Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] Commit 3a6c9 breaks QEMU on FreeBSD/Xen

[Peter Maydell]

On 26 January 2017 at 20:47, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 26 January 2017 at 19:36, Stefano Stabellini <address@hidden> wrote:
>> It should be just a matter of replacing qdev_init_nofail with something
>> that can fail. I couldn't find a regular qdev_init that can return
>> error, so maybe we would need to add it.
>
> That's just
>     object_property_set_bool(OBJECT(whatever), true, "realized", &err);
>
> ie "please realize the device".

(PS watch out for ownership refcounting issues depending on what
you did with parenting the device: you likely want to object_unparent()
and then object_unref() the thing in the error-exit path. See
qdev_device_add() for some example code, maybe.)

-- PMM