After attach-device a <hostdev> with --config, new device doesn't show up in dumpxml and in guest. To fix that, set dev->data.hostdev = NULL after work so that the pointer is not freed, since vmdef has the pointer and still need it. Signed-off-by: Chunyan Liu <cyliu(a)suse.com&gt; --- src/libxl/libxl_driver.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c index e2797d5..8087c27 100644 --- a/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c +++ b/src/libxl/libxl_driver.c @@ -3312,6 +3312,7 @@ libxlDomainAttachDeviceConfig(virDomainDefPtr vmdef, virDomainDeviceDefPtr dev) if (virDomainHostdevInsert(vmdef, hostdev) < 0) return -1; + dev->data.hostdev = NULL; break; default: -- 1.8.5.6