Hello, I configured libvirtd with the sanlock lock manager plugin: # rpm -qa | egrep "libvirt-0|sanlock-[01]" libvirt-lock-sanlock-0.9.4-23.el6_2.4.x86_64 sanlock-1.8-2.el6.x86_64 libvirt-0.9.4-23.el6_2.4.x86_64 # egrep -v "^#|^$" /etc/libvirt/qemu-sanlock.conf auto_disk_leases = 1 disk_lease_dir = "/var/lib/libvirt/sanlock" host_id = 4 # mount | grep sanlock /dev/mapper/kvm--shared-sanlock on /var/lib/libvirt/sanlock type gfs2 (rw,noatime,hostdata=jid=0) # cat /etc/sysconfig/sanlock SANLOCKOPTS="-R 1 -o 30" I increased the sanlock io_timeout to 30 seconds (default = 10), because the sanlock dir is on a GFS2 volume and can be blocked for some time while fencing and journal recovery takes place. With the default sanlock io timeout, I get lease timeouts because IO is blocked: Mar 5 15:37:14 raiti sanlock[5858]: 3318 s1 check_our_lease warning 79 last_success 3239 Mar 5 15:37:15 raiti sanlock[5858]: 3319 s1 check_our_lease failed 80 So far, all fine, but when I restart sanlock and libvirtd, it takes about 2 * 30 seconds = 1 minute before libvirtd is usable. "virsh list" hangs during this time. I can still live with that... But it gets worse after a reboot, when running a "virsh list" even takes a couple of minutes (like about 5 minutes) before it responds. After this initial time, virsh is responding normally, so it looks like an initialization issue to me. Is this a configuration issue, a bug, or expected behavior? Thanks for any advice... Frido