439"
host-os = "Linux"
host-arch = "x86"
qemu-version = "current master branch (commit 3db29dcac23da)"
guest-os = "n/a"
guest-arch = "n/a"
description = """QEMU crashes with a segmentation fault if there is a "[accel]" section in the config file with a type="kvm" entry. It would be maybe still be OK if there was an error message instead, but it should certainly not crash."""
reproduce = """```
$ cat > /tmp/config <<EOF
[accel]
type = "kvm"
EOF
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -readconfig /tmp/config
```"""
additional = "n/a"