I encountered a problem after removing a USB flash drive using virtual machine manager, I notice that the core assigned to the VM guest goes up to 100% load. Within the guest itself, there is no significant activity.
This also prompted me to look at the other physical machine from which I used the USB flash drive to transfer files. And it was also exhibiting the same problem.
Installed versions are qemu-kvm-0.12.1.2-2.209.el6_2.5.x86_64 on CentOS 6.2, 2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64 (Intel C204 PCH)
There are no error messages in the log files and things seem to be working except for the fully loaded core.
After some testing, the only steps needed are 1. VMM add physical host usb device -> select storage to guest 2. VMM remove hardware 3. Physically remove the USB storage from the host, thread/core assigned to guest goes 100%
Repeating the same steps without restarting the guest causes cpu utilization to drop back to normal for about a second or so before going back up again.
Problem goes away if I restart the guest. There don't seem to be anything related on RHEL bugtrack except one related to hotplug/unplugging a USB controller more than 1000 times.
Is this is a bug or there is actually something else I am supposed to do before removing a physical device from a guest?
Also is there anyway I get the core/thread back to normal without restarting the guest?