Additional note: On 0.8.3 virsh itself hangs. On 0.9.12 I can get a virsh shell, but "list" there (or "virsh list" from bash) hangs. In both cases there's nothing displayed in the hang at all. I've found reports of "virsh list" hanging mid-list from certain instances of possibly misconfigured VMs. But there's not even the header of the listing making it to screen here. Whit On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 02:19:21PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote:
Both systems are Ubuntu 10.10, one with the stock libvirtd 0.8.3 and one with 0.9.12 compiled from source. They each brought up their autostart VMs okay. But I've got no working virsh shell on either now. The 0.9.12 host was, to complicate this report, okay with virsh initially, or "virsh list" anyway. But it hung with a "virsh start," and now "virsh list" fails too.