KVM: Dialog shows "Error polling connection 'qemu:///system'"

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • On virtual machine manager of host, following dialog message was shown.
Error polling connection 'qemu:///system': internal error client socket is closed
  • This issue was recovered by reconnecting from virtual machine manager.
  • When clicking 'Detail', following messages were shown.
Error polling connection 'qemu:///system': internal error client socket is closed
Traceback (most recent call last): 
 File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/engine.py", line 440, in_tick conn.tick()
 File "/usr/share/virt-manager/virtManager/connection.py", line 1433, in tick self.hostinfo = self.vmm.getinfo()
 File "/usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/libvirt.py", line 3383, in getinfo if ret is None: raise libvirtError ('virNodeGetInfo() failed', conn=self)
libvirtError: internal error client socket is closed

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5
  • virt-manager-0.9.0-19.el6

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