This reads like satire
It is kinda crazy. It occurred to me that I should try to reproduce this on a physical Windows machine before I report to the QEMU guys. Could be a Windows flaw.
This isn't a Windows flaw since a guest shouldn't be able to crash the host.
My guess is this is either hardware related or tied to hardware. Are you using vfio at all? (PCIe pass though)
The host browser process crashed, not the host OS.
Are you sure the VM wasn't killed due to the host Firefox eating up all the ram?
If you can reproduce it, I would recommend filling a bug report with QEMU. If anything can crash the whole VM then there could be a security vulnerability that’s exploitable.
Good idea. Weirdly no errors in /var/log/libvirt/qemu/.log or in journalctl for libvirtd. Maybe devs can advise on other places to look.
Does it always happen over a certain number of tabs or was it just a one off?
It was reproducible. See post edit.
I've moved a dozen or so now doing them one at a time. No issues so far.
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