On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:57:04AM -0700, Gavin Nicholson wrote: There's nothing either you or libvirt can do once you're in this situation. While the socket may still be visible in the filesystem any attempt by libvirt to connect() to that socket path will get ECONNREFUSED from the kernel. Once this happens the only option is for the process listening on the socket to close it and open a new listening socket. There's no mechanism to get QEMU to do this and even if one were to be written, it would still not help you as to use any updated QEMU you'd need to restart QEMU which is the problem you're already facing. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :|