Are there any recommendations as to how often a new connection should be made versus reused? Right now we create a new connection every time we hit libvirt for something. We can easily change this so that a single connection is made for a series of libvirt calls, or even so that a single connection is used for the lifetime of the running application.

What are the issues to consider when making these choices?

We are connecting to qemu:///system.

Thank you.

.:. brainsik