The qemu shim spawns a separate thread in which the event loop is ran. The virEventRunDefaultImpl() call is wrapped in a while() loop, just like it should. There are few lines of code around which try to ensure that domain is destroyed (when quitting) and that the last round of event loop is ran after the virDomainDestroy() call. Only after that the loop is quit from and the thread quits. Well, if creating the domain failed then the thread is stuck inside event loop forever. Resolves: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1920337 Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/qemu/qemu_shim.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_shim.c b/src/qemu/qemu_shim.c index c10598df4b..21a24abade 100644 --- a/src/qemu/qemu_shim.c +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_shim.c @@ -45,9 +45,12 @@ qemuShimEventLoop(void *opaque G_GNUC_UNUSED) while (!quit) { g_mutex_lock(&eventLock); if (eventQuitFlag && !eventPreventQuitFlag) { + quit = true; if (dom) { virDomainDestroy(dom); - quit = true; + } else { + g_mutex_unlock(&eventLock); + break; } } g_mutex_unlock(&eventLock); -- 2.26.2