From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [PATCH qemu-server] verify device removal: mention that device might still be busy in guest on failure
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:38:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260213153836.142466-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)
A very likely reason for a device removal to time out is if the device
is still busy in the guest. In particular, as reported in [0], Windows
does not release a VirtIO block device when there is ongoing IO.
Increasing the timeout was considered, but during testing, either the
device was removed very quickly or not at all, so waiting longer can
be pointless and annoying.
[0]: https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/issues/1483#issuecomment-3897226530
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
---
src/PVE/QemuServer.pm | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm b/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
index 5d2dbe03..c2564f1f 100644
--- a/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
+++ b/src/PVE/QemuServer.pm
@@ -4129,7 +4129,7 @@ sub qemu_devicedelverify {
sleep 1;
}
- die "error on hot-unplugging device '$deviceid'\n";
+ die "error on hot-unplugging device '$deviceid' - still busy in guest?\n";
}
sub qemu_findorcreatescsihw {
--
2.47.3
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