Re: [libvirt-users] failing connections w/ virt-manager

For virt-manager and virt-viewer it is better to use virt-tools-list [1], but the first issue you've reported isn't related to this, so I'm not Cc'ing it there.

Check the logs. You can set them according to a guide on logging [2] that we have, because by default, I guess, you don't have debug logs enabled. There will be *a lot* of noise, so try to filter unimportant ones.

And about the "firewall tools", you definitely want the "virt-network" use flag enabled. This is also not related to the problem you're having, but will save you a lot of headache. Try enabling the flag, re-emerging the package, setting the logs and then reproduce it again. Check the logs and you should see why it's disconnecting.