I am not able to test this properly (my host has "just" 32GiB of RAM), but I've patched qemu to insert some delay into its init process and it worked just fine. Michal Privoznik (2): virTimeBackOffWait: Avoid long periods of sleep qemu: Adaptive timeout for connecting to monitor src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c | 2 +- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.c | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- src/qemu/qemu_monitor.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_process.c | 8 ++++++++ src/util/virtime.c | 14 ++++++++++++-- tests/qemumonitortestutils.c | 1 + 6 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.11.0 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list