The problem is described in [1] in more details. From libvirt perspective we have whole driver became unresponsive if connect to channel unix socket hangs during virDomainOpenChannel. This series address this by first using job for the API call and second by introducing connect timeout so that domain itself don't became unresponsive indefinetily. [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg03013.html Nikolay Shirokovskiy (3): util: virFDStreamConnectUNIX: add missing error report util: add 30s connection timeout to virFDStreamConnectUNIX qemu: use job to keep driver responsive on qemuDomainOpenChannel src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 11 ++++++++++ src/util/virfdstream.c | 18 +++++++++++++++ src/util/virutil.c | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ src/util/virutil.h | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 90 insertions(+) -- 1.8.3.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list