Hello, friends. I encounter a problem when i use ivshmem with my guest, my ivshmem server is not start, and output a error : Example code, do not use in production ,cannot bind. Detail distribution: Today, I know ivshmem from a topic "QEMU version 2.10.93 User Documentation", Ivshmem: it can create a shared memory that guest device use, so we can use this memory to do something ourselves. First, I create host memory backend: -object memory-backend-file,size=1M,share,mem-path=/dev/shm/ivshmem,id=hostmem Twice, Bind a shared memory device to my guest: -device ivshmem-plain,memdev=hostmem Then I boot ivshmem servi ivshmem-server -p /var/run/ivshmem-server.pid -S /tmp/ivshmem_socket -M ivshmem -m /dev/shm -l 1M -n 2 Next time i get this error: *** Example code, do not use in production *** cannot bind And i search the problem on google, but nothing to get, hope you can help me solve it. following message is my host environment: host: ubuntu 1604 qemu: version 2.10.90 (v2.11.0-rc0-dirty) libvirt: libvirtd (libvirt) 3.9.0 guest: window 7 professor Refer: https://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Inter_002dVM-Shared-Memory-device (topic qemu documention) https://helpmanual.io/help/ivshmem-server/ ( how to use ivshmem-server )