[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#706069: virt-manager 0.9.1 hangs on "create new VM" over network connexion with 22 images within an active pool

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 08:00:10AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Package: virt-manager
> Version: 0.9.1-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When using virt-manager through ssh network connexion (120ms latency),
> with about 22 volumes in an active pool, virt-manager "create new VM"
> window hangs after about 5 seconds of interaction. While it is hung, the
> remote libvirt-bin server issues a lot of stat/open system calls on the
> volume's files (verified with strace). My remote libvirt-bin is a
> 0.9.8-2ubuntu17.8, running on Ubuntu 12.04.2. This issue appears to be
> fixed in virt-manager 0.9.4-2 (unstable), but given that 0.9.1-4
> (testing) has this issue, I think it might be worthwhile to consider
> backporting the fix. I tested the "vol-list" command though virsh, both
> locally (on the server), and through the network link: locally, it
> returns the listing almost immediately. Remotely, it takes about 5
> seconds to return the listing. It looks like virt-manager 0.9.1 issues a
> timeout too quickly on this command and retry endlessly, thus making the
> GUI hang. From a user point of view, having the GUI hanging starting
> from the 22nd pool image, depending on network latency and throughput,
> can be quite frustrating, as the cause of the hang is not easy to
> pinpoint.

Are you still seeing this with 1.0.1?
 -- Guido