Virt-manager and guest window stop reacting after some time-out

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Jul 5 18:10:08 UTC 2023


On 7/4/23 10:48 AM, Leon Pollak wrote:
> Hello.
> After upgrading to FC38 I have the following problem:
> After some time of inactivity (working in other windows in my FC38 KDE
> machine), returning to the virt-manager (4.1.0) and guest window does
> not happen. I see the window capture displaying "Virtual Machine
> Manager" or the name of my VM, but nothing happens.
> I still can switch back to the host machine.
> If I run "systemctl restart libvirtd", close all windows and run
> virt-manager again, after providing the root password everything
> returns to its normal state - the guest continues to run (from the
> same place), manager is working normally.
> Till the next "time-out" which is rather "long" - about 10-15 minutes.
> 
> Does someone know what to do in such a case?
> 

It's probably this systemd regression, it's hitting lots of libvirt
users right now: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2213660

- Cole



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