Description of problem: NOTE that I'm using libvirt with Cole's not-yet-upstream patches to enable ARM & virtio-mmio support (the latest version is here: http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-August/msg01627.html ) Although I can add a virtio-scsi disk using a regular domain definition just fine, trying to hot-add a disk fails with the error: could not attach disk to libvirt domain: internal error: SCSI controller 0 was missing its PCI address [code=1 domain=10] A simple libguestfs-based reproducer is: $ guestfish run : add-drive /dev/null label:foo -v which, if you have all the right versions of libvirt, libguestfs, supermin & kernel installed and the Moon is in the right place will print: libguestfs: hot-add disk XML: <?xml version="1.0"?> <disk device="disk" type="file"> <source file="/home/rjones/d/libguestfs/tmp/libguestfspMZxoV/devnull2"/> <target dev="sdb" bus="scsi"/> <driver name="qemu" type="raw" cache="writeback"/> <serial>foo</serial> <address type="drive" controller="0" bus="0" target="1" unit="0"/> </disk> libguestfs: error: could not attach disk to libvirt domain: internal error: SCSI controller 0 was missing its PCI address [code=1 domain=10] libguestfs: closing guestfs handle 0x11a4e08 (state 2) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libvirt from git + Cole's ARM patches.
I tested this not too long ago and it worked for me, as long as the VM already had a virtio-scsi controller attached (I think we talked about this in a fedora qemu bug too)