After the QEMU monitor filehandle has been successfully initialized, we then promptly close it ! It seems a 'return' statement accidentally got removed somewhere during previously refactoring. Second, the QEMU logfile does not have the close-on-exec flag set so the logfile is leaked to child processes. qemu_driver.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) Dan. -- |=- Red Hat, Engineering, Emerging Technologies, Boston. +1 978 392 2496 -=| |=- Perl modules: http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ -=| |=- Projects: http://freshmeat.net/~danielpb/ -=| |=- GnuPG: 7D3B9505 F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 -=|